Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.
The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.
Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.
Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.
I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.
I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.
I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.
I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.