Food Doesn't Have to be Fancy or Hard to Make to be Delicious
You Really Can Make Great Dinners and Snacks

My boys always beg me to cut the peanut butter fudge in squares and save back some, because they know the dish will come home empty from a pot luck dinner. It’s nice to be known as a great cook and for folks to ask for the recipes. In fact, I enjoy cooking so much and helping others get the dishes just perfect that I started this web site where anyone can learn to cook...

Love to Hear Cooking Success Stories

It really made my day when one of my son's teachers said she stumbled across one of my recipes online. She told my son that she almost always ruined things when she tried to make an online recipe. Mine turned out great, and she said the extra tips really helped. That's what I figured. It's the little details that get you (and ruin your recipes).

I've found, over the years, that most great cooks leave out important things in recipes. I'm sure they just figure everyone knows the basics. I was reading some questions over at Yahoo Answers (fun online spot). Some girl was trying to make chicken salad, but she was confused about the "cooked chicken" part. She wasn't sure how to cook chicken for chicken salad. More experienced cooks will know that you can just boil your chicken and then take it off the bone and break it up. I sure hope that chicken salad turned out good and that the girl got her chicken cooked.

Sometimes it Takes a Little Research or Looking Over the Cook's Shoulder

In some cases I've offered to help someone make a dish to find out the little extras that can make all the difference. I had to do that to figure out Granny's crab cakes. She gave me directions with a dash and a pinch. We had very different ideas on those amounts. I just watched and helped (plus washed the dishes). After that, I worked on the crab cakes and kept track of the exact amounts. That made all the difference.

Look around. Find a recipe. Give it a try. With good directions and tips, you'll find that cooking really isn't all that hard. Once you get a recipe or recipes down, you can play around and add your own personal touches. That's when it gets really fun!

For some easy recipes and some more complicated but with careful directions and tips, just click on my Yes You Can Cok Site Map at the top. That will show you the full list of recipes with more added all the time.