Follow the Directions!
A beginning cook should always follow a recipe when trying to make a new dish. When you have more experience, though, substituting to your liking can be a great way to perfect recipe. Although people sometimes feel the recipes are optional, in fact, they can be very useful. Professional chefs will use recipes when learning a new dish, or even when something they are cooking seems not to be correct.
One great way to help with following the directions is to use pennies or some other small item to help you keep track of the number of cups of an item that you put into the bowl. Maven Carol does this every time she bakes her famous zucchini bread, even after hundreds of loaves! Doing this will help make sure you get the dish exactly as it was intended!
With some people, the main problem in reading a recipe is that they do not know how. Click Here to see a sample recipe and how to read it. As long as you are following the directions, you are going to end up getting a great dish!
