Intro to Learning Project: Discovering the Art of Home Cooking and Baking!

For my learning project for this class I have decided to do cooking and baking! I had a few ideas but I needed my project to be something that could fit into my schedule easily that I wouldn’t have to stress too much about. To me this is learning how to cook and bake. Where I’m at right now is I pretty much cook simple things like frozen dinners in the air fryer or easy crockpot dinners that I can throw together. Sometimes I’ll make soup or a recipe from my mom, something that isn’t too complicated. I have recently started eating out more with friends a few times a week which is not a good habit to get into so this project will push me to challenge myself to set aside plenty of time to bake and cook foods, meals, desserts, snacks and all sorts of other things. I do have some experience and enjoy cooking and baking, I just simply get lazy some days or don’t make the time for it along with everything else in my life.

My goal is to find cool recipes to follow off all sorts of resources like Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, family recipes and any others I can find on the internet. I hope to challenge myself to  make 1 meal and 1 desert each week to document. While I’ll only be documenting a couple of the cooking/baking I make each week, I am going to try to make as many meals at home so that I can also be eating healthier during this project also, rather than getting take out. 

I found a few apps that have many recipes, one of the free ones I found is called NYT cooking (New York Times Cooking – recipes and tips). I will be trying different recipes off this app and even others to find different recipes. I also hope after a few weeks to try some foods from other cultures to expand my learning on cooking and baking while learning some traditional foods from some other cultures!