This is a poorly written, disorganized, and mostly useless cookbook. There will be no measurements provided, cause everything is by feeling. Because getting 90% of the way there with 10% of the effort is worthwhile 200% of the time. The focus is mostly on Chinese dishes, since that's what I primarily cook, but the principles and techniques I hope are generally applicable.
what's the motivation for writing this?
My wife thinks I cook pretty well, and so do other people who've had my food. But it's hard for me to give out recipes because I basically have none, I just have broad strokes of what to do when making a dish. So, I've compiled my style, laziness, and experiences as a homecook for the past few years into this blunt cookbook.
who is this for?
- Anyone who doesn't have measuring tools in the kitchen
- Anyone who is lazy
- Anyone who only needs food that's good enough most of the time
who isn't this for?
- Anyone trying to be a serious cook
- Anyone who enjoys cooking
- Anyone who actually needs to learn something
how should you go about reading this cookbook?
- Start with cooking with feelings. This sets the stage for the rest of the book and will help you determine whether you will find the cookbook legitimately useful.
- After that, check out some more principles. These principles help you get a better grasp of overall cooking (hopefully).
- Then, read some recipes. Again, no measurements included here, just broad strokes of what I do.
- Techniques may also be helpful here and there, but will likely be referenced as needed from different sections of the book.
- Tags group articles based on the general concepts that each article touches on. You can treat it like a concordance.
If you're sticking around to read after dealing with all that sarcasm, I'm truly honored—thank you so much! If you gain something valuable after all the rambling about feelings, I'm honestly surprised—consider buying me some food via Venmo: @Zhijiang-Li.
Also, feel free to contact me! Or submit a bug on github.