1. Food & Drink

Cooking Lessons and Email Classes

Whether you are a beginning cook or an expert, everyone can learn more about cooking. Learn the science behind cooking and baking, find step by step directions about working with different ingredients and appliances, learn how to shop and organize, and sign up for email cooking courses.
  1. Cooking Methods (6)
  2. Email Classes (27)
  3. Glossary (46)
  4. How to Bake (50)
  5. How to Cook (50)
  6. Learn About Food Safety (3)
  7. Step by Step (16)

Busy Cooks How Tos

These step by step instructions will teach you how to do everything from fillet a fish to frost a cake.

How to Read a Recipe

How to read a recipe teaches you, step by step, how to understand instructions and ingredient lists in baking and cooking recipes. Learn how to read a recipe.

Meal Planning

Learn how to plan a meal using pantry staples, what's in your freezer, and what is in season and on sale at the grocery store. How to plan a meal.

Stock Your Kitchen

Basic list of kitchen equipment needed to start cooking. Kitchen utensils, tools, and equipment you need to start baking.

Basic Cooking Lessons

Basic Cooking Lesson starts at the very beginning of cooking and teaches you how to be a great cook in individual lessons. Baking and cooking lessons, how to measure, food safety information, how to make pie crust, and more.

Basics of Cooking Lesson Series

Learn a new cooking skill, brush up on your cooking techniques, or start at the very beginning in the kitchen with this series of cooking lessons at Busy Cooks.

How to Grocery Shop

Everyone needs to shop for groceries. Learn how to compare prices, get the best value for your money, and avoid impulse buying traps that are designed right into your local supermarket.

Busy Cooks History

Searching for easy and delicious recipes? Learn about the history of quick cooking, starting with World War II and the Pillsbury Bake-Off.

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