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Course Description
Are you ready to take charge of your kitchen? Have you been thinking about cooking up a new recipe but not sure where to start? Is your spouse complaining that they are tired of eating out all of the time?
If you answered yes, to the above questions, then you are going to enjoy Cooking for the Beginner. This course will teach you the basics of cooking. We will learn how to safely move around in a kitchen and to be able to stock our kitchen full of the basic cooking essentials. Students will get the opportunity to learn new and easy to prepare recipe's along with learning cooking terms and knowing which utensils to use when prepping a meal.
If you are ready to learn how to cook but just not sure where to start, then join us today and begin cooking a home cooked meal in minutes (while having fun too)!
Course Lessons
Lesson 1: Setting Up A Cook's Kitchen
This lesson will provide a breakdown of the supplies that will be needed to begin working in their kitchen. We will touch on the tool caddy and tools, types of knives,pots and pans, cutting boards, even the kind of towels to have on han
Lesson 2: Stocking Your Pantry
One of the wisest things that a cook could do would be to have a working pantry in the home. We will go into what needs to be stocked in the pantry. We will explore places to put a pantry and how to save money stocking a pantry.
Lesson 3: Safety In The Kitchen
Food safety should be your prime concern when you go into the kitchen. Preventing cuts and burns should also be a priority. We will learn common-sense approaches to safety in the kitchen.
Lesson 4: Breakfast Anyone?
Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day. This lesson will tell you the basics of preparing eggs, pancakes, bacon, and coffee. All of these dishes can be prepared so many different ways and a cook can gauge how much fat content will be u
Lesson 5: Dad, What's For Lunch
Lunch is a time that you want to prepare in a hurry but yet have a tasty meal for everyone. We will prepare a warm weather and a cold weather meal. So let's get started.
Lesson 6: Mom. What's For Dinner?
We will learn in this lesson how to take help from the grocery store and how to plan our dinner menu, along with recipes for that menu.
Lesson 7: Tips, Questions And Answers For New Cooks
This lesson will attempt to answer some of the questions about cooking that I have been asked in the past. It will also provide you with tips on the most common chore in the kitchen-prep work.
Optional Certificates Awarded
In addition to the standard Certificate of Course Completion, Merit Awards may be issued by the instructor at his/her own discretion and are based on student achievement. Merit awards also incur an additional $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and delivery of the award, as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Portfolio Service that documents your achievements online. Official Merit Awards have a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award (great for employers to verify your achievement).
This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment.
This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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