Home and Living general advice thread

my trite statement is that arming your kitchen with sauces and spices will go a long way towards making cheap food attractive to your food hole, and vegetables palatable so that you can keep yourself alive

also there is this budget cookbook pdf that actually has food that you would enjoy eating

as for learning how to cook, the magic of internet videos makes things a lot easier to understand and every dang person with a camera and a kitchen seems to be clamoring for your attention these days

i would put forth onions next to garlic as another thing that is both cheap and makes things very appetizing

(would second chicken powder as an easy way to fill out flavor profiles of dishes that you aren't putting meat in but are still not vegetarian, but you should use it carefully and try not to overdo it)

unrelated statement: if you are looking for pie tutorials, the King Arthur Flour company devotes a terrifying amount of researchers to pie science and technique, among other baking things

you can ease into brown rice a bit easier (especially if it's in a rice cooker) by SOAKING IT before you cook it, at least a few hours, and after one successful batch you'll be wondering how people managed to screw it up at all