18 Dishes Every Adult Should Know How to Make (2024)

How does an article dated 2 days ago have comments tagged as from over a year ago?

FWIW, adults cook with recipes.

Smaug September 6, 2016

I must say this list was something of a surprise- I was expecting stuff like "bread" and "gravy", or maybe "salad dressing".

John November 30, 2015

What a interesting cookies recipe. I have to make this recipe as soon as possible. Yummy.

Bob November 30, 2015

These recipes are the best, absolutely number one.

John November 30, 2015

How I love these recipes, I can't wait to make that delicious veggie burger.

mouth-watering food pics on this page :)
I need to make that burrito so I can eat it right now!

An asian wrote this Anglo centric list, try visiting the majority of the worlds population... fried rice, a curry, a brothy soup...

I hate not a recipe recipes. I don't mean to be negative. But, I look at a recipe to see a flavor combination I might not necessarily think of. I read comments and see how others have adapted it. I figure out how I want to do it. We all realize that a recipe is not etched in stone and know how to change it so it works for us.

If its good eat it I say. I think everyone should know how to cook. I am a grad school student that is older so yeah my picky eating self make very off the wall food that people think I was taught to cook. I was not lol. Everyone doesn't leave college meet a cook and get married , so people learn how to cook. These are very easy things to cook, but at the same time people have different takes on things so it may not be to come. I like to eat but cooking is boring to me. Can I do it, yes I wasn't taught per se it was more of just dos and do not do!!! rules of cooking. If you are a foodie try to make those same things at home and as I do. The cool modern cookbooks are decor more than a reference. This is why I use this site lol .

It is too funny (/coincidental?) that a page that titled Cook like an Adult has stuffed chicken on its butt as the banner picture. Sorry, I just have to comment...

I'm one of those weird ones that almost always wants some sort of recipe to look at, even if I only follow 1 or 2 things from it in the end. Whether it's a temperature or a ratio of solids to liquids, I just like having a visual reference point.
I wish I could anonymously send this to an old roommate of mine, who when we lived together (post college), didn't even know how to fry an egg or cook pasta. Seriously. She mostly lived off of canned tuna and canned chili. Teaching her how to fry the egg was a HUGE step.