Girl's Guide to Basic Cooking

Cooking is easy to achieve once you know the basics.

A Girl’s Guide To Basic Cooking is the essential reference guide to simple home cooing and contains 25 easy step-by-step recipes for the young teenager or adult who wants to learn to cook starting with the basics.

Aimed at the novice it will show you everything you need to know to get started in the kitchen—from boiling rice and scrambling eggs to making stock and gravy—it covers all the basics and is suitable for anyone who is new to cooking.

The recipes are simple and full of tips and techniques and instructions on how to make the basic dish following a recipe.

Lesley Pagett

Lesley, mother of three, is a passionate home cook who loves making and sharing meals and recipes with family and friends. This collection of recipes is the result of that passion to teach others the basics they'll need in the kitchen so they can prepare budget-friendly, quick and easy weeknight meals or classic family recipes.

Many of Lesley's recipes have been handed down by her mother and her grandmother, and there is a recipe to satisfy everyone’s taste.

With her years of experience fine-tuning her skills as a member of a gourmet-cooking club, she learned how to cook on a budget and feed a family as a working mother.