The Cooking Educational Program

It's bad enough that university or college life could be stressful and full of pressures due to the large amount of academic tasks that you have to do, but it is aggravated by the fast food and other junk foods that you have to eat because you don't have enough time to prepare and cook healthy meals. I should know because I used to be like that. But now, thanks to the advice from my parents and from the information I got from reading various books and other reading materials about easy to cook recipe methods of healthy meals, I have healthy eating habits. I also noticed that I am more focused in the way I study and learn due to the healthy meals that I eat, which I prepare and cook myself.

Since most students are busy with their academic tasks, preparing and cooking a meal that is easy and healthy is essential. I have learned that pasta meals are main course meals that are not just easy to prepare and cook, but they could give you a feeling of fullness so that you really feel satisfied after eating a pasta meal.

An example of an easy to cook and healthy pasta dish is pasta with tuna that only takes at least 20 minutes to prepare and cook. For the ingredients, you would need: four ounces of long pasta; one tablespoon of olive oil; one chopped garlic clove; a small can of  flaked tuna, drained; two tablespoons of dried parsley; one tablespoon of tomato sauce; four flour ounces of chicken stock; and salt and black pepper.

1. Heat the oil in a pan, add the chopped garlic, fry for two minutes until it is soft. Add the tuna, tomato sauce, chicken stock, salt and pepper, and simmer for two minutes.

2. Boil salted water in a large pan, add the pasta, and cook for 10 to 12 minutes until the pasta is tender.

3. When the pasta is tender, placed it in a colander and drain it well. Then, put the pasta in a large place, add the tuna mixture and mix it well. Now, it is ready to serve and eat.

Being able to measure accurately is considered as the most important skill in cooking. Housewives, cooking enthusiasts and chefs who are in training allot many hours to testing recipes with varying measurements through the tolerance testing process. The goal is for the recipe to still taste good even though the amount of ingredients are varied; if a particular recipe fails this test, it is not published or released for mass consumption. However, even if the recipes you would find in cookbooks and websites are able to tolerate variations in the measuring of ingredients, the cook will still have to follow the basic rules of measuring.

Make sure you have actual commercial measuring utensils. For dry ingredients, use graduated or nested measuring cups and measuring spoons. For liquid ingredients, a clear glass or plastic cup with a pouring spout is most ideal. Here are some tips for measuring common ingredients:

· Flour, Baking Power or Baking Soda. Use a large spoon to lightly spoon flour from its container into the measuring cup. Refrain from shaking the cup and packing the flour. With the use of the back of a knife or flat blade spatula, level the flour with the top edge of the measuring cup. Do not use the measuring cup itself to scoop the flour out of the container as you may end up with way, way more of the correct measurement.
· Sugar. Use a cup or measuring spoon to scoop it out of the container or bag until it is overflowing. Then, level this off with the back of a knife.