This website has 12 easy recipes for beginners that want to step their game up in cooking.
Here is a recipe I found in from the website above, pasta is one of the dishes that I could cook quite well. My best so far is the simple pasta Aglio e olio. It’s a simple pasta that only needs garlic, olive oil, parsley, pepper, salt and some chilli flakes. But I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and try other pasta dishes that are more complicated. For example, making my own sauce with crushed tomatoes. Or even ones that require multiple parts and recipes like this beef pasta I found.
Both mac&cheese and pasta Aglio e olio have the whole greater than the sum of its parts. I also wanted to make my own mac and cheese because all the previous mac and cheese that I’ve made have been the store-bought Kraft Dinner ones. Those are good and sometimes I would do things differently than what is said on the box instructions. For example, adding butter instead of margarine, or adding spices that aren’t listed in the instructions. Now I want to attempt my own mac and cheese without the store-bought recipe. I don’t think it will be very difficult as things are all simple, but it might take a while to make everything perfect and taste good.