Time Management: A simple skill to improve any home cook.

As professional and home cooks there is one weapon in our arsenal that is absolutely essential. This one simple thing can save many meals from disaster, and that is time management. When cooking at home it's easy to become distracted by things going on around you and lose track of things like timers, guests arriving, and other essential deadlines. This isn't limited only to home cooks, but happens frequently in professional kitchens as well. 

This video while not only about home cooking lays out many details about time management when it comes to meal prep.

One of the easiest ways to manage your time in the kitchen at home is to sit down before cooking and lay out a game plan, and lay out everything from preheating the oven to putting the food on the plate and taking it to the table. Below I have listed an example dinner agenda or time management table that anyone can use for nearly any recipe.

Now this is by no means the only way to do things, but this type of planning has proven to be absolutely invaluable to me both as a professional cook and as a home cook. With time management and some simple skills that I'll share along the way in this blog cooking can be a fun and exciting way to improve your life, and may spark a new passion.