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Become the best in your cooking
For Destiny Magazine

By Vanessa Lebepe

Cooking has become an everyday language for us as humans. Cooking may be an activity for one but a passion for the other. Cooking may also help bring people together, in their homes, churches and other occasions, which is why one should consider becoming great at it and improve at it. It is very important for a woman to know her work in the kitchen, and to strive to become the best at it.

As women we know that some women take cooking very seriously that they even make it their profession, they make a living out of cooking, whereas some just cook because they are bound to cook for their husbands and children and some just cook for the fun of it. Mrs Vongani Baloyi is an expert in this field, she has her own catering business which she has started herself because of her love for cooking. She has been in the business for 9 years and her business is really doing well because of her love for it. She has cooked at weddings, birthdays, government events all over Gauteng and other areas, "it is my passion and I make sure I enjoy every moment", said Mrs Baloyi.

Becoming a great cook cannot just be an easy road whereby one just wakes up great at it, you need to put your all into the task of becoming great at it, Mrs Baloyi agrees with this as an expert, she commented that it is really not easy, that she had to wake up very early every day and sleep very late as well, and this has become a benefit for her at the end as she’s an expert at it now. "It’s an inspiration, it’s the love I have for people and food", she said. So clearly cooking is not consideration for you only but for other people as well.www.cookinglight.com/food/simple-ways-to-becom-better-cook

Becoming the best at it requires dedication and commitment to the task, here are some tips on how to become to improve and become the best in your cooking:
Love what you are doing: first of all, when you cook, do not cook because you are forced to or because it’s a tradition that a women should be in the kitchen not men, you must therefore cook because you love what you are doing, in that way your food will turn out great, "you must love your food and love the people you are cooking for", Mrs Baloyi adds.
Research your food: when cooking, you need to know what you are doing, when, where and how, which is why research is very important before cooking. Research will help with good recipes and will help you stop mixing everything together and not knowing what you are doing, by research one can consider viewing other recipes on the internet, reading cooking books, communicating with other cooking experts etc.
Be a people’s person: when cooking, other people should be considered because they are the ones who are cooking your food. Make sure you know what your people like and what they want to eat so that you mustn’t cook only for yourself but for others. Talk to other cooks as well, that is very important because you will gain more knowledge
Be innovative: if you want to become a great cook you also need to be very innovative, u need to be open minded and creative. Create new dishes and recipes and try them, do not just rely on other sources only because that will not help you grow, you must change what you have been cooking and try new things, change the regulars.read more
So hopefully these tips will be considered and practiced in order for progress to occur, cooking is not as bad, boring, tiring as some people may think it is, all you have to to is enjoy it and put an effort if you really want to be great at it.