Cook Up A Storm

While it's all well and good that some chefs are willing to teach New Yorkers how to cook in their kitchens, there is an unfortunate reality: The tiny kitchen. Or even the big kitchen but with one foot of counter space and gross appliances your landlord won't replace. So for those of you with tiny kitchens, with refrigerators that only hold varieties of alcohol, tonic water, and leftovers, we give you the Gothamist list of recipes for cooking:
- Hangover Helper: Saltines
- Weight Watchers Frozen Meals: To keep track of those points!
- Baby spinach in a bag: Lots of vitamins, can be eaten raw or wilted in a pan with a splash of water
- Prepared chocolate chip cookie dough
- Menupages
If you really want to cook, you can stock up on food from FreshDirect. Unless, of course, you live in Lockhart Steele's neck of the woods.

The Times has a list of chefs and cooking schools for private lessons. If you want to spend that money on some new kitchen appliances or fancy foods, Gothamist suggets working as a kitchen assistant for cooking classes at the New School, where you basically get to attend a class, by helping the teachers and students throughout the lesson and meal and cleaning up at the end. It's like working at a restaurant and it's free.

Contact the author of this article or email tips@gothamist.com with further questions, comments or tips.

By Jen Chung in Food on February 4, 2004 10:15 AM

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Smiley

Edemame is another easy and yummy snack, don't forget the sea salt!

Jen

I love to cook and do cook in my small kitchen. I was just feeling envy for the huge, Viking stove-d kitchen in the Times article.

And Dahl - just contact the culinary arts department and tell them you want to be a kitchen assistant. You'll get a manual of procedures and stuff. ASk them to pair you with someone who has been an assistant before so you can be guided by someone.

dahl

so how does one go about becoming a ta? i'm such a sucker for the cheap way.

corie

It is totally possible to cook in a tiny kitchen. I am living proof. You just have to WANT to cook.

astrid

Hah! I am totally all about the baby spinach in the bag. You can do anything with it -- put it in a salad, put it in omelettes, stirfry, put in on a sandwich, put it in pasta sauce... etc. The list goes on.

I just wish that spinach didn't cook down to nothing. It looks like there's so much in the bag... but it's not that much when you cook it.