Cooking Adventures

Trying to be a chef musings: (i.e. Note to self....and apparently the world): 1) Invest in a large stock pot. All kitchens should have big sturdy stock pots. Obviously, if every tv chef has one, it must be an important part of the cooking process. Duh.
2) When looking off of someone else's recipe for the first time follow all directions. For instance, if they say use only 1/2 a pound of ground beef, use 1/2 a pound of ground beef instead of thinking "oh no, that is simply not enough imma make it a pound and then get stuck with so much stuffing that I have to now find recipes for ground beef raw rice mixture because I don't want to make mahsih for the third night in a row" DON'T make ingredient adjustments until after the first try. DUH