There's no limit to food "hacks", easy, general combinations that generally work. They're usually filling and healthy, but also boring and unsatisfactory. My "

There's no limit to food "hacks", easy, general combinations that generally work. They're usually filling and healthy, but also boring and unsatisfactory. My "recipe", YMMV: 1: Get someone to eat with. It an anti-climax to think "I really nailed this dish" and then eat it alone in front of the TV. Do a "food-club" with a friend or something, it doesn't have to be every day. 2: Make room in your freezer/get a freezer/get a larger freezer. A LOT of very nice food freezes brilliantly. Full freezer = zero effort fast food. 3: Figure out what you want to cook and then go for it. It might be childhood comfort foods, it might be a killer burger, it might be something you got at a restaurant. Research. Google for recipes and read different variations, try to get a feel for where they differ. Be vary of user generated contents. A "great" recipe can be anything from "OMG I can make (something that vaguely resembles) Burritos in my own kitchen" to "give my first-born". Read different variations, try to get a feel for where they differ. Finally, remember, a recipe is only half way there (if even that far), which brings us to: 4: Iterate. Taste, critique, try again with something a little different. Obviously not every day, but keep coming back to it. Explore the differences in recipes from step three. Randomly switch out ingredients, get a feeling for what can substitute for what. Your goal is not to cook a dish so it comes out exactly as the person who wrote the recipe imagined (because that's really hard to find out), it's to cook a dish you really like. Ask. You probably have someone who's a food-geek around who'll be happy to help you figure out why something doesn't come out as you wanted.