Salt little and early, so the salt has time to work its' way into the food. Always keep your knives sharp. Most of cooking is mood-based for me so I'm barely measuring, I balance through taste lol Oh and invest in sauces and spice mixes. Sometimes you forget that something has no heat and a dash of dried garlic pepper mix fixes it up faster than frantically chopping and stirring in at that late stage.
Kurt Vonnegut style: When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
