What to do with leftover lasagna noodles  Newbie cooks are
notoriously fearful of making mistakes in the kitchen. I know I
was when I was just starting to learn because my mother was
always breathing down my neck about the cost of food and how
mistakes often meant waste. Good thing that, with a lot of
encouragement from my father, I was quite the little rebel and I
experimented anyway AND learned from my mistakes. Had I not, I
might have turned out to be just like my mother who couldn’t
tell broiled from baked.  Other newbie cooks are less concerned
about wasted food than they are about the perceived humiliation
that comes with failure. The most obvious result is a lack of
gumption to be adventurous. Instead, to stay on the safe path,
newbie cooks tend to follow recipes to the letter. If it says
one teaspoonful of salt in the ingredients list, that is the
exact amount that they will add to the pot, not even remotely
entertaining the thought that taste is largely a personal thing
and what may be too salty for