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@pagan8th like @sundancer said : start simple

Spaghetti (or any form of pasta) is stupendously simple to make. All you really need is some kind of sauce.
There’s also subscription services like ‘Hello Fresh’ and ‘Marley Spoon’ that are useful as they give you all the ingredients and the instructions to use them. It’s not perfect and pretty expensive, but even a short subscription will teach you a few things.

The most annoying thing about cooking meals is that everything tends to cater to (large) families. Even recipes tend to aim for 4 grown ups. However there are cook books that focus on students which can be useful.

Oh … and ‘SMAC’ (I think in English it’s “spam”, processed meat in a tin) is quite good. Chop it in cubes and it makes for a nice add-on to pasta with some pre-made pasta sauce. Or throw in a pack of mushrooms and you got yourself a nice meal with very little effort (I think under 30 minutes, but I never checked total time myself).

Funny thing is that I’ve never used salt in any of my meals. My only real spice is (black) pepper. Oh … and garlic.
I’m probably using it wrong, because I can rarely taste I had used it so I’m always tempted to add more.

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I got all my stuff at my new house now. We needed a total of 2,5 days. Today the washing machine was moved to its proper place and we moved as many boxes into the attic as I had acquired more stuff than I had realised 😀
If I had to do that last bit myself I probably would need all of next year to finish as I’d be tempted to open all boxes before even thinking of moving them one inch.

Today I can finally relax. Next year there will be more hobby to do and a proper space for hobby.