I'm looking for websites, particular webpages, Youtube channels, etc.
I'm about to google this stuff but I'd still like suggestions to help me just do it and make sauces myself for basic sauces like sweet and sour, tikka masala, butter chicken, curry (many kinds).
I've started to make most of my meals in a Dutch oven. I throw frozen vegetables in there along with some kind of frozen meat and cook it all for ~45 minutes.
The next thing for me to do is make sauces myself.
It's only very recently that I finally cured myself of my Pavlov's Dog habit of buying frozen meals so I could stick them in the microwave oven and hear that ding. The food usually isn't that good and I know even as lazy as I am - I can do better than that.
steal the pdf for kenji lopez-alt's "food lab," it has a ton of great reasons behind how cooking works so you can apply the information to other recipes and cooking in general.
This exactly. Kenji is a modern food GOAT, and truly cares about the greater community. Regularly lets other people publish his big findings, will make YouTube videos demonstrating his techniques and findings. Owns a restaurant and has been as based as possible throughout COVID.
Kenji is someone that I will support when I have the money for it, but he's also the kind of guy that would tell you to just pirate the book if you don't have the money for it.
i totally have the hardbound copy and it's easily my most used book. i don't really think it would be a stretch to say that kenji's approach and techniques have had the largest single impact on any modern online cooking resources.