Read the entire recipe and gather all the ingredients required, this is to avoid realising that there is an ingredient missing and having to stop halfway through. Start prepping your ingredients, by peeling, measuring, cleaning, chopping and mincing according to the recipe. Once the prepping is done, then follow the recipe step by step. Remember that sometimes food is photoshopped and altered to enhance the beauty of the dish, so one should not stress if the outcome of the dish is not an exact replica of the picture.