...and don't know how to go on

I’ll admit it. This is the fourth post I start today. I know it seems silly (I don’t even have readers yet), but I guessed all my ideas would materialize in front of me when I got started at this... Guess I was wrong! Again!
So I decided I will today write about whatever comes to my mind, whether it makes sense or not! ;D
I tried to cook today. As in “cook: make something up that does not already exist on your chicken-based menu”. I failed. Baaaadly. I made an attempt at pea-soup. It looked good in the picture, the recipe was categorized as “Simple”, and as I have always liked peas, I thought, why not? Well, this is why not. I did not follow ANY of these rules, and you should, especially if adventuring out in the kitchen with a new recipe in your hands!
First of all, make sure you have all the ingredients BEFORE you begin heating things up. Burnt peas do not taste good (yes, I had to run to the store). Second, do NOT add more ingredients in the recipe simply because they are the same colour or you think they might taste good (peas and cucumbers only taste good together in a salad): you are not a cook, you have never done this before, and it won’t taste good. There, just saved you years of destroying meals!
Third, the Second rule applies to whatever spices and condiments you are intended to use in your recipe of choice. Just because you don’t have them and don’t know what they are does not entitle you to add all the spices you DO own, nor does it allow you to simply make up spice-mixes. Believe me, it cannot go well, and you will at some point realize that if you continue doing so, all your dishes will taste completely the same.
Forth, respect and follow the instructions. Yes, they DO know better than you, and yes, everything will probably turn out better if you do as told. They are not there to make you life harder, but easier. And you are demonstrating nothing by feeling rebellious whilst doing the opposite of what told in your recipe, you only show the world you have serious authority-issues.
And Fifth and last, remember to clean your mess right away. Believe me, it will save you a lot of scrubbing. Parents don’t actually tell us this to annoy us, and when you have spent twenty minutes scraping green-gooey stuff off the kitchen walls, you start to remember your mother standing there, unhappy, because now she had to scrub your mess away. I kind of feel sympathy for her now. Strange...