When I was younger, dad used to do cooking with my brother and I, and he taught us how to make simple recipes. Nothing incredibly fancy - cake, pizza, scones and so on, stuff that kids eat without much complaint - but nice, simple things that could be made in an hour or less. We wrote all the recipes down, and put them all in a binder, and each recipe had the name of what it was going to make on the top.

Without wanting to sound patronising, maybe a similar, more ordered approach might help you in the kitchen? A lot of your cooking... well, doesn't come off as planned, and I can't help but wonder why. (Although any binder you compile would probably have fewer felt-tip drawings of the food in question with smiley faces about to eat it. :P)

D.F.