learn to cook and cook more often

I never was into cooking. I used to love to bake (although I always baked from the boxed mix variety). Nowadays I find that I LOVE to bake, FROM SCRATCH! It’s so much fun, and I love when my baked goods are applauded. I have started learning how to cook so that my husband and I can eat better and healthier. Most of my close friends are amazing cooks (some are even chefs or have gone to culinary school). In college, they would cook, and I’d do the dishes. One of my best friends decided it was time I learned to cook myself. No more dish duty. I have found that I am starting to enjoy it, but find that I don’t have a lot of time. I want to become better acquainted with cooking, thus I can do it more often and quicker.

Is going to require me to be able to do this. I can do the basics. But I want to learn to cook new stuff!