First things first. Now that you are familiar with what is in the kitchen, you have to know HOW to read a recipe. Reading a recipe is like me reading a highschool football play book. Sure I know the basic rules, but I don't know the signs, plays, or language used by the players. If I were to read a play book it would be completely foreign to me. So how can I learn to read a play book? I have to lean the terms, abbreviations and how a play book is set up.
Use the follwing links to read a little bit about how to read a recipe then give me your thoughts about what you already knew and what you learned.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:How_to_read_a_recipe
http://www.foodonourtable.com/2012/01/28/how-to-read-a-recipe/
Finally go to this website and see how it's done.
http://youtu.be/YYfj9COxEq4
