I'm looking for websites, particular webpages, Youtube channels, etc.
I'm about to google this stuff but I'd still like suggestions to help me just do it and make sauces myself for basic sauces like sweet and sour, tikka masala, butter chicken, curry (many kinds).
I've started to make most of my meals in a Dutch oven. I throw frozen vegetables in there along with some kind of frozen meat and cook it all for ~45 minutes.
The next thing for me to do is make sauces myself.
It's only very recently that I finally cured myself of my Pavlov's Dog habit of buying frozen meals so I could stick them in the microwave oven and hear that ding. The food usually isn't that good and I know even as lazy as I am - I can do better than that.
Besides Kenji's food lab, learning the 5 French "mother" sauces is necessary. Almost every sauce is just a variation of those sauces.
Learning how to make a bechamel will give you the biggest reward IMO. Gravy, cheese sauce, cream sauces for pasta, all of those are just a bechamel with different things added. Garlic cream sauce for pasta? Add garlic to a bechamel. Gravy for potatoes, beef, chicken, or whatever? Add some thyme, rosemary and onion to a bechamel. Cheese sauce for Mac and cheese, or a cheese dip? Add cheese and some mustard powder to a bechamel.
Ridiculously simple, takes only a few minutes, and come thanksgiving, everyone will rave about your gravy since everyone seems to just buy the jars of flavorless garbage gravy.
Thanks.