Just learn the basic cooking skills and have fun making your own variations on the fly. Learn to master the cast iron skillet and a dutch oven and you have endless possibilities.
One of my favorite things to cook in a dutch oven is whole chicken over sweet potato. Just cut a sweet potato (leaving skin on) in thick slices and coat both sides with olive oil, salt and pepper. Line the bottom of your dutch oven with them and put on stovetop over medium heat for about 7 minutes (without turning over the sweet potato slices). Meanwhile, you have your oven pre-heating to 450 degrees.
After the 7 minutes, put the whole chicken on top, cover and place in 450 degree oven for one hour. After the hour, remove top cover and cook about another half hour to get everything nicely browned.
Comes out perfect every time. The sweet potato slices are drenched with chicken juices and you have a nice char on the bottom of the slices. As for chicken, place on cutting board and the meat literally falls right off the bones with a knife and fork.
Utter simplicity and the prep time is minimal.
Sounds excellent with the browned sweet potato slices.
Jamie Oliver’s lemon milk chicken is another one that’s simple and foolproof. Weird sounding but delicious:
https://www.thekitchn.com/jamie-oliver-chicken-in-milk-best-chicken-recipe-all-time-80388