Find oneself nothing French to eat cooked outside (9)
I believe the answer is:
orientate
'find oneself nothing french' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'to eat cooked outside' is the wordplay.
'to' becomes 'orient' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cooked' indicates an anagram.
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'eat' with letters rearranged gives 'ate'.
'orient' going inside 'ate' is 'ORIENTATE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for orientate that I've seen before include "Fix position" , "Give direction to" , "leave the West implicitly?" , "determine position" , "Get bearings, become accustomed to situation" .)