Anyone send their nanny to cooking classes? Any recommendations?

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Keen to use my mat leave as an opportunity for the nanny to up her cooking skills. Something pretty basic would be good, I would just love her to be able to cook all the basics well e.g. shephards pie, lasagne etc.

Any recommendations for good places?

Thanks

I'd love to have been given cooking lessons haha

I just don't understand how it is that people can't cook. I don't get it. Can she not follow a recipe? Perhaps the best thing to do would be to buy her a basic recipe book or one of the Annabale Karmel type books and get her to try it out. I wouldn't waste your money on cooking lessons.

i cant beleive you have hired a nanny who cant cook simple meals like shepherds pie, fish pie, casseroles etc

anyone who can read can follow a recipe - tho i tend to cook with out recipes and still create fab meals

Just get your nanny to watch VideoJug: How to make Shepherds Pie
The children I nanny love the [http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-egg-fried-rice VideoJug: Egg Fried Rice]]. We add whatever we have around into it - today it had Sausage.

If you are near me (West Surrey / North Hampshire) then Newlyns Farm (M3 junction 5) have a Cookery School. Their beginners course will cover Cottage Pie, Lasagne.

However the problem with any kind of course I feel is that the recipes may be liked by adults but not children. You know best what your children will eat, what changes need to be made to recipes for them to consider eating it.

Thanks all. She said she can cook and probably thinks she is passable but is really not. She has all the Annabel Karmel's etc but somehow for her it doesn't translate from the page! Cheaper to fix than get a new nanny.

Could try teaching her but not sure I would have the patience.

I see the credit crunch hasn't affected you.

Oh the diversity of MN....

Tell you what, I'll teach her how to rustle up a decent spag bol for a pint of snakebite and black

Good, good.

I'll pour the cereals.

www.harmonyathome.co.uk/?page_id=375

here is a course i found for your nanny.

Ha. I totally understand the comments here about how can anyone not be able to cook these basic meals. On the other hand I've known a nanny or two who could use a good cooking course! I think it's a good idea because it is not you telling her how to cok (i.e. micromanaging). And it gives her something to add to her CV and also gives her something to do outside the house while you are home on mat leave.

I say go for it.

I took me a few nannies to realise that:

me: Do you like to cook
nannycandidate: yes. I cook for my family every Sunday (or something similar)

actually means she likes to bake cakes and is going to me totally shell shocked when I hand her the weeks nutritional requirements and tell her chips are not a vegetable.