DD1 is giving DH cookery lessons for Christmas!

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She has written out four vouchers. The lessons are going to be:
Chocolate brownies
Meringues
Kebabs
Lasagne.
It will increase his culinary repertoire by 400% but PMSL at him being taught to make meringues by an 11-year-old. I suggested she should start him on something easier (and more useful) but she insists.

LOL how sweet. Agree that the repertoire is very complicated for a beginner...

Oh that is such a lovely idea!

I might steal it.

She is going to find it tough going. In fifteen years I have managed to teach him toasted cheese sandwiches and, er, I think he made bread from a packet mix with the children once, but that's it. He keeps SAYING he wants to learn to cook, and I have bought him a couple of cookbooks but he just panics at the thought of the actual cooking.
Disclaimer: He is not some some sort of useless lummox, he does all the hoovering, most of the washing up and lots of other housework, it it just cooking he doesn't do. Oh, and laundry, because it got too expensive to let him near the washing machine.

DP couldn't cook anything when we met but now he does quite a few things. Could you try him with Jamie Oliver's new book? Or even the Sam Stern ones directed at teenagers. Lots of really easy recipes in those.

Janeite, DD1 has got the Sam Stern books and is basing her lessons on them. I will leave it in her capable hands, I've given up. When we moved in together I bought him Nigel Slater's Real Fast Food and he proved himself incapable of following the simplest of recipes, so I wish her luck.
But as I said, he is the perfect husband in every other way, and anyway I LIKE cooking.

Oops! Well I think she sounds fantastic and I wish her luck!

Thank you Janeite, she is fantastic. She is having a coffee afternoon for her friends tomorrow she says. She is going to bake stuff in the morning and has invited friends around in the afternoon for coffee and cakes - 'like you do with your friends, Mummy'!!