I am now officially a SAHM. I am really enjoying it, but I have a teatime problem. DP is hard to feed. He's not fussy (far from it, he will eat anything) but he much prefers "proper" food - ie cooked from scratch, local ingredients, all the stuff we are meant to do. i would appear to have forgotten how to cook somehow (been with him nearly 4 years, he has done most of the cooking as we have both worked/studied/whatever).
I am fine doing mine and DD1s lunches (baked potatoes, sandwiches, beans on toast, boiled eggs, etc) but when it comes to something more substantial for the evening meal my mind goes blank. He works in a warehouse so he does need a decent meal, and I feel mean making him start cooking as soon as he gets in from work (he has to if we are to eat before DD1s bedtime)
Added complications are that we have an aga-style oven that I don't fully understand and we are quite poor. Also he does have a thing for "foreign" food (he tends to cook things like jambalaya or gumbo as his staple, fallback dishes) and I am a fan of very "English" food like pies and potato based things. We will both happily eat the others favourites, but I would like to make him some things he really likes every now and again.
DD1 will eat anything she sees us eating, and DD2 is three weeks old and breastfed, so we are fine there for a while.
Is there a book or website that would help me? Or do you lot have any easy recipies I could add to my repetoire?
I do my main shop online with Tesco (I know, not so ethical, but I don't drive and a weekly shop on the bus with a newborn and a toddler is beyond me at the moment) but we do have a brilliant butcher and a couple of good greengrocers in our local row of shops where I could get bits and bobs through the week. No market though, unfortunately, unless I go into the centre of Newcastle, which is a bit much for a bit of shopping. We have a well stocked store cupboard though, due to DPs hobby of cooking.