ncage1974
Senior Cook
Hi everyone. Me & My wife need help!!! So to try to help understand with whats going on i will try to give you some info. My wife is foreign and grew up without really learning to cook. She can cook a few things (5-6) but thats all she cooks. Tonight she was on the verge of tears because she was so frustrated. She didn't know what to cook and she is almost afraid to fail. What if what she makes doesn't taste good? What is she fails? Those are not my thoughts but hers. I've tried to reassure her that it doesn't matter. I try to tell her thats how you learn but she still feels the same way. She just lacks confidence.
Still trying to convince her that sometimes you have to measure. She is used to just throwing stuff in a pot of course.
So what i'm going to try is to do is hopefully get a very beginning cookbook. Something that has very simple/quick recipes and very simple language. I't would also be nice if she was learning the basics at the same time just not a book full of recipes. Braising would be a perfect example. Illustrated examples would be awesome but probably some of the best books don't have that.
She has tried a few recipes from a Latin cookbook her aunt gave her and i think this is one of her problems. Some of the recipes are very complex....like mole. I have told her that she shouldn't cook anything like that until she has a lot more experience. Start slow....
I do know how to cook but there are days that i can't help her and when she watches me cook she thinks i expect her to cook like me, which of course i don't but her mind still tells her i do . Some of the dishes i make are complex.
I would very much appreciate if anyone could offer advice for a good book to get her started. Also, any general advice would be appreciated.
thanks,
Ncage
Still trying to convince her that sometimes you have to measure. She is used to just throwing stuff in a pot of course.
So what i'm going to try is to do is hopefully get a very beginning cookbook. Something that has very simple/quick recipes and very simple language. I't would also be nice if she was learning the basics at the same time just not a book full of recipes. Braising would be a perfect example. Illustrated examples would be awesome but probably some of the best books don't have that.
She has tried a few recipes from a Latin cookbook her aunt gave her and i think this is one of her problems. Some of the recipes are very complex....like mole. I have told her that she shouldn't cook anything like that until she has a lot more experience. Start slow....
I do know how to cook but there are days that i can't help her and when she watches me cook she thinks i expect her to cook like me, which of course i don't but her mind still tells her i do . Some of the dishes i make are complex.
I would very much appreciate if anyone could offer advice for a good book to get her started. Also, any general advice would be appreciated.
thanks,
Ncage