What are the essential recipes a new wife should know how to cook?!
What are the essential recipes a new wife should know how to cook?
Answers: 1. Your husband's favorite (if you're lucky like I am, it's hamburger!)
2. Something fancy enough to serve guests (roast beef, an ethnic specialty, holiday turkey and dressing)
3. A potluck dish - something that's crowd-pleasing, transportable and easily reheatable that can be easily shared with others (lasagne, chili, fried chicken) Source(s):
PS - I agree with Hillary B -- Cook's Illustrated is an AWESOME magazine with great, easy-to-follow recipes. Coffee and brownies.
And sandwiches
The rest can come later. Depends what you like to eat. teach your new husband to cook just buy a cookbook, you dont need to have anything memorized. you can also make a lot of meals out of box or kit that you can buy in the store. First of all, she should make it clear that she's not the only cook possible. Then she should make it clear that she's learning, so shut up. Then she should try basic and easy stuff by buying a cookbook for beginners or web searching. Then she should tell her husband it's his turn. Depends.....do you have any cooking experience at all?
If so find out what your Hubby's favs are, get a simple recipe for the things he likes...cook 'em a few times then you can jazz up the things your cooking in your own little ways....
If you need some recipe help let me know! I'd be pleased to help ya!
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Nikki Full English, Roast dinner, Spag bol, shepherds pie, Chicken korma, pasta salad, bangers and mash. Pretty much all the standars stuff. Being a former chef, it is a dificult question there can be many factors, ethnic background, his likes and dislikes, yous to, time available for cooking and the budget your working with.
I would learn to do basic recipes, and then as your time is opening up then get your mother or his to teach you some more extra fancy things, today's busy young working couple's have less time and generally eat the wrong things.
You could try to shop together and then on the weekend when your home doing household chores, prepare some meals for the week so you can come home and finish them.
I never got married, to much travelling to the Far East, Carribean and all over Canada, so I only cooked for myself, but use that general rule for my own food prep. Super basics.......
Breakfast.......pancakes, eggs (omellettes, scrambled, fried), french toast, etc. Once eggs dishes are mastered, they can be served as lunch or a light dinner as well with salad and some meat.
Dinner...learn to sautee........(meat, veggies) This is easy......simply means placing small pieces of meat or veggies in pan a hot pan with just enough oil to coat, and let them "jump" and either toss or stir.
Pasta is easy.......just follow directions on the box/package........just don't overcook. And kind of meat and veggies can be tossed with any kind of pasta to make a whole different meal.
REMEMBER; Cooking is always more fun with the new husband, too. You might have so much fun cooking, that dinner will burn while you are otherwise occupied, and can GO OUT, or order in. Boiling water for pasta and eggs
Baking temperature and times for meats and what meats should look like when done.
Some good cook books.
Try new things Roast Chicken...Meatloaf....Pasta...... I love to get new ideas from magazines like Martha Stewart Living or Cooking Light. I also am a HUGE fan of the Cooks Illustrated monthly magazine- every single recipe has been a winner from Cooks Illustrated. If you can read a recipe you can cook just about anything! tuna salad, rice, spagetti, sandwich
chicken salad Learning to cook well takes practice. You and your new husband should learn together. If one person takes full responsibility for cooking, it can become a drag. Cooking together is fun, and a bonding experience. Everyone over the age of six who eats should take some responsibility for cooking.