...that's a very good place to start.
A while a ago I was made redundant from my job as a Family Support Worker. I always described my job as a cross between 'How Clean Is Your House' and 'Supernanny' but actually it was much more than that. Cooking with families was something I did regularly. Not only fun stuff with children but helping parents to budget, do meal plans, write shopping lists and teaching them basic cooking skills. As I was considering my time of unemployment I came up with the idea of transferring what I have done with these families to a blog.
I should make it clear - I am a home cook. I have no formal training and have learnt how to cook from watching my parents, reading cook books as though they were novels and cooking meals from an early age. It is my belief that anybody can learn to cook with the right ingredients.
The
main idea behind this is that you can basically have a pretty decent
(and inexpensive) diet from 3 recipes (and variations thereof). I have found that so called 'beginners' cooking courses teach people how to make a variety of interesting and delicious things but neglect, what I consider to be, the fundamental elements of cooking. Don't get me wrong, I like a homemade quiche as much as the next person, but it's not exactly something I would make on a regular basis. Especially on a budget with the time restraints that most parents encounter daily.
All of the above I find interesting. So many of us have no formal training but we turn out to be pretty good cooks. I love the challenge of keeping to a budget, this makes meal times so much more satisfying. I look forward to your next blog.
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