My life greatly improved when I offered (actually I insisted) that I’d wash all the dishes, pots and pans, etc, and clean the kitchen after she cooked.
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This made her happy, she’s more than willing to learn new cooking skills and recipes.
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Originally posted by OKCGene:

My life greatly improved when I offered that I’d wash all the dishes, pots and pans, etc, and clean the kitchen after she cooked.

We do something sort of similar, not exactly the same, but close.

I wash the dishes, pots, pans, etc. and clean the kitchen after I cook.

Buy Hello Fresh or Marley Spoon meal kits and cook together.

My biggest influence was cook books. Many of them I got used from amerzon for cheap (Hardcovers for $5). Beginning cooking books that walk you through simple things like cooking eggs? Why not? Yeah, people can be passionate about the simple things like eggs: https://youtu.be/U9DyHthJ6LA?t=1593

I rarely use my Joy of Cooking but I've some books on Creole/Cajun/Louisiana cooking that have been insightful for this northerner when I crave certain southern delicacies.

Same thing w/ NC (East/West/etc.), Texas, Kansas, and so w/ regards to BBQ. Again, for someone up Nort here, cheap used books are a great value.

I've way too many bread books.

And most of these touch on history.

If I may, from the Introduction of one of my Louisiana cook books:
-Cajuns originated in Southern France, emigrated to Nova Scotia, in the early 1600's and settled in a colony that came to be called Acadia. In the mid-1700s the British drove them out of Nova Scotia and many of them migrated to Louisiana, where they were well received by the large population of French...

The history of cooking is so important. And it's there for the taking while we have fun cooking today.

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Originally posted by dsiets:
My biggest influence was cook books. Many of them I got used from amerzon for cheap (Hardcovers for $5). Beginning cooking books that walk you through simple things like cooking eggs? Why not? Yeah, people can be passionate about the simple things like eggs: https://youtu.be/U9DyHthJ6LA?t=1593

I rarely use my Joy of Cooking but I've some books on Creole/Cajun/Louisiana cooking that have been insightful for this northerner when I crave certain southern delicacies.

Joy of Cooking was a long time staple on my shelf, a good foundationary item for any home cook. I don't use it much for recipe's anymore but, it's still a good reference book as it covers a broad range of food categories, in-depth.

I've heard the first step is to get her in the kitchen with her shoes off...

Hmm... Anyone know of high-heeled kitchen shoes? She's a bit particular about shoes...

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Hmm... Anyone know of high-heeled kitchen shoes? She's a bit particular about shoes...

Tell her that you'd find nothing sexier than her cooking with nothing on except a cooking apron and high heels.