I don’t like cooking.  At all.  I love to bake, but I do NOT like to cook.  I think this comes down to the simple fact that I absolutely hate reading directions.  Don’t ask me why I enjoy baking when I still have to follow a recipe.  Probably because I’m a sugar junkie and the payoff makes it worth it.

Because of my hatred of the culinary arts, my poor husband is pretty deprived in the coming home to a good meal after work area.  He’s usually just greeted with a blank stare when he asks the dreaded question, “What’s for dinner?”

When I do cook something, even if it’s foul, he ALWAYS compliments me and is appreciative.  Because of that, I really think he deserves for me to improve in this area, so here’s what I’m going to do.

Every day I’ll post our dinner menu.  Along with the menu, I will post the recipes I’m going to use to cook with (I feel myself groaning inwardly even as I type this).  Later in the day, I’ll update with pictures of the process, and in the evening after the masterpiece has been devoured (or regurgitated), I will report on the success - or lack thereof - of the dinner menu.

Here’s where you come in.  If there’s one thing I abhor in life, it’s wasting time.  Part of why I struggle with cooking is because it drives me crazy to put so much time and effort into making something, only to have it turn out badly.

I need ideas… and I need recipes.  If you’ve cooked something, and it’s something a VERY novice chef can do and do well (or if you just have a supreme amount of faith in my uncultivated cooking prowess) - shoot it over to my email account at the bottom of this post. I’m also going to start a Recipe Box that has my favorite recipes that I find or that you send me. If you see something on there that you think you can top, send it to me and I’ll give it a shot. If yours is better (according to our highly unsophisticated palates), it’ll replace the one I have in my Recipe Box.

Take pity on my husband, and help me start feeding him well at the end of the day.  He works hard and he deserves it!

katie at dearesthusband dot com

Katie