I’ve taken over full cooking responsibilities in the house, and have realized it’s the best dad activity
My wife has been super stressed lately with work so I decided to try to lessen some of the stress by going from cooking a couple dinners a week for the family to ALL THE DINNERS. I got the NY Times cooking app, I started doing all the shopping, and I’ve slowly gotten more ambitious with what I make. Most surprising though, I got the kids to help with mise en place and they actually like doing it — they’ll put down their phones and take a break from homework because the whole thing is almost therapeutic to just sit and chat and chop veggies or sautee mushrooms or juice limes. What I thought was basically adding a chore to be nice, turned into a real deal family activity and I kind of love cooking now. Tonight I made a fried rice (I even made the little volcano hole in the middle of the rice to cook the scrambled eggs in) — it wasn’t any sort of Top Chef thing, but my brutally honest kids actually said they thought it was the best thing I’d ever made.
Wish I had done this sooner. 10/10 would recommend.
My wife has been super stressed lately with work so I decided to try to lessen some of the stress by going from cooking a couple dinners a week for the family to ALL THE DINNERS. I got the NY Times cooking app, I started doing all the shopping, and I’ve slowly gotten more ambitious with what I make. Most surprising though, I got the kids to help with mise en place and they actually like doing it — they’ll put down their phones and take a break from homework because the whole thing is almost therapeutic to just sit and chat and chop veggies or sautee mushrooms or juice limes. What I thought was basically adding a chore to be nice, turned into a real deal family activity and I kind of love cooking now. Tonight I made a fried rice (I even made the little volcano hole in the middle of the rice to cook the scrambled eggs in) — it wasn’t any sort of Top Chef thing, but my brutally honest kids actually said they thought it was the best thing I’d ever made.
Wish I had done this sooner. 10/10 would recommend.