What should I teach my daughter for cooking basics?

Question

Yikes! My kid was always busy with school and activities. She never learned how to cook, didn't care. Her fiance cooks and now she wants to learn. It took me years to learn from my grandmother. What can I teach this kid in 3 days?

She spent years in my kitchen and doesn't know a damned thing! I'm kinda pissed she tells me she doesn't know anything and she got ripped off.

She's getting married and she doesn't cook. Now it's MY fault!! I don't cook anymore, I live alone. HOLY COW! Any other single Moms charged with a cooking week-end, for Thanksgiving? I'm kinda pissed. I know how to cook, I just don't because I live alone.

I made her watch me, peel potatoes, help out and do the stuff I did, when I learned. I never made her cook, as a teen.

I just can't go with the box stuff. Ewwww. I live alone and Kraft mac and cheese doesn't even come in my house! Never has!

I would never tell my daughter to cook out of a box! Rachel Ray and blue boxes are just nasty!

It only takes 15 minutes to make real mac and cheese. Why the Hell would you eat that crap?
Okay, it takes oven time.

My kid steams and eats veggies, she doesn't know how to make chicken fried steak and meatloaf. I think she knows, she just doesn't remember. My mother gave me some big-*** Betty Crocker cookbook. I learned how to make the best pancakes, after tweaks, and I haven't seen that cookbook in years. I chose to cook like my grandmother, dad and grandfather. We always had people for dinner and my ex asks my daughter to cook. She doesn't know how to cook like my family. We never had recipes, we just cooked. We guestimated everything based on people and we made everthing from scratch.

Answer 1

Give her a cookbook and tell her to call if she has any questions.

Don't you know it's always easier to blame mom than accept the fact that you didn't do it because you didn't want to?

Let the guilt roll off your back.....you arent' guilty of anything nor do you have to 'make up' for her lack of skills. She's old enough to read!

I didn't learn to cook while growing up.....didn't want to. When I had a family I pulled out the cook book and went to work. For family recipes I called my mom and got them. There was no fault on anybody. You learn what you need to know when it necessary to know it.

Tell your daughter to quit whinning and get in the kitchen!

Answer 2

Don't worry to much about it.
Give her a couple of really good cookbooks that have a variety of things in them and get her the Kraft magazine there are so many great easy to do meals in them and she will be just fine.
I had made my first Thanksgiving Dinner two years ago and had absolutely no idea what to do but I did it and I did it without burning anything.
Now I will let you know that this dinner was a big deal to me because my husband decided to invite his parents over for it and I never made such an elaborate dinner before.
I got married young and my parents weren't around enough to even know if I ate dinner, so I did learn how to cook mac and cheese (you know blue box please).
But I did learn and I did it by myself and since your daughter has a man who can cook you don't have to worry about her starving and they could even take a cooking class together. Hey- that would be a great engagement present.
Good Luck to her and her up coming wedding and to you too.

EDIT:
When I did the out of a box crap as you said I was only 9 years old I had no choice!!!!!
As far as Quick and easy meals there not all out of box meals they just break it down for easy learning. You don't have to be so rude for my response if you didn't want a variety of answers you came to the wrong place. I didn't have a mother who cared so I learn on my own just fine its great that your daughter has a mom who does care and is there but not everyone is bless that way and you should not judge them for things they could not change! And Again Good luck to your Daughter and her soon to be.

Answer 3

Sounds like she will be looking for someone to blame any time she runs into difficulty. She can't do that in the work world. My younger sister didn't learn how to cook until after she got married.
I'd say a shopping trip to get the correct hardware, cutlery, spices, and other accoutrements would be in order, along with cruising the local bookstore for cookbooks for beginning cooks.
Have her pick out her favorite meals, then you two go shopping for the ingredients, then come home and make these things.
Don't forget to teach her basic stuff like how to make omelets and quiche (two ideal ways to use up leftovers), and other basics. And how to use and combine pantry basics like Spam, canned chicken, cream-of-mushroom soup, pasta, biscuit mix.
Tacos are easy and tasty.
Crepes can be meals or dessert.

Answer 4

I heard this from my youngsters and that they have got not left domicile yet! In 3 days... properly, get her in the kitchen and have her do lots of the artwork. communicate/show steps. If she would not comprehend a thank you to hold a knife, then have her placed her hand on it , placed yours over it to illustrate (merely an occasion) then have her do it. Is it frustrating? sure. Does it artwork? sure. that's how I discovered and how i'm making my youngsters learn. the excitement of Cooking and greater useful residences and Gardens cookbooks would make super christmas provides. the excitement because of the fact it teaches each little thing, greater useful residences because of the fact it has image steps.

Answer 5

Buy her a cookbook . It isn't learned in 3 days . Stop feeling guilty .