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Overcoming the challenges and Make Cooking Fun
Cooking dinner every night of the week can become a little mundane, especially if you find everyone in the family is sitting down watching TV or at the computer rather than putting in the effort to help. If you are becoming frustrated cooking for everyone with no help at all from the family, there are a few tips that may help save your sanity and creativeness in the kitchen.
While not everyone loves to cook, it really does require time and effort to prepare and cook. Time and effort goes a long way to getting any task completed. With the families help the satisfaction you receive will be work the effort.
If you have a big family yet you are cooking solo every night, you may be inclined to throw your hands in the air and say it's my night off, I'm not cooking tonight. This may mean take away or a dinner that really shouldn't be eaten. So instead it is time to take another approach.
There are many cooking shows on TV at the moment showing how to cut up vegetables, make sauces, cooking meats to perfection. Learn from these shows, and try to pass what you know onto your family. If your mother knew how to cook, and never showed you then it will take a while to learn the confidence and skills. Passing the skills you have learnt in the kitchen can be priceless for your partner and children as cooking is a skill that will be used every day.
Cooking can easily become just another of those tasks that has to be done every night, so planning in advance can be helpful for some. Engage the husband and kids and ask them what they feel like for dinner. Men love to know what they will be having for dinner, and if they enjoy the dish will probably think about it all day.
Involve the whole family in dinner preparation. If you have small children, juggling the tasks can be tricky at first however the benefit in a few years will be worth the effort. Assign jobs to everyone. As simple as it may be it does make life easier than one person doing everything. Taking the items out of the fridge, preparing vegetables or salad, salting and bringing meat to room temperature, putting rice onto cook, boiling water for pasta...cooking is all about knowing what has to be done and simply doing it.
Involving the family will not only help save your sanity, it will pass on the skills you have learnt in the kitchen. Who knows one day you may be able to sit down and watch TV while the family bakes biscuits or dinner for you!
