Boy cooking for himself in college :)

JHS
Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:11:42 +0000

My son cooked for himself his last two years of college. In his first post-college group apartment, the system that ultimately emerged was that his four housemates paid him to source ingredients and make three dinners a week for the group (and guests, if they wanted). He loved that, because it gave him a chance to do more elaborate things than he would have done for himself, and with a decent budget. He is always trying to reverse-engineer dishes he likes in restaurants.

Anyway, he basically uses the web and Youtube to teach himself how to do things. He didn’t start from zero, though. When my kids left for college, they knew how to make pasta, omelets and other egg dishes, hamburgers, and easy chicken preparations. Vegetables and salad. They knew how to make their own pasta sauce, too. And of course cookies and brownies.