First cookbook for college kid's first apartment

owlice
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:20:28 +0000

“even assigned him one night a week to make the family dinner, which he fulfilled”

I have mine (14 y.o.) cooking dinner once a month right now. I’ve told him he has to know how to make five dinners he can share with friends before he goes off to college. Also three-five dishes he can take to a potluck meal, a layer cake, cookies, and brownies. (So he can celebrate someone’s birthday with a traditional birthday cake, and bake cookies and/or brownies for fundraisers, study sessions, etc.)

Too bad I taught him how to make a meatloaf; he came back from camp last summer a vegetarian!

My first cookbook, which I still have lo, these many years later, was Good Housekeeping. I still use it.