Give this book to a new cook with the necessary dinner menu items, put them into the kitchen, without criticizing and peeping every minute, and see what they produce! It is great when youths and new cooks learn to cook at home and introduced personally to the varieties and tastes of food. This cookbook is not for everyone. It is valuable to busy parents, persons with physical limitations, senior citizens on a budget, individuals who want to practice crafting full suppers, beginners in the phases of basic cooking and creating menus, single parents, and youths who are beginning to cook! …. Also great for newlyweds, bachelors, bachelorettes, low to high income households and those weary of using take outs. Experienced cooks can use this cookbook to plan easy day-to-day menus.
This book can assist many people with physical or mental limitations trying hard to be independent in creating meals. Senior citizens, among their other concerns, depending on tea and muffins for complete meals, single adults and other individuals who never have help trying to cook a full meal together. This cookbook will help countless reinforce simple daily math (1/4th, 1/2, etc.), measurements (tbsp., tsp.,), vocabulary (simmer, par boil, palate) and spelling, reading, focus, learning how to carefully follow and absorb instructions and more! Every beginner cook should understand that meals don’t have to look perfect. When anyone begins to cook, emphasis should be on “learning,” the basics, not seasonings or visual perfection. How to use various seasonings, herbs, spices, and palate visuals come later. Let’s get back to the dinner table with our family, friends and neighbors, when fulfilling, “imperfect” looking meals…. mixed with love….. meant a lot! Introduce your child or any new cook to cooking using this book and dinner can be on the table when you get home or too tired to cook. Then take 20 to 30 minutes to sit down to eat with them. “It’s just not that complicated!”