Use cooking as quality time to spend with your family

 

Any mother can spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking for her family, no matter what the recipe was. Time that she could spend with her kids and husband. she will feel left out for spending a lot of time in the kitchen instead of a good quality time for her family. However, with a few steps cooking can be an enjoyable time for the whole family. 

 

Kids love to spend some time in the kitchen with a grown up, at least that is what I know from my own experience with my nieces. Therefore, the mother could use that to spend some time with her kids, and to get some help in the kitchen at the same time. There is a lot of things that the kids can do in the kitchen without endangering their safety. Kids love to whisk any thing, and I do mean any thing. Let the older kids stir something on the stove, but keep an eye on them. They will love to bring you the things you need, either from the fridge or the pantry. If you were mixing some ingredients to make your recipe, let them drop the ingredient one at a time in the bowl or the pot. Plating and decorating , specially desserts, is something that your kids will definitely enjoy doing, and you will get a lot of laughs out of it. Use this time not only to have fun with each other but also to connect more with each other. You can spend some time talking about what happened during the day that was funny or interesting. You can get some inspired ideas for new dishes using the things that your kids like, which you will know by spending this valuable time with them. 

 

Cooking can be an activity to do with your husband. For me at least, my husband loves to chop and stir things that whenever I am in the kitchen, he will come without me even asking and starts to chop any vegetable that I have put out, or starts stirring whatever on the stove. So try to encourage your husband to join you in the kitchen, and use this time to have some fun. We have a saying that the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Let your husband taste what you have cooked before you serve it, so he gets excited to eat it. Let him suggests every now and then what you should cook, you will find him in the kitchen with you trying to taste every thing you did. It is amazing how much your husband will open up and talk to you about a lot of things when he is enjoying his favorite dish, so always try your best to find out what are they.

 

Do not think that just because you are cooking, you can not enjoy some time with your family. Cooking can be like anything else you do, if you made the right choices, you can turn it to a quality time to spend with your family.

 

how to enjoy cooking when you really hate it

 

No person can depend on restaurants all the time. They have to

cook every once in a while. But what you can do if you hate cooking. No

one will be able to do anything if they hate to do it. Even if they tried to,

they will never do it very well. That is why I am going to let you know on

some tricks that if you do them right, you will enjoy cooking.

What you need to do first  is to make your kitchen as comfortable

for you as possible. You do that by designing your own kitchen if you

can. Make the space that you want and what you think you will need . if

you were not able to design it yourself, try to decorate it with the things

you like. So it can look beautiful and inviting for cooking. Do not try to

cook something that you do not like, or something that you would think

that you will not be able to execute well. You need to make something

that you can do well so you can built some confidence.

When you buy your kitchen tools, buy any tool that will make your

job easier, for example, the small food processer will make it easier to

chop almost anything, specially onions instead of chopping it by hand

every time. There is also a lot of beautiful, cute kitchen utensils that you

will really enjoy when you are cooking

Always cook with your favorite music on to make your cooking

time as enjoyable as possible. While preparing for what you will cook,

put your favorite TV show on and start watching, so time can pass by

without noticing it. Never think of cooking as something that you have to

do or to think of it as a job. However, think of it as something fun that

you will get something really delicious when you are done.

Let someone else  help you in the kitchen, not for the sake of

helping, it is simply so you do not feel lonely in the kitchen. It is always

nice to have company to at least chat with. If you have kids in your

house, let them help you. You will see how fun it is to cook with kids. Let

them do anything that does not involve the stove or any knives. It is

amazing to see them attempt to do something.

If you are a competitive person, try to find someone else that is as

competitive as you and agree together on a recipe that both of you will

cook, and let someone tell you which one is better. That will make

cooking a little more exciting and it will make you use your full potential.

Dress up when you cook, so you will think that cooking is something

elegant to do.

my own virsion of coleslaw

 

my own virsion of coleslaw

 

 

 

what you need

1 medium to larg cabbage

5 cucmbers

5 carrots

 

the dressing

 

about 5 table spoons of plain yogurt

 

 

 

 

3 table spoons of mayo

 

 

3 table spoon of ketchup

 

 

 

4 table spoons of thaosand island dressing

 

 

 

2 table spoons of creamy french dressing

 

 

 

3 table spoons of ranch dressing

 

 

 

1 can of sweet corn

 

slice the cabbage to thin sliced along with the cucmbers

you can either shred the carrots ar slice them

 

 

mix all of the dressing ingredients together in a larg bowl

 

 

add the corn

and the cabbage + cucmbers + carrots

mix them all together

 

 

but them in a blastic container

let them cool for a while

and enjoy

try it

it is really good

 

 

 

how to make chicken tikka masalla

how to make chicken tikka masalla 

 

  

 

 

 

enjoy cooking do not think of it as a job :)