She finally got started on her Christmas present - private cooking lessons. Her reaction was excellent! She mentioned the trepidation she had while making the meal - mixed green salad with a vinaigrette, mushroom risotto and a creme caramel - as the vinaigrette had a lot of mustard, which she doesn't like, and the mushroom risotto had, well, mushrooms - another food she doesn't really care for.
When I asked her about it this evening her face lit up with sheer amazement - she gushed... it was so good. She loved it, all of it, even the stuff she doesn't like was just incredible. And it was better than "restaurant food".
And - it was easy. Really easy. She couldn't believe how easy. Minimal ingredients, minimal prep time. And cheap. The first step of the lesson was shopping together for the ingredients. They spent 200ck in total and she said the used less than half.
I'm really grateful she enjoyed it. One on one time with a stranger can be hard, especially when it's a teaching environment. Fortunately she had a good time and learned something and seems quite amenable to completing the sessions... which is a really good thing as this was just the first - she's got 11 more lessons to go, 3 times a week for a month.
I'm looking forward to when she cooks dinner next.
No comments:
Post a Comment