@MichMae99 10 October 2020 edited more from that month

Importance of cookbook Before, I used to say - if it takes me more than ten minutes to make, it's not worth it. Also, I was so horrible and clueless about cooking (baking and anything else to do with food included) that when my husband ran to the kitchen because the cookies were burning, I calmly told him - "it's OK. Don't worry. Just flip them over!" I was completely ignorant about how cookies baked in the oven. And making a garden salad brought me to tears. This was my baseline.

Photo source: https://www.google.com/search?q=How+cookbook&client=ms-android-huawei-rev1&prmd=isvn&sxsrf=ALeKk03XNb0r7p_blXDUXLUftn_sl1ZjBw:1602296862721&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjK0876_KjsAhXSPXAKHeSyBfYQ_AUoAXoECBMQAQ&biw=424&bih=779#imgrc=j72gzDaA7gv2-M Now, when we ate out (it really didn't matter which restaurant and of course, we didn't have to order it from the kids menu, but why should it be that way?), I decided that I must learn to cook for our kids sake (my husband jokes that my love for him didn't induce me to cook, but my love my kids did. To that which I've answered, you can cook something for yourself. They can't). I was trying to stick to my old 10 minute rule, but with two young kids, it might take me ten minutes to take the eggs out from the refrigerator let alone crack it and beat it. Well, even though I've bought about a dozen of cookbooks in the last ten years or so (remember, I don't like cooking), but with the cookbook I keep going back to. It's got great recipes for pancakes and waffles (no more mixes for us) as well as all kinds of soups. I also need to venture out more. The cookbook has whole menus for special days. I started photocopying my favorite recipes from other books and pasting it on to this book (because I might get rid of all the others, but I KNOW this is the one I'm going to keep). So, as a person who really doesn't like cooking and who is easily intimidated by cooking (I'm still very intimidated by yeast. I love baking breads, but all un-yeasted breads. For some reason, yeast, water temp, rising, etc. really intimidate the fledgeling cook within me), I love cookbook because it makes me feel like I can cook.