Sometimes I (re) teach Mum to cook.  Sometimes I teach Stepson 1 in preparation for uni.  We’ve done a fair bit now as I mentioned in this post.

Stepson 1 did brilliantly in his A levels and is officially off to uni in a matter of weeks now.

And I realised that it’s all very well doing the teaching, however the likelihood of any of the recipes staying in his head are practically zero.

So along side kicking off his starter pack of pasta n sauce and super noodles, I’ve been writing out the recipes we’ve covered in a very non recipe book style, assuming no scales are available and there is limited kitchen competence.  I got it all laminated, printed, bound and…

…ta dah!

(That’s Mr R and both the stepsons cooking quite a few years back now – it seemed a suitably embarrassing photo to use.)

The recipes are very simple and very samey, in the hope that they will become automatic.  They are also mostly meat based as while he is happy to try a bit of our vegetarian food, he would not consider that a complete meal 🙄.  I’ve added veg in small amounts to all the recipes though, and am hoping that this steers him away from sausage and super noodes every night.

If you have a young person also about to go off and fend for themselves and this would be useful, give me a shout with your email address and I’ll ping you over a copy – you’ll just need to print it out 🙂