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Posted by amybyrd21 • 7/14/10
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I started a cooking lesson business. I am doing personal cooking lessons in peoples homes. I did my first lesson yesterday. we went to the store and bought the items needed and then went home to cook it.

My Question is what would you like to learn in a personal cooking lesson? I am teaching (so far) budgeting, healthier cooking, quick meals, kid friendly meals, and special needs diets.

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Theresa111 (7/14/10)

Tell us what you made on your first day of class. Cool!

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amybyrd21 (7/14/10)

Well my client has 6 kids from 3 to 14 and her 81 year old father in law that lives with her now (just recently got out of the hospital) so we started off easy. We made a kind of chicken parm dish using chicken fingers. My client has no cooking skills at all. So we are starting off simple.

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  Theresa111 (7/15/10)
  
  Great start Amybyrd! Think of how much she will learn, eventually, and her family will be happy about it, too. Great enterprise!
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sugarpies (7/15/10)

Honestly, I have had more people tell me they just "CANNOT" bake. When I did a speaking engagement in December I must have had a dozen people telling me how much they'd love to be able to bake but just can't manage to figure it out. In the back of my mind I was thinking about something like you're doing!

I think baking lessons would be rather easy. Most people can't bake because they just don't know they must be precise and patient.

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  Theresa111 (7/15/10)
  
  It is the main reason I attended culinary school, for the discipline, and for the exact measuring. I cook with abandon, and baking is more like chemistry class.
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  sugarpies (7/15/10)
  
  Besides Biology, Chemistry was my best science subject.
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Anniepooh (7/15/10)

Yay! I did this a few years ago - Cooking Coach - and it was so fun! My first lesson was a 10 year-old's birthday party. They wanted to learn how to make a birthday cake and pizza.

I hope you do fantastically well with this!

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  Theresa111 (7/15/10)
  
  Hey there Annie! I can see you doing this and having a blast!
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amybyrd21 (7/15/10)

I dont know if I could handle a room full of kids right now. I am still getting my feet on the ground. I can teach few at a time but a whole room I think I would run and hide.

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skinnyfight (7/16/10)

Everything you mentioned.

I don't want to spend a lot of time cooking. I'm not interested in gourmet meals.

Oh and how to create several meals around 1 or 2 ingredients. I cook for one so I have to think of 3-5 recipes to use an ingredient so it doesn't spoil.

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  amybyrd21 (7/16/10)
  
  I have been working on that on my new food blog and with my client. We did chicken fingers last week. chicken salad, sandwiches, casserole using left over noodles, pasta sauce, and what ever else is on hand, chicken wraps, and what ever else we could imagine.
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  sugarpies (7/17/10)
  
  I can give you a hundred ways to do chicken. I swear Michael would turn into chicken if I didn't substitute something sometimes when I do the shopping! LOL
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  Theresa111 (7/18/10)
  
  @sugarpies I get the big frown from my husband if I look at anything other than chicken or fish or seafood. I want a big steak or pot roast, and my sister's pork chops and gravy. By the way, he no longer eats meat or chicken , except for pepperoni pizza and the occasional whopper or single meatball.