Cooking is something you should learn at home, not in school. Actually so is a lot of other stuff. Parents these days seem to have no sense of responsibility, and are hell-bent on delegating as much as possible to teachers so that they can go off and enjoy themselves just as though they hadn't made any children. Often the teachers are even more clueless than the parents!
Very first pizza I ever ate was one I cooked myself, including making the dough from scratch - probably the first yeast bread I'd ever baked too. All by watching John Noakes on Blue Peter!
Couple of years later for secondary school and boys could take cookery but they had to push otherwise your did woodwork or metalwork. IIRC there was one girl from our year doing metalwork and one boy doing cookery. You couldn't mix and match wood/metal work, I did wood work, so I'm reasonably proficient at hacking wood about but metal bashing is just that "hit wiv' 'ammer".
Didn't bother with uni, taught myself when I moved into rented shared accomodation.
Oh dear, I don't want to be morbid but what happens if you survive your wife? I'm sure you won't want to live on take aways or ready meals...
Any one who hasn't burnt themselves cooking hasn't done any cooking.
So you will really miss good food. Diving in trying to cook a whole meal is probably not a good idea and I guess she doesn't take kindly to you getting under her feet in the kitchen when she is cooking. How about getting her to show/teach you how to do parts of a meal, say just the boiled spuds or something. As with a lot of things having the confidence that you can do something is more than half the battle.
First cookery book Katherine Whitehorn's "Cooking in a bedsit", second Constance Spry. Since then I mostly don't use recipe books because mine are better than theirs. I pick up my best recipes from friends, particularly in Italy where everyone likes to show off their cooking skills.
One that puzzled me was the grease for some blowers at work. The tubes had a six month shelf life, but the blowers (in a much more arduous environment) only needed lubrication every two years.
We ignored the manufacturers instructions. The blowers still outlasted the equipment, but did need new bearings every 10-15 years. Cheaper than replacing the grease every six months.
You can't go wrong if you can knock out a reliable victoria sponge, especially if kids are around.
Still in the little lemon shaped bottles :)
I buy loads - I find and old coke (etc) bottle filled up with water and a generous squeeze of jif makes a most refreshing, cheap and not unhealthy refreshment, especially if working on something manual (I find plain water a bit bland and thus tend not to drink enough).
Shove some of this in - it'll be too late by the time he notices:
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if you want him to live, this milder version:
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15 million scovilles is the hotness of pure capcaisin. The first one is
2 million.
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