LOL! I like this post, and I will surprise the wife and bake those cookies, as I have all the ingredients, she will fall out!
Growing up in a farm foster home (12-18) I learned from start to finish how to cook and can and smoke meats.
Later in life I learned that my original family (met my real grandma) had a cook book they all passed on to the oldest girls. Well, my dad did not have any girls, so they gave the book to me to continue on the tradition.
The book has really old recipes and i'm supposed to add my own and republish it. I'm thinking of actually cooking all the old dishes over and putting them into todays cooking directions, as the terms sometimes state " a medium oven", or "a pinch of" or "a palm cup of", so folks today would be kind of "WHAT?".
Anywho..... I taught my wife to cook, and at 50+ (we married in 86') she is doing ok
I gradually stopped cooking and left it up to her, but now that i'm not working and she is, I think i'll start up again.
Thanks for the post Gus