I'm not a dude!

It's true! I am, in fact, a 23 year old girl. Scandal, right?

So why the fuck am I writing a blog called Dude Cooking Lessons?

Well, I'll tell you: I grew up learning to cook at my mother's side. I cook a lot, and I bake a lot. I can bake a loaf of bread, I can roast a duck, I can intricately ice a cake (okay, I can't, because it is fucking hard and I am a terrible artist, but I get the ins and outs). But those aren't really the cooking skills I use every day. They aren't the things I learned from my mother and my grandmothers. The things I learned from them were way more helpful: how to chop vegetables properly. How to debone a chicken breast. How to put ingredients in a pan and come out with a meal that tastes good, without a recipe, and without poisoning anyone.

These are things that I have found a lot of dudes don't know how to do. Most young boys aren't that interested in cooking, so they're not going to hang around the kitchen by choice - there are videogames and sports to play, or whatever. And, traditionally, that didn't matter - but in this day and age, men are moving out of their parents houses and not immediately getting married and having a wife at home to cook for them. They're out on their own, and they have no idea how to feed themselves. I am constantly answering questions from my friends about how they can eat something other than peanut butter sandwiches and ramen. It was okay to do that in university, sort of - you made it through without scurvy, but now you're an adult. You have bills to pay, and student loans, and you work at a job! You neither have the money nor the time to eat out, and peanut butter gets a little sad after a while. But if you've never stood in front of a stove before, cooking dinner can look seriously intimidating.

Well, I'm here to help with that. I'm here to tell you what you need, what to do, and how to save money and get healthy at the same time. And who knows, you might even find yourself enjoying it.

Just as men are not instantly getting married, women aren't either - now that we go to school and get jobs and drive cars and vote, we don't spend our youth preparing for married life and motherhood. Back in the day, boys would learn to tinker with cars in Shop Class and girls would learn to tinker with stoves in Home Economics (and sew an apron! These are handy skills, people) - now, everyone's learning math and how to analyze literature and other shit that isn't going to help anyone in their everyday life. So while it is more common for girls to learn how to cook, there are still a ton of us who suck at it! So hopefully I can help people of every sex learn how to suck less at feeding themselves.


So take a look, as some questions, and get cooking!