I enjoy cooking only as far as I enjoy knowing how to prepare basic ingredients well and simply. Sure, I like eating more complicated dishes, but all the prepping just feels so fussy - fun with a beer in hand and friends around as an evenings entertainment but for every day I don't like spending much more time making food than eating it. But it's important to me that my son learns the basics of healthy, simple food and how to make it.

Eating out is a lot more expensive here than in the States, and mostly for special occasions.