Opportunity Knocks...

About six months ago we were having Sunday dinner Chez Bailey (our house) with our two favourite nieces and our favourite nephew, one of the nieces is a very fussy eater and she was heavily pregnant with her first child,   We got to talking about food and her terrible, terrible eating habits or lack of,  when  It suddenly occurred I had a sudden flash of something which made me suddenly ask her if she would like to learn how to cook, I really don’t know where this came from and my pleasure when she said “Yes” was immense.  We arranged to have a cookery lesson in a couple of weeks and shepherds pie was the order of the day.

When Billy and I arrived at our niece’s house on the day, we were very impressed that already she had a cookery book and was eager to get on, my immense pride in her is super increased because since that day she has had 2 dinner parties that I know of and one of them was for us, me and Billy, she served a 3 course meal cooked from scratch and it was absolutely brilliant.  I awarded her a ‘Come Dine with Me’ 9 because there is always room for improvement (I was teasing) she deserved a 10+ at least….

Not many months later she served up a Christmas dinner for at least five people and when she told me that if it wasn’t for me she wouldn’t be cooking, it was the best ever Christmas present I could have asked for.   All because instead of laughing at her, I offered her a way forward, what are Aunties for???