When people get married for the first time, they usually have to create a home. In my opinion, the heart of the home is the kitchen. You create your family around the table, after all. But young newlyweds -- and maybe some older newlyweds who never got around to it -- often don't know how to cook or how to create a practical kitchen.
From the time, you create your wedding registry, you'll be thinking about all the things you'll need to actually use your kitchen and cook on a regular basis. Cooking at home is a good thing. For one, it's a fun thing to do as a couple. Second, it is also healthier than eating out. Finally, if you cook the meal, you and your husband or wife are more likely to sit down and eat it together. All of this makes your life better. Lucky for us, the Guide to Cooking for Two recently shared the inside scoop on all that a beginner chef needs to equip her kitchen for serious cooking. Eat up!
Francesca,
Thanks for the link to “Your First Kitchen.” From the time my future wife and I started living together we always cooked together – sometimes squabbling gently about who would make what. But there was something ineffably satisfying about sitting down to share a meal we’d cooked together. And we each had things we did better than the other, for instance her pie crusts/pastries beat mine hands down – so if we had quiche she made the pastry (which is really the best part of a good quiche) while I made the custard.