Courses for Maids

Hi Mrs Miggins - The Matilda run courses for helpers on babycare and first aid. Would also recommend that you go on a first aid course if you haven't already - really useful info.

Town Gas has a cooking center that has classes for DH's. http://www.towngascooking.com/

http://www.superhelper.goldphoria.com/page/page/1368201.htm



I haven't tried this course but it sounds interesting.

Mrs. Miggins - Have you found western cooking classes for your DH? I checked out all of these links, but haven't quite found the right spot.

Try some of the really good Women's weekly cookbooks from Austalia, they are available in Dymocks and Bookazine. They have a picture for every recipe and clear easy instructions. They have all different titles including one called Basic food,food for babies and toddlers etc. There are large A4 size ones and smaller pocket versions and they are quite affordable. The recepies are easy and straightforward with no weird equipment or ingredents. I have been over many of the cooking courses in HK and they are really for people who already know how to cook, none for complete beginners to the western style of cooking. Our helper is a fantastic cook as she is a trained hospitality teacher but she was not enthused with some cooking classes I thought I would send her to for something to do during last summer as they were not hands on - just watching someone else cook, you may as well turn on the telly and watch Nigella or Jamie Oliver. I think we do need someone to run a course here specifically for helper that goes over 1. Basic food hygiene (cleaning and fridge management) and what temperatures stuff needs to be cooked to, cross contamination etc and 2. Basic cooking techniques, eg, what does does, boil, simmer, dice, etc mean. As well as some of the more tricky western recepies like making white sauce as well as what to subsitute if you don't have an ingredient available. I think if you took it slowly and asked her to learn 10 of your favourite recepies one at a time you will soon see if she is capable of a. learning to cook or having some flair for cooking. Possibly the reason that we don't have courses for beginners here is that they would be quite expensive and so there is no market for it and it takes too long as cooking is time consuming. The only way you really learn is by actually cooking and adjusting what you do by taking notice of the results and adjusting what you do accordingly.

Ness - Definitely agree on the topics that would be beneficial to have offered in a class. I'll check out the books; sound good. I showed my helper a really quick pasta recipe and she was amazed at how simple it can be. I'm sure many of these dh's can pick it up easily...it seems less complicated that much of the Asian food (Chinese, even cuisine from the Philipines) they excel at.

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I am wondering how much Sarah charges for training? Do you know how much she charges per hour or per session?