Originally Posted By: Susan

Learn to cook adequately, but learn a few things REALLY well (make it easy, pick things you like), and offer to provide those things for potlucks. Sue


Excellent advice. I now make excellent black beans and brown rice (with mushrooms, etc.) after making it regularly. Same for broiled salmon. Just stuff I love to eat. Next step is learning to cook what I like with a camp stove. Cooking it well, that is.