Baking with host kids
I’m having a bit of a problem with being able to carry out my hobby, I love baking and cooking, back home I used to bake maybe once or twice a week and cook dinner a few times in the week.
But here I’ve found my host kids are very picky the other day I made them Mac and cheese from scratch because we were out of the instant stuff my eldest tried it he said he really liked it but didn’t want to eat it because it looked weird (I used different shaped pasta and the cheese sauce was a pale yellow) which I totally get. But then my youngest refused to try any of it even just the plain pasta. Same goes for if I bake something the youngest always refuses to try it even if he requested we make it together. And then the eldest will try a mouthful of it and then again he won’t eat any more of it regardless if he likes it or not. My families profile said the youngest liked to bake regularly but so far he’s only ever shown interest a three or four times in the five months I’ve been here.
Also my host family have meal kits delivered as they don’t have time or the skill for a technical meal which I totally understand but it’s getting very boring for me cooking one meat and one type of veg every time I make a meal. I have asked about if maybe once a week one meal could be ordered at a higher technical level and I’ll make it we did that once every three weeks but then it just fell threw for some reason.
It’s left me with this huge itch I really want to bake something or cook something even something simple like cupcakes. But I also have no real motivation because nothing I’ve made has ever been fully eaten (I only make a batch of 5/6 - there’s 5 of us so it’s never too much being made) I have thought about my friends but one of them has lactose intolerance and the other is gluten free so I do make things but as I’ve never done intolerance recipes before I keep it to simple things probably once very two months so I’m not really scratching that itch.
I wasn’t sure if any other au pairs have gone through a similar thing with their hobbies and how they scratched that itch or if anyone had any recommendations?