Many people actually spend a lot of time in the kitchen and more often than not it’s a very lonely affair perhaps cooking dinner for you or for the entire family all by lonesome. It isn’t something that should be done as cooking for everyone can be fun.
In my house we get together as a family, the kids, wife and I, around 3 times a week to actually cook together and it is great fun and we don’t tend to have any problems.
We get together just before the dinner commences and think of a dish we have never cooked or not cooked in a while and I will then rush out and get the things we need. The preparation stage of this is pretty fun and we have come up with some crazy idea that we have gone out and cooked but the one thing we are serious with is the oven. Other than this I have found it a great way to spend time with them.
You really should do something like this with your family, get the kitchen accessories in and spruce up that tableware so that you can just have a bit of a cook with the family. We get together as an entire family once or twice a year (that is every other family within the tree) and have a massive cook off.
So get out there and make sure you have the right home furnishings for this kind of thing to work and just spend a bit of the time with family. You do not have to cook to spend time with your family, do anything at all, they will love the time!
We have tried many other things too but it would seem that my kids just love their cooking, I have to say it would seem that they love making the desserts the most.