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Here we are at the beginning of the school year (Hooray!!!), and I\u2019m betting that a few of you slacker moms (you are<\/em> my people) are still debating things like electives and how to afford them.<\/p>\n

And my son wants to take cooking classes\u2026but not from me because \u201cNo offense, Mom, I mean you\u2019re like a good cook and all. I mean, you haven\u2019t killed anyone with your food. Yet. But I just want to learn how to cook from like a real<\/em> chef.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a point. I haven\u2019t<\/em> killed anyone yet, and I\u2019m not a real chef. I\u2019m mostly a completely self-taught cook who dreams of taking knife skills classes at the local cooking school. (I know I\u2019m doing the knife stuff wrong. I watch cooking shows. I can see that they actually manage to get the pieces all mostly the same size.)<\/p>\n

Luckily, I know a real chef. You know that guy who won Masterchef? Luca Manfe? Not to brag or anything, but I met him once at a friend\u2019s birthday party where he was cooking. I had no idea who he even was before that night, but it didn\u2019t matter. Something magical happened between us, and we talked for maybe a whole eight minutes<\/em>. Really. AND<\/em> he accepted my friend request on Facebook, after I wowed him with my stalker skills. I\u2019m not saying that we\u2019re like running off to get matching tattoos or anything (although I wouldn\u2019t be opposed as long as he made lunch afterwards) but we\u2019re pretty much BFFs. Which is why I knew I could just Facebook IM him for ideas on cooking classes for a 14 year old boy.<\/p>\n

$\"luca\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Naturally, he answered right away, as BFFs do, and pointed me towards Craftsy.com<\/a> where he has\u2026.wait for it\u2026.a cooking class<\/em><\/a>. (I love it when stuff works out.) He has a series of video classes where he teaches everything from making your own pasta to the proper way to debone and cook a fish to how to make stuff that looks like this<\/p>\n

$\"yum2\"$ <\/a> $\"yum\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even know what that is and I want to eat it.<\/p>\n

Then he was all \u201cWould you like a coupon code for half off so it\u2019s only $20?\u201d and I\u2019m all \u201cYEAH!!!\u201d and then he said y\u2019all could use it too for the next 24 hours. So, YAY!!!<\/p>\n

And I looked at all the classes in his series and they\u2019re enough to cover half a semester if you do one a week, which is not quite enough for a whole credit, so I went exploring on craftsy.com <\/a>and there\u2019s another class of Essential Cooking Techniques<\/a> that could be used as the first half of the semester. And get this, when you register for craftsy, they give you a discount for your first class. If you use that for the Essential\u2019s class, it will be $15.<\/p>\n

That means that your kids can learn to make dinner for $35! And you never have to cook again!!!!!!!! (Sorry about the excessive exclamation points there. The idea of never cooking again has me giddy.)<\/p>\n

You have until tomorrow to use his coupon discount code thing by clicking here <\/a>www.craftsy.com\/ext\/LucaManf_5318_H<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"luca1\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

***all photos are the property of Luca Manfe and used with permisson (because he\u2019s my BFF so he lets me use them)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"