ATTN Dudes - What would get you cooking?

Work with him on the weekends, most cooking stuff you do at home it just following directions and taking the mystery out of some of the terms.

when i first met my wife, she did not cook... so i took over the roll. I started out Baking chicken, meat loafs, boxed taco dinners etc... then stepped up to stir fry, crock pot meals, frozen meal.. then i wanted more 'control'. (yes, guys love control), so I took more interest in making everything from scratch, using spices, different ingredients, and started the grocery shopping. Now I cook every night in my house, and love it.
so my suggestion would be to let him start out with baby steps.. and the male instinct to be the best at everything you do, will kick in

I do a lot of cooking for me and my fiance because I enjoy it (and frankly I think I'm better at it than she is). Also I feel you on the commute, mine is 2.5 hours each way.

I would suggest starting small. Come up with a rotation of simple things and start there. Off the top of my head, things that would work: tuna casserole, turkey meatloaf, ceasar salad, baked salmon, and lemon chicken. Just suggestions of course, but all of those things are extremely easy to make, difficult to mess up assuming you have a timer, don't require too many things to be running at once, and depending on the ingredients are relatively healthy.

Give detailed instructions, and buy the appropriate ingredients. Even cook the first rotation (or two...or six depending on the results) with him so that he gets the hang of it. Things like that really aren't that hard, and should be easy enough to master pretty quickly. Slowly add things in and try more complicated techniques. There may be things he never gets, but he'll be able to get a foundation and can work on experimenting from there.

Cooking is a skill like anything else. It's a lot easier to learn with help. I wouldn't suggest telling him what to cook and then just leaving it to him the first time, you're potentially setting him up for failure.

Also as an aside, the slow cooker is the best utensil a kitchen could ever have. It's virtually impossible to mess anything up, and you can make all kinds of things with it. Might want to consider that as well. I love mine.

Hmmm... Does he wanna cook in the first place, because i feel ms
Many guys don't, they will just ask you to figure out ways to teach them. Hope your guy is not like that...

In that case, you can teach him simple stuff in the weekends and he will be able to pick it up from there.

I do 90% of the cooking at home. 1) because I like to, 2) most of it is on a grill, but 3) (and most importantly) her cooking sucks.

Cooking is something that sounds a lot more difficult than it is. When I got married I couldn't cook anything more complicated than macaroni and cheese, now I can make probably 50 different dishes very well and can even freestyle it if I need to.

I would start with some basics, like different ways to use chicken breast, how to make steaks...ect.

It's easy to pair steak and chicken with some basic veggies and/or brown rice.

Stir Fry's are pretty easy to learn as well.

Teach him how to use a good cook book, anyone who can follow a cook book can learn to cook.

I might be tempted to stay away from his favorites. If they don't turn out well he may get discouraged.

Perhaps start of with a 30 Minute Meals cookbook and pick out a recipe or two together. They're usually simple and the time commitment is low.