I have been thinking about this recently too. For some of us, cooking has been a life-long occupation but for others, its a new concept. Some easy go-to recipes (i.e. minestrone soup, casseroles, crockpot stuff).
In addition, there should be a list of basic tools to make cooking easy. For example, you need 2-3 good, sharp knives and cooking is much easier. Neighbor has a cheap knife set that contains something like 20 knives, but all of them suck. Seriously, they are horrible. Went to use one to cut a potato (basic veggie), and the blade kept bending, giving uneven cuts. I wanted to punt the whole set in the trash.
