I wouldn't ask you to pay for something like that...!

[He's absolutely not that good! More importantly,] I won't ask you to pay for the food, either. The ingredients are free, and I had already made them...

[But, actually, isn't there something that he could be doing in return anyway?]

But... if you could do something like describe them? If you just wanna write it down on your tablet and send it my way, that would be plenty helpful.