What are You cooking?

[user328]

Anybody who needs to cook from recipes has no place to bitch about anyone else's cooking.

The only exception to that rule is anyone over 80 years old.

She's 75 and disabled. She knows how to cook, but she can't physically do it anymore.

She's a picky eater. If she'd just leave me alone and let me cook what I know how to cook, she'd be happier with the results. Can't tell a Boomer anything though.

I started on recipes, but I haven't used one in years unless it was for cookie dough, which I had to learn about in 2020.

I wouldn't give a cookbook to a young person just starting out. I'd tell them to sign up for Hello Fresh and do that for a couple of months. It's an easy way to learn broadly applicable techniques.

I do write down some recipes, such as dumpling dough for chicken and dumplings, because I don't cook it often enough to remember how much of what goes in it. When I was cooking for myself years ago, I cooked chicken and dumplings a lot, and I could crank them out without thinking about it.

I also sometimes have to refer to a recipe when there are so many ingredients in it that I can't remember them all.