TheBanyanTree: Baking Blind

[Woofie]

There is a tasty smell wafting out from the kitchen. I suspect it is meatloaf, beecause I printed out the recipe for the Spouse.

 

OK, before you beat me up for forcing the poor spouse into domestic duties like cooking, I have an excuse! Or rather, I had one. Well bugger that.. maybe I will remember tomorrow .

 

What I do remember is that I am using the Spouse as a test bunny for all the recipes which I am going to include in my next book (OK, my first book - oh just shaddap, OK?)

Oh yeah, being blind for a significant part of the recent past, I had to dictate to the Spouse how to cook stuff.

 

Doing so was a challenge in itself, because previously the meals I cooked were not copied literally from some cook book or other, but inspired from same. This meant that I would add and delete from a written recipe. 

Unfortunately the adding and deleting were not measurable - they were just a dash of this and a hunk of that - if I actually thought of measurements at all.

 

Becoming blind and thus not able to cook myself, I was reliant on the Spouse for the daily sustenance.

Now, don't get me wrong. The Spouse can cook up some really tasty meals, however it is not fair to shove a cookbook in front of his face and demand- "Cook that!!"

 

Unfortunately "that"  might turn out terrible.

 

Besides, there were mobs of meals I used to cook which we both liked. The problem was converting them to some literal form that the Spouse could follow.

Not easy.

 

So it became a trial and error experiment.

This meant that I typed (or verbally recounted when I was really blind) the ingredients and measurements.

 

What followed was a "taste test" and what followed that were adjustments to the original recipe until we got it right,                

 

Tonight is my world famous meatloaf.

I hope I got it right…..

 

 

Woofie 😊

 

“I was so much older then…. I am younger than that now” Bob Dylan