TheBanyanTree: Baking Blind

[Barb Edlen]

What an absolutely *splendid* idea, Woofie!!!!! I can easily envision how many people this could help! 

Sharing your process of trial & error will resonate with people beyond vision challenges. I faced a similar challenge - which reoccurs when my brain is on overload - after my TBI. I became so frustrated with myself when I couldn’t truly convey innately known cooking measurements & insights to Jim. 

This is a brilliantly inspired idea!! I am soooooo chuffed for you!!

Love you bunches ☀️🌸🦋

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> On Feb 7, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Jena Norton <eudora45 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> I'm trying to do that, too, with some of my favorite recipes. Want to trade meat loaf recipes and compare?
> It's good to have you back!
> Jena Norton 
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>    On Thursday, February 7, 2019, 7:12:06 AM CST, Woofie <woofess at iinet.net.au> wrote:  
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> There is a tasty smell wafting out from the kitchen. I suspect it is meatloaf, beecause I printed out the recipe for the Spouse.
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> 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 .
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> 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?)
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> Oh yeah, being blind for a significant part of the recent past, I had to dictate to the Spouse how to cook stuff.
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> Becoming blind and thus not able to cook myself, I was reliant on the Spouse for the daily sustenance.
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> 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!!"
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> Unfortunately "that"  might turn out terrible.
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> 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.
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> Not easy.
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> So it became a trial and error experiment.
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> This meant that I typed (or verbally recounted when I was really blind) the ingredients and measurements.
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> What followed was a "taste test" and what followed that were adjustments to the original recipe until we got it right,                
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> Tonight is my world famous meatloaf.
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> I hope I got it right…..
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> Woofie 😊
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> “I was so much older then…. I am younger than that now” Bob Dylan
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