TheBanyanTree: Baking Blind

[Jeri Xiques]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:41 AM Jeri Xiques <jer.xiques at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex once asked a lady who cooked for his family how much of this or that
> ingredient she used in a dish, and she responded, “I don’t measure, I just
> put.”
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> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:34 AM Barb Edlen <mountainwhisper at att.net> wrote:
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>> What an absolutely *splendid* idea, Woofie!!!!! I can easily envision how
>> many people this could help!
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>> 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.
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>> This is a brilliantly inspired idea!! I am soooooo chuffed for you!!
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>> Love you bunches ☀️🌸🦋
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>> > ✿*ﾟ‘ﾟ･.｡.:*
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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
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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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