TheBanyanTree: Baking Blind

[Jena Norton]

Yes, Jeri, it's good to hear from you! Have missed your smiling words!
Jena Norton 

    On Thursday, February 7, 2019, 9:50:46 AM CST, Barb Edlen <mountainwhisper at att.net> wrote:  
 
 I love that, Jeri. It would make a perfect kitchen sign! 

I am tickled pink to see you post!!

Love you, beautiful lady 🌼🌿🦋

> ✿*ﾟ‘ﾟ･.｡.:*


> On Feb 7, 2019, at 10:41 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.”
> 
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:34 AM Barb Edlen <mountainwhisper at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 ☀️🌸🦋
>> 
>>> ✿*ﾟ‘ﾟ･.｡.:*
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 7, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Jena Norton <eudora45 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>>  On Thursday, February 7, 2019, 7:12:06 AM CST, Woofie <
>> woofess at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
> 
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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