Ok, I might as well go first: I wish I could draw. Not at the level where I could make photorealistic portraits, but I’ve always been envious of those who are able to scetch something together in a few minutes that perfectly captures what they want to convey. Sometimes words aren’t enough to express what I want to say, and for those situations I would love to have a simple drawing do the talking for me.
My wife can read a a cookbook (or a recipe in general) and instantly contextualize what she’s reading. If I could do that, too, there’d be a lot less strain in our marriage.
For that matter, remembering a list of more than three things for more than twenty minutes, that’s abother one.
What does it mean to contextualize a recipe?
Not just understand the words as written, but how it works in terms of organization, timing, and presentation.
So are they like complex meals where you have different ingredients you have to prepare speratly but then have to combine at some point of serving?
I sometimes cook pasta and make my own sauce (with stuff from the supermarket). I learned I have to set up the pasta roughly 5 minutes before starting the sauce. And I do this like once a months.
I’m not saying there isn’t an art to preparing more complex food. But how bad are you at appriciating them that it actually causes problems in your relationship?
You aren’t Gordon Ramsay, right?