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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim" data-source="post: 35489" data-attributes="member: 4793">I have been married for more than 50 years. My wife cooks. She follows recipes. She does what is necessary to provide an acceptable result, with minimum effort and in the required time.I am old and have always hated recipes, but liked to cook.As a kid we hunted the woods and picked what vegetation was edible to eat and add to make a meal over an open fire. That is real food.I hunt and we have a large garden. She uses her favorites from it to make her food taste better. I do the cooking 5 days of the week. We eat out 1. And she cooks 1.We live in Nebraska and have a FULL 4 seasons. While I cook on open flame or coal, most of what I do in recent years outside is over my trusty gas Weber grill.Outdoors makes lost of sense, unless you are in the middle of a blizzard or tornado. While my brother claims to grill (BBQ, etc) more than 300 days a year, I live here and we have to resort to learning to cook in the factory too.In the end, while I will never follow a recipe and prefer to trust my God given taste buds, there are times when it is more convenient and easy to just be a factory worker doing what the Man says. I cannot even comprehend the baking, but thankfully she is happy to be a factory drone so I get the best apple pie ever.</blockquote>