Cooking

I'm not much of a cook. Let me explain. I don't particularly enjoy cooking...taking hours and hours cutting, slicing, measuring, etc. and then it only takes 5 minutes to eat it - doesn't seem efficient to me. Anyhoo, I'm actually a pretty good cook, because I follow the recipe, so if it's a good recipe, it'll taste good. I'm not the kind of cook that can "taste test" a recipe and add a pinch of this or a dash of that. I tried that once...and the results were not pretty, so I stick to the recipe. Problem is that I've got a boat load of recipes from my mother-in-law (who's a fabulous cook), and, getting beyond reading her handwriting, she does the pinch/dash method. I usually have to have the Ol' Man interpret the recipe for me and help me the first time, so I can figure it out. I made fish cakes tonight (the recipe was on the back of the bag of fish), and what a pain in the a**. Remind me never to work in a fish cake factory. Getting the bread crumbs to stick - ack! Keep the faith that it tastes good....