When you have a problem that you can't think your way out of it can be useful to write it down. Theory (I think) is that writing it down allows you objectise your problem and see it clearly, in order to find a solution. Well, thats all well and good, but if you didnt really have a problem, but you found something to write about anyway then does it let your otherwise fleeting thoughts crystallise? i.e. do you make an issue where there was none?
Has the blog of dob made me into a bumbling idiot? I probably always thought the thoughts, but wheras they would simply have been dismissed, now they get written down and thought about more. There's nothing like psyching yourself out...
Changing the subject completely - flapjack. I have stopped weighing out the ingredients. The preferred method now is just to do handfuls and guesstimate. I have managed to reduce the sugar and butter content and make a healthier slower release snack in the process. The principles of flapjack making are simple - you bind one thing together with something else that will set. The trick is in getting the proportion of setting agent to content right, which is a relationship best determined by trial and error.
Being able to cook is not being able to follow a recipe, its being able not to follow a recipe.
2 comments:
Can you reveal to me how to NOT follow your own chocolate and protein shake flapjack recipe. It was lush!
Wise thoughts on both issues. Maybe you need to apply the zen of the flapjack to climbing??
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