These weren't on the ask list, but what is your favorite cuisine? Do you like spicy food or nah, do you tend more towards baking or cooking? I cannot bake and don't like sweets but I'm always impressed by people who can and I'm always curious to find new recipes to try since I'm really into cooking lately. Thanks!
OH, what a fun question!!
I have pretty varied tastes but my favorite cuisine to cook at home is probably Mexican food! (Or, arguably "Tex-Mex" because I'm living in Canada these days & can't get "authentic Mex" ingredients very easily.) It's hard to do "wrong," very adjustable to taste/whims, and the leftovers tend to reheat well. I could eat homemade pico de gallo and salsa verde with a spoon by themselves, and they're so easy to make. Tacos al pastor? Absolutely incredible (though I do cheat - I don't have a roasting spit, haha). Mexican street corn? Delicious. I wish I could get cotija cheese up here.
Personally, I like spicy food as an adventure, but I prefer a self-administered spicy condiment or a mild-spiced dish for a meal because I don't like the heat eclipsing the flavors. Like, I love me some pickled jalapenos, but some of the Carribean recipes I've tried use an amount of scotch bonnet peppers I cannot survive. Spice tolerance is so individual. And, independent of that, gastrointestinal spice tolerance. Oof.
As for whether I prefer cooking or baking, I'm the primary cook of the household, do most of the cooking, and I greatly enjoy both! I'd say I have more fun with baking though, just because I don't do it every day. Like sure, whipping eggs or creaming sugar isn't less work than chopping veggies, but I only have to do it when I want to. And so, it feels more like play. Plus, I like that you don't have to "babysit" baked goods in the oven as much as you have to watch stuff on the stove.
Of course, another reason baking feels easier to me is because I'm completely indifferent to how it looks in the end. I'm after taste and texture only. I experience 0% stress over making an ugly cake with poorly applied frosting. IT'S ALL GOING TO THE SAME PLACE IN THE END!
