ooo..Anna..I feel the pain! I can't eat anything hotsy-totsy...I like to taste and enjoy instead of sopping my tongue with tons of bread! At a Sweet 16" party (yes, youngsters we used to do that) I mistook hot pepper for oregano (ok it was dark in there) ..Needless to say....I also learned NEVER to ask the servers how hot something is (I ordered gumbo a few weeks ago) cause one person's hot is NOT anothers...There went my dinner... In New Orleans, 4 friends of mine entered a hot sauce contest! On the last taste, my one friend who LOVES hot stuff, very quietly said,,"oh, that's not."..*swallows* (no reaction) then SCREAMS *** HOT! She was tearing from pain and I was tearing from ROTFL! Oh. got carried away.. to answer your question.. in all modesty I love to cook and my boyfriend and family will luckily eat anything..I'm not "fancy" but I use a lot of condiments (no hot flakes ) and make up stuff. If and when I have time to bake, it's from scratch. Cooking and eating are at least 2 things I'm decent at...furgetabout other household duties ...