Find Sands, he's the real chef around here.
Far from it.
I do like cooking, though. Don't think many others enjoy my cooking too much, but it's enjoyable for me. I'm the world's pickiest eater so I usually do a lot of replacing ingredients if I get a recipe from someone else. Needs all the chili. Eating outside is way too expensive here to do it all the time and fuck the frozen premade shit. It usually doesn't even take that long to make it yourself from scratch and hell, often it even is cheaper.
Baking is awesome. Should be doing more of that but there's only one stomach eating that stuff and usually you get too much. Don't want to be eating cake for days, you know. I do live with someone who requires crepes now and then, so it's always fun to make some. And fast. I'll slap anyone who whines about stuff taking too much time. Unless it actually takes too much time. Then you're free to.
About baking. When you cook food, you're usually pretty free to replace stuff with what you want. Baking isn't like that. Be super careful and really search for what you can replace something with, because otherwise what you're baking will most likely fail. Baking is some crazy chemistry you can't just try to change and expect the same reaction. Measure your stuff really well. Stuff like flour is better measured by their weight than how many cups or whatever it is, because everyone's cup is different. Packed tight or not, do you have to sift it? Those will be different amounts of flour even if they both fill exactly one cup. Enjoy your super hard cake.