Procrastination

Dishes I Like to Cook:
-Chicken and Wine Sauce
-Rice (I cheat because I have a rice cooker)
-Pies (technically not a dish?)
-Quiche
-Crepes
-Cakes (from scratch)
-Oatmeal (this shouldn't really count, since I prefer recipes I've had from other people, and I only ever eat instant oatmeal...)
-Cabbage soup (I really only ever made this for a few months a couple years ago...)
-Leek and potato soup (which my roommates that year said made the entire apartment smell like leeks)
-Various mixes (anything from cake to couscous to I don't know what)
-Pot roast

Dishes I Often/Always Mess Up On:
-Pizza (something about home-made dough eludes my culinary understanding, although I was good for a while)
-Pancakes
-Cakes (from scratch)
-French Toast (I really just messed up this one time in the dorms, but it was quite awful)
-Gravy (I've only made it three times or so, in various forms, but I always do something wrong)
-Lots of other things I've apparently blocked out of my memory
-Whipping Cream (I'm too impatient to wait for it to be completely whipped, so it's a voluntary mistake)

Things I Prefer Others To Do At Meals (Especially If I Cooked):
-Cut any dish that needs it
-Pray
-Decide where to sit
-Start serving themselves/ Help themselves to seconds/thirds/whatever
-Ask for whatever I forgot to put on the table (I don't put salt/pepper/butter on my food and I forget that people do)
-Offering to help clean up, but letting me do the real work in the clean-up process
-Listening to my story about whatever I've cooked (there often is some story to tell about anything I cook)

Things I Like About Cooking:
-Feeding others
-Experimenting
-Creating something (hopefully) pleasurable
-Cleaning before and after (as long as it's my own mess)
-Coordinating and organizing a meal
-The smell of freshly baked goods
-Learning about what tastes good and what doesn't
-(For some) The history of a dish
-Eating

Things I Don't Like About Cooking:
-Being subjected to others' tastes/likes/dislikes/allergies
-Making a mess
-Messing up (it always happens, but it's usually easy to fix/hide)
-Smelly kitchens/apartments/houses from smelly ingredients
-Not making enough for everyone
-Worrying about feeding everyone (usually I actually end up with a ridiculous amount of food because of this)
-Hard-to-find ingredients

My Favorite (Home-Made) Meals:
-Grilled Sardines (at a Provencal restaurant in Paris)
-Most sandwiches from Study Abroad
-Galettes in Brittany
-Chicken and Wine Sauce (with rice, rolls, bananas)
-Home-made pizza
-Tartine with chocolate milk
-Tomato soup with a tuna melt
-Peas and Tuna (I think I'm the only one I know who likes this. You do add salt and pepper...)
-Fondue
-Pretty much any meal with friends, and most with family