It's amazing how much I'd like to be a food snob because I know how to mix herbs and spices and can sniff out the individual herbs that went into a dish, and cook better when I don't follow a recipe precisely as directed in a magazine.  But I have an inability to read recipes--I always leave something out that is called for or don't prep it as prescribed.  And I've learned a lot about cooking from "Worst Cooks in America."  So I've still got a long way to go.  Also, if I have a fantastic dish in mind to try, I can be distracted by cheese.  If the chopping of onions gets too boring and I get too hungry, I'll often forego the osso bucco or tagine and melt American cheese on a tostado shell.  In the nuker.  At least I have the decency to sprinkle it with chipotle powder before I heat it.