Ask HN: Would you mind sharing any hobbies or activities you enjoy?

I draw rarely but I think I draw instinctively well (sort of gifted if you want, nothing to be proud of, nothing spectacular neither, just some ease). No doubt if I had training I'd be a decent artist (I'd be mostly interested in drawing anatomy, natural things, etc.). But well, I sort of totally preferred computers the last 40 years so, drawing was not much developped :-)

I learned cooking on my own with a book that is given in some schools where they teach catering and cooking. So I got the basics of french cuisine (I'm french speaking). Took me 2-3 years to understand things. I'm more in traditional cuisine, which is old be heavily documented (and hard to master nevertheless :-)). I did it because I wanted to do something else than coding and something that doesn't require spare time: I cook for the family :-)

Learning to draw should be more frustrating if you don't "have it", but you can for sure (people undersestimate how good they can draw). OTOH, learning how to cook gives much quicker rewards !