I am totally obsessed with Nanaimo bars. I could eat like a hundred and still not get sick of them. Once, during university, I made Nanaimo bars and ate the whole tray in one week. They are pretty easy to make. No baking involved. Just chilling.
Because his family is a true-to-the-bone pancake family, I really wanted him to share with me the secrets to making a good pancake, thin and delicate, perfectly browned on the outside, soft on the inside. He gave me a recipe, one that he has memorized. A set of very specific instructions, the right temp, the right amount of time for frying. I followed it to a tee, and sure enough, the pancakes came out the way I had always dreamed they would.