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I love cookbooks and cooking blogs. I read them as avidly as I read novels. I love reading both stories and recipes. That said, I don't often use recipes in my cooking. Even when I do, I usually will find something I want to alter in them.( Read more... )
The lessons here, folks, are as follows:
1) Even a creative, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants cook can use recipes once in a while.
2) Even if you're using a recipe, it's OK to change things around to suit your needs and desires.
3) If you're going to do that (and even if you're not), it pays to check out the experiences that other people have had with that recipe and variations on it.
The lessons here, folks, are as follows:
1) Even a creative, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants cook can use recipes once in a while.
2) Even if you're using a recipe, it's OK to change things around to suit your needs and desires.
3) If you're going to do that (and even if you're not), it pays to check out the experiences that other people have had with that recipe and variations on it.
