On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:40:05 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:

> --Bryan wrote:
>> On Oct 15, 9:53 am, ChattyCathy > wrote:
>>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com
>>>
>>> All this cookalong/RFC recipes talk made me think of this one. So I'm
>>> going to blame Chris Dabney for it...
>>>
>>> Thanks Chris ;-)
>>
>> Occasionally I follow a recipe, but pretty much only for baking.
>
> I usually follow a recipe as closely as possible the first time I try
> it, though I am likely to have come across a recipe in a magazine or
> something and get an idea how to do something and then give it a try
> without the recipe in front of me...... except when baking.
>
> That being said..... I taught my son how to bake chocolate chip cookies
> when he was young. I came home from work one day when he was about 14-15
> and found him making a batch. I was upset because, instead of creaming
> the shortening and sugar with the eggs and then adding the dry
> ingredients as the recipe says, he had put everything into a mixing bowl
> together and was beating them with the electric mixer. I was sure that
> they were going to be ruined. They weren't. They were better than mine.

too funny. but if the pupil never outshone the teacher, we'd never get
anywhere.

your pal,
blake