Melba's Jammin' > wrote in
:

> In article >, Arri London
> > wrote:
>
> > Mad Dan wrote:
> > >
> > > Seems there's a lot of resistance round here to consulting
> > > recipes - or at least pride in NOT consulting recipes.
> > >
> > > What's with that? Is consulting a recipe sinful and cheating and
> > > somehow "not proper" cooking then?
> >
> > Just depends on how one was taught to cook. It's not sinful or
> > cheating, but perhaps like consulting a driving manual before one
> > gets into the car each time. If it's necessary then go ahead; if
> > it isn't why take the time.
>
> Your analogy is much better than mine. Although I was *bulding* a
> car, not driving one. "-)

I consult recipes...but not necessarily when cooking.
How can you come up with 'new' food ideas if you don't at least look at
recipes? But how many times do you need to look at the recipe you use to
make your standard made a zillion times meatloaf before you remember it?
Or that breaded pork steak you eat 3-4 times a month or a cheese omlete?
Frankly I don't need a recipe to cook myself a meal, my brain (screwed up
as it is) remembers enough recipes to feed me a large variety of meals.
Just by looking in the fridge I can concoct a meal. Since, by posting
here you must have some sort of 'like' for cooking, it seems likely you'd
know a few recipes by heart or rote. You should also be aware of your
food combination likes/dislikes and your seasoning preferences. So now if
you can cook meat, seasoned the way you like and combine it with a veggie
you like you've got a meal...What recipe?

Sure if you're trying out beer batters for the first time...consult a
recipe or 6. But after a while, you just make the batter. When trying
roasted cauliflower for the first time I looked at the recipe (actually 7
or 8 recipes)...adjusted the seasonings to my taste and cooked it. I
changed the oil from olive oil to canola and changed the spices from
cumin and crushed red peppers to taco seasoning. Now 6 months later I
just cook it. Sometimes I use a curry powder instead of the taco
seasoning though.

This is why it is important to get your parents to write down the recipes
you loved from your past. After a while they just cooked it too.

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No Bread Crumbs were hurt in the making of this Meal.
Type 2 Diabetic 1AC 5.6mmol or 101mg/dl
Continuing to be Manitoban