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[quote=Anonymous]In posting on two other threads, and from previous experience, I realized that it's hard to share recipes when you don't really use them.

I mean, I LOVE recipes and have a wonderful library of cookbooks that i enjoy nothing more than to pore over on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Ditto food blogs and websites. But when it comes to the actual cooking part, I always find myself fusing two or more similar recipes or altering this or that, even if it's the first time I've made something. This is especially problematic when friends ask for recipes, or when DH is cooking because he feels like his stuff never tastes like mine, even if he follows the recipe to a T. I've tried to explain it's because I usually only use a recipe as a guideline. The end result almost always earns positive reviews so I seem to be on the right track. Part of me feels a little guilty knowing someone spent a year perfecting the recipe that I didn't even try, but changed.

I suppose this is due to my "pinch of this, dash of that" grandmother, who coached me with a wood oven and kitchen knife long before I shouldn't yet have had access to either.

When I bake, I'm usually a little more diligent, but I'm starting to wonder if my laxness on recipes is abnormal? DH and most of my friends are "if it says one quarter teaspoon, that's what I'm adding" type of folk. I really have a hard time explaining to them how to reproduce what I've made.

So.. Any other confessed recipe bastardizers here?[/quote]

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