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[quote=Anonymous]I have to admit that I love to share my recipes.  I actually get pretty excited about it and my inner conversation is this:  "Hooray!!!  Someone LIKES it, they like it SOOO much that they want to make it themselves, yippee!!!".  So I'm thrilled when anyone asks.  It has worked well except for one time.

I gave a recipe for Moroccan Carrots to a young woman who raved about them when I served them at a buffet dinner.  I was pretty thrilled she liked them because she and her husband were just starting out and super nice.  Anyway, a few months later we were with a different group at a potluck and there was this young woman and her husband.  She was so proud to tell me that she had made my dish!  I was pretty excited, too, until we got to the buffet table.  We looked and, yup, there was something on the buffet table but it sure didn't look anything like my recipe.  Turns out it didn't taste anything like it either.  Turns out the young woman had made lots of substitutions and deviated significantly from the recipe.  She was excited to talk about it, which was fine, but it was a little disconcerting that she kept telling everyone that it was my recipe and then you could tell by the looks on their faces that it just wasn't to their tastes.

Honestly, I'm not sure I could do anything differently.  I still get excited when someone asks for a recipe but now I do always have a secret hope that if the recipient makes changes then they make them for the better not the worse.[/quote]

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