How many of you are like me? You don't use recipes or use them as a loose guideline?!
Answers: I don't think I have ever been given a recipe with out jazzing it up or changing it. Sometimes even to the point of having to rename the dish. 100% my way of cooking. Definitely, never measure anything-just eyeball everything and still turns out good? I have great sucess with this.
I generally will make something the way the recipe states the first time, then I tweak it to fit my tastes. By preparing it once the regular way I can develop a lot of ideas of what would perk up the existing flavors.
Yeah, I think that's the best way to get unique, fun, tasty results.
I do the same thing, use the original ingredients as a guideline, but add my SavvyFatty twist to it. ;-)
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the only way to cook is your own way. cooking is instinctual and nyone can do it. the food also tastes a lot better when its made to your own specifications
Absolutly! That way it's more flavorful and home made! I always have much better luck doing it my way. Especially things like soups.
The only time that true measurements really come into matter much is in baking, there a slight variation in certain elements could throw it off.
However a well seasoned chef, and even some bakers,
don't measure things often.
Once you have the basic skill sets of how to create certain things elemental in cooking, all the rest is just a science
experiment.
Rock On!
Ooh me, I never ever use recipes! Sometimes I will get an inspiration from a recipe but I don't think I've ever followed a recipe correctly.
Recipies are just rough guidelines. Normaly I adjust recipies as I go according to my taste. Some of my best dishs are done without using recipies.
I do the same thing. As long as you know the basics of how to cook the food, you can do just about anything you want to it, like substituting in recipes or adding different spices, toppings, and herbs to it.
Isn't that the way every one cooks???? I have been eye-balling ingredients since I started cooking. From making tortillas to backing bread. Its much easier I think.
Just had to post to this question.. as a general rule, the first time i do a recipe, i will follow the directions. Sometimes if i think it calls for too much salt, i will use less. The second time thru i do something different to it. i have this one recipe i make all the time and it has changed so much from the original. Still the same ingredients, just different. My grandmothers way of giving a recipe is "Add until it looks right" or "Just dump it in" I wont lie and say everything i cook comes out great, but i have found out that when i dont measure or follow the recipe, it turns out better than when i do follow the recipe. Awesome question, have never seen that one before
I love to try new recipes. Usually I make them as is but the next time I add my own twist. Sometimes I can't decide between two similar recipes and then I combine them with what I like about each one.
I'm a raw vegan, so, when I find new recipes that sound good, I try to figure out a way to make it with raw ingredients...
When I am looking at a recipe in a recipe book, I usually think about what it would taste like if I added this, or I took out that, depending on my personal taste.
Then, again, I am not the most careful measurer. I only measure level teaspoonfuls when I am doing the Master Cleanse. Otherwise, I just measure and add .... it might well be a heaping teaspoonful or tablespoonful, depending on my taste.
I'm the same way, always have been, since I started cooking when I was 12 years old.