Every family has someone who writes down recipes in a book, to be used again later. That book becomes almost sacred in some families, because it holds great-great-grandmother Mayda’s secret split-pea soup recipe. And, those recipes get handed down to the kids, etc. It’s cool.
I don’t have one, but Kelly does. One day I found a recipe for something that I wanted to put in her book, and she said I should get my own (fair enough.) But, let’s face it, I’m generally more of an electronic sort of guy, particularly since I’ve already got such long standing domains.
This is my attempt at my own recipe book. This includes things of my own (which I rarely write down, but are rarely the same exact dish twice), and stuff I found on the Internet. Now, I could just set aside and area for links, and call it good. There’s a couple of reason I don’t do that – I hate the format to start off with. I don’t need 6 paragraphs of backstory on the recipe before I actually get to the ingredients list, and have the cooking instructions spread out between 6 different advertisements. Plus, when those sites go under, well, the recipe is gone. This blog turns 10 this year – it’s not going under anytime soon.
And, even when I do follow a recipe, I tend to start improving it – so, I can track my changes and improvements to it.
So, if you start reading though my recipes and find something you like? Enjoy, and leave a comment if you make it (or, most importantly, if you improve it!)
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