Its Mine All Mine...

    Recipes, who doesn’t want to be the master mind behind creating something delicious, or want to be the hit of the party and impress all the mere mortals that brought the canned dip and chips. When can one actually claim a recipe as being their own? Well, almost all recipes are variations of someone else's brilliant discovery that happened long ago. But there is a way to properly rip someone off. A recipe can be touted as yours after making at least THREE changes to either ingredients and/or cooking method. Could it be any simpler?

   This magic number can be a comfort to the aforementioned dip bringer. The timid cook can feel more at ease and let go of the stress associated with being in the kitchen when they have a base recipe to work off of. And after just a mere 3 changes even a dipper can feel like a bona fide chef with a recipe to call their very own. Cooking is about letting go, being playful; now baking that’s a whole different ball game. Sometimes your food is a flop, sometimes it is sheer mouth bliss (bliss sauce recipe to come!).  So like Frankie says RELAX.

   Side note >> I won’t be posting any recipes until my camera is up and running. I feel obligated to all the foodies to post with photographs. Nothing is worse than opening a cook book and seeing page after page of recipes and no eye candy. Same goes for blogs in my opinion. So sit tight there coming I promise. Now get out there and get cookin’!

Can you identify the “that’s what she said” part of this post? Is that so 2008/09?  Are we over that saying? Ah-well, old habits die hard.