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Miss Manners: i have no recipe to give
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Cooking is one of my passions, and I love to share my food with others. And while I love positive feedback, I am sometimes taken aback by the automatic request for a recipe as soon as someone compliments something I've made.
Unfortunately, I do not use recipes. I am an intuitive cook, who many times throws things together. I have explained several times to these people that I do not use recipes, but continue to get asked.
I am not a curmudgeon, and not trying to keep my creations' ingredients secret; I just don't have the time, energy or memory to remember everything that went into a dish. What would be a good response to the constant, "This is delicious. Recipe, please!"?
GENTLE READER: "I made it up and don't have one. But I'm flattered that you liked it so much. You'll just have to come over again and I'll try to re-create it."
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Why did he make the effort to be pissed? He was half right, but overspecified, and was corrected. It's not like he belongs to a societal group which can Never Be Publicly Wrong or they lose status.
Foolish dude.
(I have definitely noticed as I get better at cooking I get better at interpreting elliptically written recipes, but it's the general experience that helps.)
(also I am contemplating putting a recipe on my cenotaph, hahahah)
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Better start saving! I'm not kidding when I say it's spendy.
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Hahahah maybe I can have someone laminate some cardboard then.
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