Prepare foods to YOUR TASTE. With just a few changes to many foods, a little more of this or add a little of that or take something out and you have a different taste.
Most cooks have several recipe books. Each of these books can contain hundreds of recipes. You can change the hundreds of recipes found in books, in different ways, to effectively give you thousands of new recipes.
Everyone is different and everyone has different taste. With just a little imagination, you can vastly change the flavor of most of your meals, and change them to your taste. Make the same foods taste better to you. Don?t follow your present recipes to the letter, take out or use less of ingredients you don?t particularly care for. Add the things you like.
The first time you try a new recipe follow it to the letter, so you will know you have it right and know how it was meant to taste. Then start changing it until you get your taste.
I don?t give specific amounts of ingredients most of the time. If a recipe calls for sugar, salt, pepper, cinnamon, mayonnaise or whatever, add enough so it taste best to you. Some things cooked with the amounts of various ingredients I like would be too sweet or to sour or to hot or to salty for your taste.
I am not in the league with many on Gather who cook a lot. I wrote a long
article on cooking several years ago which I think would help the average
cook. This article was the first part of it. If I get a good response on this
article, I will try to break the other down and publish some of it.


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Once I have an approximate recipe that I like I file it away in my mind and prepare an infinite number of variations.
Barbara, That is exactly what I'm talking about. If I write more of the article I will try to give ideas on doing that.
I have become very fond of recipe-less cooking. The recipes for ones I make up are more a list of ingredients than anything else. And I love to take a recipe and tinker with it and change it.
One of my favorite modifications is I add a hadful of corn meal or grits to my pancake and waffle batters to add that extra crispness. It's more of a textural thing than a taste thing. I learned this from my Father-In-Law. Thanks for the tips am looking forward to reading the rest.