I Never Thought It Was So Mind-Tiring To Do This....But  

Yikes I think drawing the ideas out would be even harder, especially for recipes... not that I don't know how to draw...actually I do a lot of sketches and drawings for the short stories or novels I write from floorplans of the homes my characters live in, to a sketch of the facade of the homes..well keep your fingers crossed that AC publishes those articles..hehe..then you can see those recipes on-line

Well thankfully even the very first time I made crepes they came out perfectly...nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
Just kidding...I even joke all the time that I must have inherited my great-grandmother's skill in cooking as she was known as THE cook in our family while my grandmother and mother, if they could, would have burned water...LOL.
Hehe--I love making homemade biscuits...I often add to the batter like grated cheddar cheese and herbs...oh, nuts now I'm hungry! There are some things I've cooked or baked in the past and wonder how I had the patience...I don't think I could do it now...like one year I did a traditional Chocolate Yule Log Cake for Christmas dessert...yeesh, I remember even then how time consuming that was

rotflmao Don't break your arm there Dear one :))))

Quite often whenever I try a new recipe I go exactly "by the book" following it to the letter, but as I get more comfortable with it, I add or omit to my own tastes, so kind of reinventing the recipe

Beware the soup pot, for all it not as it seems...lol.

Well mon ami, for true authentic crepes, they must be paper thin anything thicker and a true French gastronome would faint with horror...quite a bit different from ordinary pancakes...LOL

Maybe so... but it is the taste which count. lol

I find that the thinner the mixture is... the thinner the pancake will be.

Did you ever had pancakes with half milk and half beer? They do that in the North of France.

I did come across a recipe for crepes that uses beer, but never made it...maybe since I'm not a beer drinker?? Hehe

I found a beer made out of a crepe

I almost forgot...years and years ago, I did actually make a beer batter...but it was for a coating to use for fried chicken..does that count? Hehe

Thats exactly what I say Blackbriar, there are somethings you just can not learn from reading it... You have to have visual and hands on instruction.

Exactly! Now go to my professors back in college and explain THAT to them. They just couldn't understand WHY I was having such a difficult time learning.

I remember when I was REAL young and we all still lived with my great-grandmother she allowed me to cook...simple things like frying up bacon, making scrambled eggs--it's a shame my grandmother and mother never really took an interest in cooking as they sure would've gotten great lessons from her. Now if I had watched my grandmother or mother cook, to "learn" from them, I probably would have wound up a terrible cook like them.....hehee

Believe me Goodie, I amaze myself at times with my article writing...a "venture" I only started last year...up until then I considered myself more a fiction writer which is a whole different way of writing and listening to that "voice"--shhh..don't tell anyone I hear voices..

Yup--that is exactly how it is with me

Hehe--you should see how I "measure" when I add wine to my cooking....uh, I used the tried and true method of just pouring it in...LOL

Unfortunately it's against the guidelines to have discussions about recipes...but my first recipe article is now on-line at Associated Content, and the second was accepted and should be on-line maybe by tomorrow..that's the one with the crepes...here is the link to the first one

http://www.associatedcont...

Really, a year ago I did one on good chicken recipes and got some great responses. Like the question and answer section or the poll section, I think they should have a special recipe exchange section.

Yes I never thought it would be so hard to write out a recipe without actually cooking it...I had to do a bit of "visualization" and my two kitties must have thought I was daft as I was talking out the steps out loud..LOL

they probably did