Do You Follow Recipes?
By Hate2Iron
@Hate2Iron (15724)
Canada
January 10, 2019 11:42am CST
I have to admit that I do unless except in some instances when I can reduce the sugar. Usually no one notices and I like the fact that I'm cutting back in an area that we don't need the extra anyway. My husband never even uses a recipe! He simply starts pulling things out of the cupboard and comes up with amazing dishes!! I couldn't do that if my life depended on it lol!
Do you follow a recipe or can you just wing it like my husband seems to prefer to do!!
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
10 Jan 19
@Hate2Iron Each to his own I suppose. 
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
10 Jan 19
@CarolDM Because of my daughters demand for more chocolate chips in our cookies... guess who is getting a huge bag for Christmas next year. If she wants more chocolate chips, they are coming out of her bag lol!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
10 Jan 19
I can but it depends on what it is. I am not good at winging it on confectionaries. I am not good at baking period.
However I have thrown together foods before and come up with something delicious. I made a sort of chicken and vegetable stir fry once and my family loved it. I made a celery soup out of just a few things we had in the kitchen once. First time I ever made celery soup and it was good. I've not tried since, but I probably couldn't make it again if I did.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
10 Jan 19
@Hate2Iron Lucky You. I am the only one in the house that cooks. I've even asked one family member to "watch the meat" when I had to go to the bathroom. I come back and it's a good thing it wasn't burnt because that is exactly what he did. Didn't even stir it or anything.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
10 Jan 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum LOL... it drives me crazy to turn my kitchen over to other family members!
@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
10 Jan 19
Baking is pretty much all I do. Too many other people in the house who like to cook!
@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
10 Jan 19
depends on if i am cooking or fixing a traditional food that i have made many many times before with only instructions by mouth from family. otherwise, i follow the recipe written on something
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
10 Jan 19
I have about a handful of recipes that I will often use... and then the recipe is marked up like crazy so I know who liked it, who thought it was too salty etc...
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
11 Jan 19
If I can cut down on the butter and the sugar... it usually works out just fine!! Okay, it does affect the flavor, but I would rather go with a bit heathier in exchange!!
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
12 Jan 19
@Hate2Iron I always cut down on fats where I can and I also cut sugar, the taste is even better with less sugar.
@amadeo (111937)
• United States
10 Jan 19
@Hate2Iron that is a gift there.He should have bee a chef.
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
11 Jan 19
Most of the time I follow the recipe, but I get in trouble when I get the urge to be creative.
@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Jan 19
Vince does most of the cooking and he, too, wings it whereas I have to follow a recipe and even then the results can be dicey. I often cut down on sugar in cakes and biscuits too and no-one notices.
@Nevena83 (66063)
• Serbia
11 Jan 19
I often do not follow the recipes. I wish I had a husband who would cook me.
