Plum Pie with a Cream Cheese Crust, Granola, Caramel Fudge and Nectarine Sorbet
When I cook I am experimenting, constantly. Over the years I have developed enough knowledge to be able to cook well enough (and safe enough) to the point where I don’t worry about the risk of completely destroying a dish all that often. Sure it happens as often as it needs to, I screw up big time and must start over, but I can usually save my chaotic cooking efforts and turn them in to something new and unexpected.
This is why I rarely follow the recipe. Recipe’s are a great way to start out understanding how cooking works, to see basic details as to how you cook something, what pairs well with it, how long it has to marinade for, etc. But what are the long term effects of recipe following? Dependence? Withdrawal? Loss of self? Robotic Love? Uncontrollable urination? There was one night a few years ago when I was making cookies for a halloween party, and for the sake of the story, lets just say I wasn’t in the same head I am usually in, and so I skipped a “critical” direction. “Shit, I have to start over again”.
“Wait, how do I know that the recipe I am following is right? For all I know this “mistake” that I made may turn out to create the worlds perfect cookie. But all this time I had listened to what Mr. Micookerton said in his recipe and assumed HE was right” (All of this conversation happened in my head). Point is, how do I KNOW he is right?
Sure, this blog will continue to house recipe’s, tips, and all things cooking, but there are plenty of blogs out there, with plenty of delicious recipes, for you to search for and figure out yourself. Between the amount of stuff on the internet and the various places saying “my recipe is the best”, “No mine is the best” “no trust me, this one is the best”, you have enough on your plate as is, why not try to take in what they all say and rationally figure out what makes the most sense? Stealing from parts of each. It is not unlike starting a band. You have yet to find “your sound” yet and so you grab bits and pieces from all the bands that you like and see where that gets you. This is how I learned how to “borrow” from recipes, housing as much knowledge as I could to create something unique and special to my own understanding.
