Do you have certain recipe that.....

[Ashworth3715]

is only in your head you have never written it down? Like something you have seen your mother do a hundred times. Well i'll share my example to help make my question a little bit clearer.

I have this delicious potato salad recipe but i make it by taste not by doing measurements or reading a recipe; and it turns out extremely delicious everytime. I tried making the recipe for it but when i do it; it never turns out right. Anyone else have this experience?

 

[Traciray]

Pasta Salad, I have one recipe that I make over and over again but I just end up tossing thing in and never measuring I've made it so much.

 

[Twinmama]

Me too on the pasta salad (which I ripped off from a friend years ago) involving farfalle, grape tomatoes, hearts of palm, mushrooms, flaked tuna, diced artichoke hearts, and balsamic vinegar. I don't always get it right, though, and my husband is always quick to tell me 'this isn't your best version of this." Thanks, hon!

 

[Raquelita]

French toast, vegetable sautees, and oatmeal (with fixin's) are three i never write down and don't have a reference for.

 

[rt49andellis]

french toast, lasagna, meatloaf, spaghetti ... pretty much anything having to do with pasta I just start sticking stuff in the pan

 

[wizkid]

garlic, pepper, red wine marinated, grilled prawns. do it by hand comes out fantastic every time. do it by measure and its just wasted effort

 

[phoenyxstarr]

I used to make pancakes for years that way... just watched how much my mom poured in the bowl, and voila, perfect pancakes. Then I quit making them for the 3 years I was in college and forgot the ingredient ratios. But luckily now that I've been making them every weekend for over a year, its coming back to me. I still have a flat batch every once in a while, but they taste good.