On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:06:06 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:

>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Sun 29 Jun 2008 03:45:05p, Jean B. told us...
>>
>>> Sheldon wrote:
>>>> On Jun 28, 3:57�am, Christine > wrote:
>>>>> Heya folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> I did it again. �And I was just getting ready to back everything
>>>>> up...I even got a new backup hard drive. �But not soon enough, it
>>>>> seems. �My hard drive, or something caused my laptop to die. �
>>>>>
>>>>> So..I lost all recipes. � I have been saving tons of them from rfc
>>>>> for years now.
>>>> But why... is this recipe saving some sort of fetish... you certainly
>>>> can't possibly need to refer to more than a couple dozen recipes in
>>>> your lifetime... no one needs a recipe for stews, soups, salads,
>>>> caseroles, sandwiches, egg dishes, meat dishes, vegetable dishes...
>>>> unless you're canning/preserving, making sausage, confections, and
>>>> certain baked goods where ratios are important no one who can cook even
>>>> a little bit needs a recipe after the first undertaking.
>>
>> I can certainly cook without recipes and probably do that most of the time.
>> However, if I want to precisely duplicate a particular dish that was either
>> from a written recipe or one that I devised on my own, I want it stored as
>> created. May recipes in my cookbooks have my notations written to indicate
>> what I did differently.
>>
>>> Some might be heirloom recipes--or recipes destined for one's
>>> progeny. But yes, one could say I'm obsessed. :-)
>>
>> Absolute agree.
>>
>And I agree about recipes we have tinkered to perfection.
>Besides, I no longer have a steel-trap mind! <g>

sheldon's just a wild and crazy, live-in-the-moment type guy. no
tight-ass he!

your pal,
blake
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