On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:58:41 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

> Nina wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:01:12 -0400, "Mocassin Joe"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Before my mother passed away I asked her for her landmark stuffed
>>> mushroom recipe. She gave it to me on the condition, "you can never
>>> give my recipe out". I agreed.
>>>
>>> Now my wife has decided, that she is in charge of making this
>>> recipe. She looked it up in my personal cookbook. What she doesn't
>>> know is that I left out a "secret" ingredient.
>>>
>>> Naturally the dish doesn't come out as expected.
>>>
>>> What should I do??
>>
>> Depends on how you want your mushrooms, I guess.
>>
>> I think I would take "don't give the recipe out" to mean "don't give
>> it out randomly outside of the family." I mean, what is the point of
>> family recipes (if there is one) if they die with the person?
>
> I think he should have hidden his personal cookbook under his
> bridge with his other junk.
>
> nancy

you're a sly one, nancy.

your pal,
blake