On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:48:03 -0600, Pennyaline
> wrote:

>The OP is no cook. A recipe follower, yes, but not a cook. When one is
>so rigid that he or she can only follow a recipe without the flexibility
>to make the dish his or her own, that person may as well just eat out.

A recipe follower is usually a "beginner" cook. Everyone has to start
somewhere. Some people need to be told explicitly that it's possible
to split or multiply a recipe and they won't need a calculator because
ingredient amounts don't have to be absolutely exact.


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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.