I thought I did once as a kid. I used a very old cookbook and made a recipe
for some corn tortillas that I now know were anything but authentic. They
involved using canned hominy and grinding it in a meat grinder. The
tortillas were formed between sheets of waxed paper. They were then chilled
for a while between boards (I used cutting boards) before frying them. It
was a very time consuming process which was just the sort of cooking that I
liked to do as a child.

I made a layered dish out of them. I can't remember what all was involved
but I do remember using canned kidney beans. I would have used dried beans
had any been available to me. I just remember stacking the tortillas on
each plate and putting a layer of filling between. Sort of like those flat
enchiladas (Sonora style) except that I didn't soften the tortillas and I
don't recall putting any sauce over them. Actually more like some weird
stacked tostadas that a place like Taco Bell would be likely to come up
with.

At the time, I thought I had invented something new. I even submitted the
recipe to a magazine and hoped I would win their contest. I did not and I
never made those tortillas again, even though they did taste good. I did
make some others that involved Bisquick. Yep! Not sure where I got that
recipe from.

But more recently... Any time I try to think up something new to make, I
look it up and find that there is already a recipe out there that if not
exactly like what I'm going to make is very similar. I guess it's kind of
hard to come up with a new dish.

My FIL thought I invented something when I fried pasta. Nope. I read about
it somewhere. Dry the leftover pasta off fully. If something like
spaghetti, form it in little mounds before drying. Pan fry it and either
salt it and maybe sprinkle with cheese for a savory snack or use powdered
sugar for a sweet. That's really good, but I didn't invent it.