On Sun 30 Jan 2005 11:06:36p, Damsel in dis Dress wrote in
rec.food.cooking:

> On 30 Jan 2005 21:04:24 -0800, "Leila" >
> wrote:
>
>>I made potato salad from
>>scratch, using a recipe. I'm out of practice with potato salad and
>>wanted to get it right - always did it by instinct before, but the last
>>time I made American style potato salad was sometime in the 80s.
>
> My memory isn't what it used to be, and there are a lot of things I just
> toss together. A few years ago, I decided to put my "little of this and
> little of that" stuff into bona fide recipe formats in MasterCook. This
> includes vegetable beef soup, dilled potato salad, even tuna sandwiches.
> I want to make sure that if I'm first to kick off, Crash can still make
> "my" food. It also helps me already, because I'm not always able to
> remember how I accomplished things in the past.
>
> Does anyone else do this?
>
> Carol

Yep, I started doing that a couple of years ago. As I would make
something I liked and refined it to specifics, I entered it into
MasterCook. I've also tried to do that with things my mom "told" me how
to make. Lest I forget why something tasted the way it used to taste, I
can back to the basics.

Wayne