On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:06:36 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
> wrote:

>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

i've done that with a couple of things, but i'm not that inventive a
cook. but i'd guess 90% percent of us write in cookbooks.

your pal,
blake