Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for June 05, 2021

cannot be more simple than that (the recipe for carne asada)

wouldn’t they be in Spanish?

I had a friend who whenever you asked for a recipe, she would leave out a key ingredient, so it was never quite as good as hers.

Cooking is art, baking is science. And recipes (for cooking) should be taken as suggestions you can vary according to personal taste (and ingredients on hand).

My mother made things and even though I have the recipes, I can’t make them the same.

Perhaps, but it leaves a lot of room for improvisation…

I’m guessing one ingredient is always included and doesn’t have to be stated. Love!

There was a Dick vanDyke episode on this subject. Laura’s best friend Millie asks for the recipe of Laura’s signature hors d’oeuve. She finally gives it.Night of the party:Millie: I don’t know, Laura, it just isn’t as good as yours.Laura:Rob: You left out the pickles.Millie: !

i learned to cook with my grandmother, who had worked in family bakery, and she called the recipe a “suggestion”

Looks like those recipe cards will be worthless, Carmen.

The recipe I’m most sorry about not getting was my Grandmother’s Oatmeal Cookie recipe.

Not that she was Secretive about it.

She just died before it ever occurred to me to Ask for it.

She knew what she meant.

Reminds me of the Technical Challenges in the Great British Bake-Off/Baking Show.

Grandpa swore he would take his chicken gumbo recipe with him to his grave.

I asked my mom a couple of years ago for the “secret family Passover recipes” as husband (not Jewish) and I (am Jewish) were having dinner by ourselves (had bedbugs – no longer go to anyone’s house). She mailed them to me – they are copied off of the packages of the Kosher for Passover foods!