Recipes

I love cookbooks. My family seems to go from cuisine to cuisine finding a certain type of food that they like. So I go to the library and get every cookbook from that style of food. (We are stuck on Mediterranean right now.) Then I read recipe after recipe looking for something this allergy ridden family will like. I try not to make multiple meals to suit everyone. To much work, unless it is sweets, that is never to much work. Usually, I can figure out what the basic spices and combinations are to make reasonable facsimiles of the dishes in the book. Here is my confession, I hate following recipes! With a passion!!!! It is part of my nonconformity issue. I confess I have control issues. There I said it, it is out in the open. So even a recipe is too structured for me. I still love cookbooks though. I love to look at the pictures of beautifully plated food, often wanting the plates almost as much as the food. I love figuring out the puzzle that makes each type of food unique. As I look through the blog sites of the wonderful women who enjoy the art of frugal living, I see a ton of recipes that interest me. I may even try a couple. Or, I may just look at the wonderful pictures, figure out the basics and try my own version ^.^