Most of the time I cook from someone else's recipe. Book or online. For me, it's interesting and adventurous. My wife, however, likes to make it up as she goes along, only using printed recipes now and then from people like Julia Child or Jacques Pepin whom she really likes a lot.
When I try to cook something up myself just following my nose and not using a recipe I invariably land flat on my face! Those are the ONLY leftovers that always get thrown away here, and they're even lucky if the meal itself is eaten. What's going on, now? Is creative cuisine only for the select few who were born that way? When my mom cooked she may not have used a recipe, but that's only because she had memorized the recipe before I was born!
How do you learn, how CAN you learn how to put things together by yourself? It can't be just trial and error. If it WAS just trial and error at least SOME of my creations would have passed the test! But no. I have to stick to the back of the Campbell's Soup can. Or your recipes or those at Cooks.com. It's a come-down, really. Humiliation. Bad for the self-esteem, you know.
Well, at least my wife likes my pancakes (I follow the back of the Aunt Jemima box assiduously!)
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