While skimming through my recipe book trying to decide what recipe to add next, I realized that it was filled with someone else’s recipes. Page after page I flipped through finding recipes from all different websites, copycat recipes from restaurants, hand written recipes from friends. Other people’s recipes. And then I thought, “Do I not have a single recipe of my very own”?
 
But I do…
Because for every mouth-watering method I have printed in that binder, I have made those recipes my own. If I thought that the Holy Guacamole recipe would taste better with lime juice instead of lemon juice, I changed it. If I thought that the recipe for Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies would taste that much better with expresso powder, I added it. And sometimes my changes came from having to substitute ingredients I just couldn’t eat.
 
My point being that when you make changes to a recipe (for the better, I would hope) to suit your family’s tastes, you’re in a sense creating your own recipe. Have you ever gone back and looked at the original recipe that you’ve been making for years? Look how much you’ve changed it by tweeking this or deleting that. You’ve made it your own.
 
But what if you’re one of those cooks that’s terrified to stray from the original? That’s why I’m here. I want to inpsire you to bring out your own creativity. I want you to question your old standby recipes. I want you to look at them in a new light. Even if you only have a dozen recipes in your collection, by changing one or two ingredients you can create a whole new recipe. Your own recipe.
 
So be brave…I’m here to help inspire you. Help you build your own binder of new family favorites.