Do you modify the recipe as you cook?

[Belinda Barfield]

I also cook by the Julia Child method . . . a little wine for the sauce, a little wine for me.

[Andrew Pitonyak]

when I get to cooking and enjoying a few adult beverages. 99/100 times it will be an awesome meal.

Now that you mention it, my spaghetti sauce always tastes better if I pop a bottle of wine when I start cooking.

[Mike Davis NC]

I make up stuff as I go. I like to watch the chefs on TV and get ideas but never look at recipes. The one thing I did write down some guidelines was my BBQ sauce, the raisins make it special and the molasses makes it dark.

[Mike Cruz]

WOW, I'm in the serious minortity here...

[Leigh Costello]

I am a recipe hoarder. That being said, I seldom use a recipe. I figure someone somewhere sometime ago was asked how something was made so they wrote down what they remembered. And judging by some the recipes I have read, memory is a tricky thing. I have learned what works well together, like my favorite hand-painted wine glass filled to my specs and consumed with wild abandon, and cooking. I only had my hubby turn up his nose once and since then he has developed an impeccable set of taste buds! I have also been appointed to head our church's cookbook committee...this should be very educational...for the cooks as well as myself. I believe all recipes are just a suggestion and are open for modification.

[Marty Paulus]

Now that you mention it, my spaghetti sauce always tastes better if I pop a bottle of wine when I start cooking.

My wife makes an awsome spaghetti sauce. However if she doesn't open a bottle or box when she starts it will not be nearly as good. Now if I can just get her to use fresh herbs each time instead of the dried stuff in the spice cabinet.....