Through out our lives we have many
people who will come and go. Some are mere acquaintances while others we get to
know on a more personal level. Some are family, some are friends. We even meet
strangers along the way that visit for such a short time we don't even remember
their name. The one thing that we have all managed to do with the travelers
that have managed to come calling for a few minutes or with those that stay a
life time, is to break bread. We have broken bread at home, at the office, at a
party, at a restaurant, on vacation, at the beach, in the park, on a boat and
even in an airplane. Just sitting at a counter at a restaurant can lead to an
hour long conversation with a stranger. These days we make relationships on the
computer, whether it is a dating site, a gaming site, Facebook or Pinterest.
Although we may never literally break bread with the people we meet on line,
like the rest of our acquaintances, we are able to exchange thoughts and ideas
and oh yes, RECIPES!
We gather all kinds of RECIPES
throughout our lives. When we are small we gather RECIPES that are a little
different but RECIPES just the same. We learn RECIPES for building friendships,
RECIPES for fitting into the family dynamics. We learned RECIPES that have
helped us to meet all of our needs. As we grow the RECIPES change. We figure
out what we like, what we don't like, what we need, what we want and what we
have. We are all constantly adjusting those RECIPES and sharing the things we
think work and sometimes the things that didn't work. In fact life is full of
RECIPES, some are concoctions of your own. While others you have picked up
along the way from your family, coworkers, strangers, and friends.
I have never quite understood the
copyrights and claims laid to some RECIPES. I can understand if you are
bottling something up, selling and/or marketing it, that you use the same RECIPE
each time and often keep it under lock and key. What I don't understand is how
or why people get upset when they post a RECIPE on the Internet and then they
find a similar RECIPE on another site with the same ingredients and a different
name. Let's take a RECIPE for Macaroni and Cheese for example. My mom made mac
and cheese, everyone in the family loves it so our family calls it Mom's Mac
and Cheese RECIPE. Your mom makes Mac and Cheese and your family loves it so
you claim the RECIPE is Momma's Mac and Cheese. Who is right? I mean really
sometimes things get down right silly. If you don't want people using, re
posting or changing your RECIPE. Then don't post it.
I do not lay claim to the RECIPES I
share on here. I try to give credit where credit is due. However, if great Aunt
Addie copied a RECIPE from the old Crisco can and then passed it down as her
favorite RECIPE, it has now become Aunt Addie's RECIPE in my RECIPE box. I
simply enjoy cooking and experimenting with RECIPES and then sharing what I
think is the best version with my family, friends, and those of you who have
wandered onto my website. Some of the RECIPES posted will be from books,
magazines, the newspaper, blogs, or they could be ones passed down by family,
friends, or strangers that I have managed to collect throughout my life.
The RECIPES posted represent all types of cooking: Traditional,
Gourmet, Continental and Every-day. These RECIPES may not have been laboratory
tested and are not necessarily original, but their mark has been established by family members, friends,
and the most critical group of all……..husbands.
Like the RECIPES of life, take what you want, do with it
what you will and share both the success and the failures with those that enter
into your personal domain.
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