Do you cook from recipes or stratch?

[melodylogan45]

Are you one of those great fancy cooks that can throw some ingredients
together and make a fanastic meal or a more basic cook that prepares meals
via recipes.

[mgint]

use a recipe for some things like desserts

[djohnson43]

I will definitely use a recipe if I have for baking and especially when I am doing some of my daddy's meals I love. But there are time I will just throw things together. Not as often as my husband does but oh well. 

[Nancy5]

I probably do both.  There have been many times I 'made up' a recipe and has been so good, but then there have been other times when my creation found its way into the garbage and thank god for pizza or McDonalds!

[braggin]

I don't do much cooking as my husband does most of the food shopping and cooking in our household. He can make magic meals appear from nothing, it seems. He never uses recipes and yet everything he makes tastes just wonderful. He really enjoys cooking and has a natural talent for it.

[gsdoss]

I do both and have been a cook for over 40 years and use that at home.

[linderlizzie]

Both!! There are some recipes that I would not deviate from, but it's just as fun to throw good ingredients together and come up with something new.

Most of them time you can't recreate it later on, but that's just part of the fun of it. 

[oldbuddy]

Hey I made a Jello this morning, but I did look on the box for the recipe.

[dogsleash]

BOTH ,

 mostly i cook meals from scratch and i always bake from a recipe ...

[catchow]

I do both, sometimes I do get tired of the same old things to cook, so try a new recipe on occasion Otherwise yes I like to throw things together, they arent always great, now and again I get a bomb lol

[sfreeman8]

I don't do much cooking as my husband does most of the food shopping and cooking in our household. He can make magic meals appear from nothing, it seems. He never uses recipes and yet everything he makes tastes just wonderful. He really enjoys cooking and has a natural talent for it.

I'd be so happy if my hubs would cook at least once a week to give me a break. His idea of cooking is to call the local pizza place for a pick-up order.

Even when I could barely walk from my one surgery, he was kind enough to put a chair at the stove so I could sit while cooking, but I guess that's my fault because I kept trying to force myself to do everything like I did before the surgery.

I do throw things together at times for something new-but- not-exciting, and it's usually "bland" because I don't use enough spices.  Lately, though, I've been having to use recipes because I'm starting to forget an ingredient or two.

On my made-up recipes, I write everything down and then give it a rating after we try it. I even keep the "no good" ratings so I never make it again.    

[jmc1982]

Mostly from recipes but sometimes when I have to make something quick just whatever i can find

[bretay]

i like to cook as much as i can from scratch...especially being allergic to dairy and being prediabetic..that way i can control the ingredients and know what i am eating

[aharr1]

I would not even know where to begin if i cooked anything from scratch my sweetheart is the cook anyways i clean up! And i am totally fine with that deal

[sdenimandlace1]

I use both, mostly just through it in.