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Re: Super Secret Sauce recipe
« Reply #40 on: November 13, 2011, 08:33:10 PM »
BMG,

I love recipes, both following and creating.  But the one main reason I could never work in a professional kitchen is that, to me, all recipes are suggestions.  Whenever I see green bell pepper, for example, that calls for an immediate switch over to sweet red, yellow, or orange (depending on the dish; all three if making sausage and peppers).

I may keep the same ingredients in a recipe time after time, but nothing ever comes out quite the same twice.  Close?  Yes.  But not a standard taste/flavor.  That's why I like experimenting, or putting a lot of food in my food (as a certain unnamed moderator residing in a location between Tierra del Fuego and Point Barrow says).

My kids give me a hard time because I rarely write down any of my discoveries. Sometimes I may make a note ot the basic ingredients so I can remember combinations but even that's rare. Drives them nuts because the older ones want to try to make it and I don't have a recipe I can point them to. 



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Re: Super Secret Sauce recipe
« Reply #41 on: November 13, 2011, 09:29:07 PM »
Quite correct RickZ.  ;D

 Glad you like it. But adjusting recipes is part of cooking,that's why they're called recipes and not formulas.

I have to interject here and say that baking recipes are formulae - chemistry.  That's why my desert baking skills are minimal at best, to be overly generous, sticking with a tried and true favorite:  Grand Marnier chocolate cheesecake.  Now I don't know whether it's the Grand Marnier in the cheesecake, or the tablespoon of Grand Marnier ladled over the whipped cream spooned on top of the slice, or the shot of Grand Marnier served on the side with coffee that makes it a favorite, maybe all three.  All I know is everyone who's eaten it has liked it.  Everything else is stovetop puddings and the like.

Some people are bakers, most are not.

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Re: Super Secret Sauce recipe
« Reply #42 on: November 14, 2011, 08:24:41 PM »

Some people are bakers, most are not.

Was is that you think?    Hmmm, I started out baking.  Had no interest in cooking until I had a family and decided if I had to cook I might as well enjoy it.  I always thought baking was easier and more fun.  Now I rarely bake.
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Re: Super Secret Sauce recipe
« Reply #43 on: November 14, 2011, 09:39:50 PM »
I'm with RickZ on this one.  ;D I'm no baker! I'm just a lowly cook. My Wife on the other hand...she's a baker! lol This is a very good arrangement though...balanced and all that.  ;)

She has a pumpkin pie recipe that she's been refining...MmmmMmmm! She uses black pepper in it but you'd never know that was the secret ingredient unless she told you. She also has a killer rum cake recipe...home made oreo cookies...oy, I better stop...starting to drool. :P
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Re: Super Secret Sauce recipe
« Reply #44 on: November 15, 2011, 09:13:28 AM »
I'm with RickZ on this one.  ;D I'm no baker! I'm just a lowly cook. My Wife on the other hand...she's a baker! lol This is a very good arrangement though...balanced and all that.  ;)

She has a pumpkin pie recipe that she's been refining...MmmmMmmm! She uses black pepper in it but you'd never know that was the secret ingredient unless she told you. She also has a killer rum cake recipe...home made oreo cookies...oy, I better stop...starting to drool. :P

Italian-style rum cake?  Oo oo oo!  Will she share?

A friend recently brought me, as a gift, a "rum cake".  If the cake's base isn't made of sponge-cake layers, it's not a rum cake.
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Re: Super Secret Sauce recipe
« Reply #45 on: November 15, 2011, 11:40:33 AM »
Yes indeed Pan - yellow sponge cake is the base. She uses a tube pan for it though instead of layering the cake. But, I would think that this recipe would work just fine with layers - you'd just need to adjust it as needed! I'll go ahead and post it in a separate thread. :)
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Re: Super Secret Sauce recipe
« Reply #46 on: November 15, 2011, 11:42:02 AM »
Yes indeed Pan - yellow sponge cake is the base. She uses a tube pan for it though instead of layering the cake. But, I would think that this recipe would work just fine with layers - you'd just need to adjust it as needed! I'll go ahead and post it in a separate thread. :)

Thank you!  Much appreciated!
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