Cookin' Up a Storm: Healthy Recipes By Melissa : Tags : recipes

I've been cooking for years, but I've never really used recipes. People ask me all the time "Mmmm -- What did you put in that dish?" And I usually say "A little bit of this and a little bit of that."

I had a dinner party a few weeks ago and a friend of mine wanted to come over early for a little cooking lesson. She was following me around the kitchen with measuring devices, attempting to measure the "this and that" I was tossing into my vegetable and bean concoction. And she tried to take notes.

Well by the end of the night, she was flustered and swore there was no way for her to reproduce anything we had just cooked.

I realized then that "a little bit of this and a little bit of that" isn't a recipe. So now I'm the one trying to take notes on what I do in the kitchen so I can post the recipes. I apologize if I use some vague language (Read: a little bit of this, a little bit of that.) I can't measure everything. But I'm going to do my best.