Why do you do this?

Why do you do this?

Mother made Potato Pancakes from eggs and left over mashed potatoes. After I was married and had children I decided to try preparing them for my family. When I repeatedly failed to get the desired results, I did the smart thing and called Mother.

Daughter: "Why do my potato pancakes come out like egg and potato soup?"
Mother: "Because you probably didn't put in enough baking powder."
Daughter: "You're right. I didn't put in any baking powder. How much should I use?"
Mother, in typical mother fashion: "I don't know. Just enough!."

Turning our kitchen into a laboratory, I experimented until I came up with the correct formula to clone my mother's pancakes. At that point I decided my daughter and son, someday, might be interested in having recipes for the foods they knew as children. (That certainly came to pass when they moved away from home. I could count on phone calls, "Mom, how do you make this?" more often than Mom, I love you. How are you?) Gathering recipes family and friends had shared with us over the years, I embarked on the task of putting it all down. In 1988 I distributed the recipes in the original printed cookbook, "A Copy of That Recipe", all created in DOS word processing, distributed by snail mail as Christmas presents.

I encourage you to share family recipes. Do it now while you are thinking about it. Make a welcomed Christmas gift for family members, a young person setting up house keeping, your new daughter- or son-in-law. Even if you don't use a computer, write recipes down on 3x5 cards.

thatrecipe.com is dedicated my family, friends and business associates who have been on my case to create a web site and, especially, to those who have contributed recipes. Here it is, just for you.

Why don't you list the number of serving for each recipe?

We will probably do this sometimes. Serving sizes are a moving target. For meat dishes, figure that a serving size is 3-4 ounces, so any recipe with a pound of meat, should serve about 4 people. If you have ever made a dish from a recipe that stated it "Serves 4" when feeding a teenage son, you know this rule doesn't work.

Why don't you have more vegetable recipes?

Because the best vegetable is an uncooked vegetable! Check out the Kid's Page for some ideas on preparing vegetables for children.

We'll look at some kid-friendly foods, some dishes for them to cook themselves and some inexpensive non-edibles to make for fun like face paint, modeling clay and finger paints.

Why are recipe pages devoid of color and graphics?

Graphics and pictures consume downloading time which is very annoying. Printing graphics consumes ink and toner cartridges and won't make a dish taste any better.



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