Cooking With Imprecision (and a most amazing .wiki)

As a younger Alan, I could never forecast a future where I might be writing about enjoying cooking. That’s for other people! While I always haved loved food and eating it, strangely I am now at a point where the process, especially the inventiveness of it, is rather exciting. I mean to go from a collection of various ingredients to a meal one can share is enjoyable. As right now I am making zucchini pancakes without any kind of recipe nor measusing ingredients, loosely based on how my mom described making potato latkes, I’m blogging in my head (well the idea has been simmering there as the title). My lessons are (maybe as I have not written it), recipes are helpful guides, but need not always be followed to the letter; why buy pre-packaged mixes when you can use stuff on the shelf, cooking is experimental, and it’s a metaphor I have rolled out often. But what there is more- stick around to the end for a most amazing web site for dealing with recipes. You will not be disappointed. I…