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Originally posted by EdSails

I was posting some recipe ideas in the ground beef thread earlier and realized I didn’t put any quantities. when I’m cooking I never do——usually I’ll just put in amounts of "what feels right" based on the main ingredient. When following a recipe, I will use them as a guide—-but not necessarily use the amounts given, adjusting again to my personal tastes. This does pose a problem when I do give out a recipe—-I’m not sure I could come up with the right amounts just out of my head without notating amounts as I write them down. How do you cook? Do you measure, or do it on the fly?

I am definitely in the category of not holding too strictly to ingredient measurements. My family is like this too; we all learned to cook pretty much by feel, smell, and "look." In fact, I remember asking a relative how to prepare a special dish; every question about how much to use of a particular ingredient was met with "use just enough until it looks right"!