ABOUT THOSE RECIPES

I (finally) had an email from (I hope) a reader who complained (somewhat) about the fact that I didn’t actually have what she thought were supposed to be what I had called “recipes” (which was what she expected to find, apparently, like they appear on index cards or something...) in my books.

What do I look like, The Galloping Gourmet? (Actually, I look more like Miss Marple, but that’s something else...)

Yes, darlings, I have recipes in my books, just as promised, and there are at least two that I recall in the first one (which I assume is the one this nice lady read by virtue of what she referenced). But, just like Frank Gould, I don’t sit around measuring things out and telling people how long to cook in the books themselves! Really now! He’s a great cook but not a sous chef. And neither am I.

On the other hand if you want something like that, I’m always available to send you actual recipes if you ask. Well, sort of. I mean I actually cook the things Frank cooks, but most of them by the seat of my pants. Or from memory after years of having learned them from others, master chefs.

So, yes, I can send you “real” recipes if you’d like. More than happy to. But you would probably have to do a bit of deciphering to figure them out. A tiny bit of mystery-solving on your own, as it were. Not too much, but more than you might have to do from a regular cookbook, that’s for dang certain.

And, over time I will probably be working in some more complicated items that I really have written down because my memory isn’t that great. So I will be able to simply transpose. But, no, I’m probably never going to reprint the recipes ounce by ounce, minute by minute into the books.

You want them? Come and get them. You know where I am.