I don’t measure.

I have been wanting to make a cookbook. (Not published cookbook – but one for me. Something that I can keep all my foods in order with.)

Recently Boyfriend &&& I bought a notebook so I can finally make that cookbook. I took it out tonight to start writing in a few recipes I could think of right off hand. But as I was writing in it I realized something…

I don’t know measurements.

Why? The answer is simple. I don’t measure. I add things in by taste and sight. I have been like that since I began cooking. Every cookbook I have ever read has always had measurements (not that I follow them) and not just a bunch of ingredients and ramblings about how to make it.

But here I am. A big cookbook loser! I’m kind of faking it but there are things I use in recipes that I don’t measure that if you tell someone, “Just pour until you think it’s enough”, they’d think you were crazy. But that’s where I’m at.

Olive oil. For an example – I never measure it. Not because I don’t know how, but because I use sight and taste. I’ve always figured that’s just as good. Is it, isn’t it? It’s worked for me, anyway.

Seasonings. Pepper, salt, paprika, etc… No measuring.

Liquids… sometimes, okay, most of the time. I just pour. Taste. Taste. Season. Taste. Taste.

Meh. I think I’ll just write what I want to write and just deal with it. (I just laughed to myself.) It’s not as if someone else will ever see it. I have no one to pass it down to, so it’ll just decay when I’m gone. So I guess it technically doesn’t matter.

Then why am I complaining? Am I complaining?