Stickler for Recipes
Roland brought some ham home the other day and thought about making a sweet and sour with some of it. We already had sweet and sour chicken leftover in the fridge. I told him to make ham fried rice. He said he needed a recipe. I could not find one that listed all ingredients that we had on hand, and so I printed a couple in order to demonstrate that not all recipes contain the ingredients and that it is possible to alter ingredients. People make mock recipes all the time. I am a substitute who works with what I have. Roland is a letter-to-the-law recipe follower - even down to the measurements. I told him to half the recipe that he chose, but no. He insisted on four cups of rice. And yet we are only two people - sometimes three, but mostly just two as Jenna is a fussy e...