Do you share your recipes with friends?

[Katy Belle]

Do you share your recipes with friends? I do. I never understood why people wouldn't share recipes...until now. We live in a compound, basically just a gated community, with other people that work for the same company. We are all very close. We have pot-luck dinners a lot. I love to cook and have always loved to share recipes. But now when we have a pot-luck someone usually brings one of my recipes. Its a little weird and I'm feeling like I cannot repeat things because someone else might be bringing it. So far I've known they are bringing it because we coordinate.

I will continue to share recipes, it just is feeling a bit weird.

Katy

 

[piratesmate]

I've never understood the whole "secret recipe" thing either. Really, it's a big compliment to have someone like your recipe enough to bring it to a potluck although I'm sure it feels weird if there are only a few people...then you wouldn't want things duplicated. At our church picnics & potlucks you often see the same recipe in 5 or 6 bowls LOL but it doesn't matter so much since it's such a large group. Of course I continue to change things so mine are never the same twice...not so much because I'm trying to make it better - it's more because I'm constantly out of something & have to substitute!

Maybe you could just say when you share "just let me know if you're going to bring it to a potluck so we don't both bring it"? Or something along those lines...

 

[MazdaUK]

I always share recipes because I know no-one can make it like me

A friend of my mother was very funny about sharing recipes -she'd give you the recipe, but the wrong oven temperature/time, or leave out an ingredient. Just plain weird!

I've got several friends hooked on Pampered Chef's hot broccoli dip, so much so that we get it at their houses as well - fine by me, I love it!. When they came here last I made double quantity, and there was not a scrap left (so much for 16 servings per recipe!) - AND that was just one of the buffet dishes

Could this be the reason for global warming

 

[Goofyluver]

I do. I think saying that something of mine is delicious is a huge compliment. I will always share.

 

[StregaNona]

I always figure it is a compliment when someone wants a recipe for something I have made. I don't mind sharing although I know some people who are really picky about it.

 

[Twigs]

I always share recipes too, and never understood the whole secret thing either. I had an Uncle who made a really good tomato salad, that everyone loved. He would never give out the recipe and when he died the recipe went with him. One of my Aunts was able to come close to replicating it, but there was something he put in it that made it special and we just don't know what it is. It's a shame we can't make it and say this is Uncle Laci's tomato salad.

 

[Dory's Twin]

I share all of my recipes EXCEPT my cookies...I "designed" (for lack of a better word) chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies and Oatmeal cookies....all my friends love them and ask for the recipes, but I always decline....the recipe is for my DD and Ds (or his wife).

Just a secret family recipe...I even have friends who ask me to make a batch so they can take it to things!

All my friends understand....nobody has ever complained....some have even joked that they are willing to marry off their kids to one of mine to get the recipes.....

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

Anything I make is fair game... I'd be thrilled to go to a potluck with all of "my" recipes, because then I could find plenty to eat that I liked!!

 

[lilangel]

I always share my recipes unless it was a recipe I was given and asked not to share it. I have 2 recipes like that. My mom gave me the recipe for Pralines--It's a store actually recipe and the lady asked us not to share it..The other one is my brother Chili recipe--I have been asked for both recipes My reply has always been I'm sorry but I have been asked not to give the recipe away but I'll be happy to make you some

 

[chamonix]

I had to beg and plead for a cake recipe once from one of my college professors and in the end, it turned out to be because of your issue: she didn't want me to then bring it to department functions! Once I promised I would never do that, she was fine with sharing the recipe.

So, since this bothers you, just make sure to extract the same promise from people who ask you for recipes. You'll share the recipe, but only if they promise never to bring it to potlucks that you both will be attending. I think that is a very reasonable request. In fact, I think it would be fine to mention this to the people who already have your recipes, "just so you won't show up with the same thing".

As an aside, my professor has since passed away, and I have been meaning to take "her" famous cake to a department potluck someday in her honor. (my dh is now a professor in the same dept) Her dh is still teaching there though, and I am afraid he might faint if he saw it on the table!

 

[OKWMom]

I know this is going to sound strange, but the only person I am hesitant to share a recipe with is my mother. Not because I don't want her to have it, but she is just not a good cook. Whatever recipe you give her, she modifies the heck out of it, usually leaving out the most important of the ingredients. After she has finished with it, it bears no resemblance to your recipe at all.

I have nightmares that she is going to take something to a covered dish and tell everyone that the terrible casserole/pie/side dish is my recipe. I know this makes me sound horrible, but my sister and I have discussed this and she feels the same way.

 

[chamonix]

OMG, that's hilarious!

 

[shirleyb]

I always share recipes because I know no-one can make it like me

A friend of my mother was very funny about sharing recipes -she'd give you the recipe, but the wrong oven temperature/time, or leave out an ingredient. Just plain weird!

I've got several friends hooked on Pampered Chef's hot broccoli dip, so much so that we get it at their houses as well - fine by me, I love it!. When they came here last I made double quantity, and there was not a scrap left (so much for 16 servings per recipe!) - AND that was just one of the buffet dishes

Could this be the reason for global warming

Could you share this recipe?