To be totally honest w/ you, I cook by taste !! I start off w/ a basic recipe and go from there. My wife often asks me why I even bother looking at a recipe. My brother has been after me for my recipe for my homemade Jack Daniels BBQ sauce. It is thick and awesome w/ mollasses and brown suger. home grown garlic and onions. But I honestly could not write down the recipe. He's not much of an ice fisherman, but when I said I wanted to make BBQ chicken wings this year, he said he'd be on the ice w/ me.