What if You Have No Recipe

Have you ever tried to make something without a recipe? Sometimes you make something wonderful and you wish you had written it down, you try to recreate it, but you can't always do it. Other times it is a disaster...whatever it was that you were trying to make failed miserably. We can only make a recipe with the ingredients we have, we can always go to the store and buy more and different ones, but sometimes that isn't possible and we have to make due with what we already have. Sometimes we can stare at the pantry shelf or the open refrigerator and nothing comes to mind, we can't figure out exactly what we should make. We don't know what ingredients are going to taste good together and what things clash horribly. There is no forcing things together in hopes of a good outcome, they either go together or they don't. We can't change the taste or the texture, we cannot MAKE things blend. Sometimes it is best to keep it simple, open one can of soup add water and voila' you have lunch. Other times simple just doesn't satisfy. We want more than soup, we want gourmet, we want a three course meal, we want steak, lobster, fondue and flambe', doesn't happen too often, but we can still want it, may not get it, but we can still hope and dream of it. Sometimes we don't have a recipe, sometimes we have to go it alone and figure out moment by moment exactly what we are going to add, may work, may taste awful, may just be bland...but in the end we don't always need a recipe because what we create turns out just fine....sometimes though....it fails...and that is okay, because there is always another day, another try, another recipe.