What Good Are Recipes?

I love sharing recipes for whatever dishes I happen to be making at a particular time. But do I think you’re making them all? Not at all!

So what good are recipes and why do I keep sharing them? In a word: Inspiration!

If you should make one of my recipes, that’s great–and please let me know! But if you don’t, it doesn’t hurt my feelings. Because I only hope to provide you with inspiration to make something–anything–healthy.

The fact is, I rarely make the recipes that come my way. For example, the last post’s Cucumber Dill Soup was inspired by a recipe in our local paper. Because it was far too complicated for everyday meal making, I used it merely as inspiration, streamlining and adapting it for my tastes.

I shared my version of the soup recipe with the hope that it will spark an urge to do something with this season’s cucumbers–or even just make any other kind of soup. For instance, you might:

  • Make a salad with cucumbers
  • Drag out and make your time-tested refrigerator pickles recipe
  • See the dill in the title and remember the earlier ideas for Dill Pistou , Dilled Carrots and Dilled White Fish
  • Slice a cucumber and eat with a little salt and/or lemon
  • Do an internet search on cucumber soup and find another version that better appeals to your taste buds
  • Make some other kind of soup because you haven’t had soup in a while

Maybe you’ll even just get inspired to make some other recipe you clipped, copied or downloaded.

Let yourself be open to an inspirational spark–and then follow it to a lovely, tasty and healthy meal!

Need more inspiration? There are at least a billion recipes on the Internet, but in case you’d like a more curated collection, search this blog. Scroll down the category listing on the left and click on “Category 7 Recipes–Healthy and Tasty.”

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