Interesting question!, found it to be a matter of where your personal and professional time-line is. They're just being polite by showing interest, nothing more. Sharing recipes can be totally redundant too, a waste of time and energy! Many people will ask for recipes, even though they will never ever make it. Many times I composed food experiments and discovered later on that they already existed in slightly other variations. It's almost impossible to create a totally new dish that hasn't been "invented" yet. This is the least you can do to pay respect to people who created it. I have no problem at all in sharing my interpretations, and when appropriate, I will give credit to the original recipe and the chef who made it or the book or magazine it came from. Maybe chef Miguel Maestre would have approved. Perfect addition for lifting the taste of the used meat in that pealla to a much higher level. And I added a good squeeze of lemon juice at the very end. I think it's almost a must in this rural paella. I added black olives while the original doesn't. It's made with lamb meat, certainly a "mountain" element. Although North-African from origin, merguez is appreciated in Spain too. I used rabbit, quail, chorizo and merguez. He uses rabbit, quail, chorizo and morcilla (blood sausage). That name he uses is most likey based upon the "mar y montanã" recipe concepts, which is spanish for "surf and turf" or, sea and mountain in spanish. Last week I made a "rural" pealla as I called it, based on a recipe by Miguel Maestre, a spanish chef living in Australia. Many times I will do my own interpretations. I can just give instructions on how I made certain dishes, but not exact measurements. Regular cooking (non-baking) recipes are difficult for me to share because I don't ever actually follow any recipe.
I believe I also have a pound cake recipe I created almost 10 years ago that is so deliciously moist that I would think twice before sharing as well. God that effin annoys me.īut the two I don't like sharing are my buttermilk pancake recipe, and my chocolate chip cookie recipe (it has a lot of other goodies other than choco chips). My only issue with sharing is when someone asks you for a recipe, and then they put their "twist" on it. I can certainly relate to that part of it, but if someone asks me how I made a particular dish I generally don't mind sharing, and have known to even get a little pedantic about it. perhaps they want to be the friend or family member who makes "THE best" lasagna, or "THE best" chicken soup, etc. I'm still not sure how I feel about people who won't share any of their recipes, I believe I get why they don't.