I think I will never make a recipe again from the internet unless it has comments

[Siwsan]

1. Except for baked goods, I pretty much view recipes as a list of suggested ingredients

I've made things, before, that sounded like a good idea, but had I followed what was written, they would have not been to my taste. So I customize, adjust and tweak pretty much every recipe I encounter.

I don't generally mess, much, with recipes for most baked goods, like cakes and cookies, because many of the dry ingredients work more like chemistry. I'll customize by adding or deleting things like nuts and fruit, but the basic recipe is followed to a "T".

I had an uncle who just threw stuff together, when he made cookies. On occasion they were absolutely delightful but that wasn't the case, most of the time. They were too tough, too dry, too bland, too everything but tasty.