do you have friends/family that keep recipes secret?

[vash]

my friend's mom has the BEST Korean Kalbi recipe. it is heads and shoulders above the rest. for decades we have been trying to get her recipe. nope. we get the standard, "i dont measure anything" or "its different all the time".

okay. i gave up and thanks to the internet and nice Korean lady at the K-town grocery store, i have cobbled together a damn good one. it is badass and i would love to let my friends mom try it. (one day)

anther lady refused to give me her chocolate cake recipe, but in her defense she was trying to get some huge company (starbucks?) to buy her cake..i get that. i have since lost track of her and her cake. damn. but i understood her hesitation.

[Norm K]

Not after I became skilled at waterboarding.

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[cabmandone]

For most of my life my aunt kept a rum cake recipe a secret. I finally talked her into sharing it with me because my son and I wanted to make it for a cub scout event. For years I wondered about this secret recipe handed down to my aunt by a chef... turns out it was online. Some secret!!

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by Norm K

Not after I became skilled at waterboarding.

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I tried that this year at the OBX.. Couldn't ride a wave to save my life!

[flatbutt]

My grandma took her recipe for Sicilian rice pie to her grave.

[Noah930]

Vash, will you share your kalbi recipe? I made one recently that I really liked, but it's always fun to try new (good) recipes.

I had a good friend's father pass away from COVID at the very beginning of the pandemic. Everyone at the zoom funeral mentioned his flank steak recipe. My friend shared it, and it's fantastic. I thought it would be nice to make a cookbook of deceased people's recipes. To remember them by the foods they made that friends and family universally loved.

[Tishabet]

Originally Posted by Noah930

Vash, will you share your kalbi recipe? I made one recently that I really liked, but it's always fun to try new (good) recipes.

I had a good friend's father pass away from COVID at the very beginning of the pandemic. Everyone at the zoom funeral mentioned his flank steak recipe. My friend shared it, and it's fantastic. I thought it would be nice to make a cookbook of deceased people's recipes. To remember them by the foods they made that friends and family universally loved.

I was going to ask the same thing, I love kalbi! I also love flank stank....

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

My grandma took her recipe for Sicilian rice pie to her grave.

My aunt did the same with her macadamia fruitcake.

[rsrguy]

I'm guilty of this, family and friends love my dishes but there seriously are no recipes, when anyone asks I always offer to teach them any time they want... So far, no takers.

What few understand is, it isn't just about the recipe, it's about techniques and food science.

And ya most times the recipe gets tweaked...

[gwmac]

My brother would share his recipes but we always accused him of leaving something out or changing it cause it never tasted like when he made it.
Maybe it is just what rsrguy was saying.

[Tobra]

Dad's sister Katie gave mom a recipe for lemon chiffon pie that she did not share with anyone else. Wanted the woman who married her youngest brother to have a secret weapon

[javadog]

My extended family published a cookbook. 95% of the recipes were so hideous, you could almost considered a parody of cookbooks. Absolute ****, one recipe after another.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by javadog

My extended family published a cookbook. 95% of the recipes were so hideous, you could almost considered a parody of cookbooks. Absolute ****, one recipe after another.

Wow. Someone must have thought they were good. I guess your extended family just has awful taste (or if everyone except you they were awesome...)

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Tishabet

I was going to ask the same thing, I love kalbi! I also love flank stank....

I'm out of town for the moment. When I get back home, I'll revisit this thread and post the recipes I have for those.

[javadog]

Let’s just say that I have some cousins that are pretty close to rednecks.

About half of the recipes were what you call “dump” recipes. The most common ingredient there was a can of mushroom soup. That went into absolutely ****ing everything.

And there were the moron recipes, like the one for Rotel dip. I **** you not, that one was in there.

My grandfather’s infamous chili recipe was in there, which basically was ground beef, beef suet and chili powder. I don’t recall the exact proportions but I think the recipe called for 12 pounds of the suet. I guess he liked leftovers.

The title of the stupid thing was “shoot me the beans.”

I didn’t contribute any recipes, my wife tossed in a few. I’m sure they were too complicated for any of my cousins to attempt.

[1990C4S]

My ex shared her recipes, but she would never share paint colors that we used in or on the house. She would always say "I will look for it and get back to you". But she knew the name of every color.

Plain old Benjamin Moore colors...

[craigster59]

[TimT]

Vash, will you share your kalbi recipe?

Lots of interest in Korean here.

This womans website and youtube channel are great for Korean..


Maangchi

Galbi

LA Galbi

[porsche4life]

My dad still hasn’t told me what’s in his BBQ spice mix. I always ask and he just makes another big batch and gives me several bottles. I keep telling him to measure it out and tell me, but he never does. 🤣

[GH85Carrera]

My great grandmother ran a boarding house and restaurant in downtown Oklahoma City around 1910. She cooked all day long. She was famous for her biscuits. She was way to busy to measure things, and just added a handful of this and a pinch of that.

My mother loved those biscuits and stood there in the kitchen and measured every ingredient and granny whipped up a batch of biscuits. The biggest problem was she made enough biscuits for a dozen hungry men that had been working hard all day, so it had to be scaled down.

Mom's biscuits from that recipe were great, but from what I hear great grandmas biscuits were the best.

My dad was an Air Force officer and on one of his many trips he ate at a base officers mess hall that was known for great apple pie. Dad loved it, and figured he would get the recipe. He said it started with 100 pounds of butter.............