recipes

today, i had a discussion with a friend of mine about family recipes.. to share, not to share, to share w/ ex's.. we decided sharing with a particular ex would be bad for family business.. the nerve of the man actually having the daughter spy on grandma in hopes of obtaining a secret family recipe for her tortillas..! sure, you can probably pick out a good tortilla recipe online or go to a relative/friend of relative who happens to know how to make them homemade, but will it yield the result you are desperately in search of..? how secret are family secret recipes..? sure, most are passed down from generation to generation, but where do you draw the line at recipe gathering involving surreptitious spying and covert espionage..? stealthy pictures of grandma's hands (knowing her hands are her 'measuring cups')..? the only hope is the attempted recruiting of an unknowing child at gathering is was thwarted.. the attempt by the ex was deemed low and in words that gained a hearty round of laughter: "he's lower than the dirt on the bottom of a pile of dog poo.."

in my family, we have recipes that have been passed down through the generations.. some, after following the recipe, are not as tasty as the recipe claims (to put it nicely).. and some are downright scrumptious..! i guess, after thinking about the topic of the day, my friend and i decided if her ex wanted a recipe from her family, he'd have to cough up one of his mom's prized recipes.. in light of the many years since it was first requested and has not yet been handed over, the likelihood of hell freezing over before the recipe swapping happens is the most likely scenario..