Have you ever cooked something new and a little complicated without following the recipe?
Let's say that with some luck, you come up with decent tasting fare even though you didn't spend a lot for the ingredients. Heck, it beats whatever else you had lying around, and it's something you might even be able to chow down seconds of.
But odds are someone else will show up in the kitchen and ask to try what you've whipped up. Or maybe you'll ask them to give it a taste.
"Not bad, but I think it needs something," they might say (they often do). "What, you say? Salt?"
"Yea, try adding a little more." So you do, and that doesn't quite satisfy either of you.
"Ah, maybe a little hot pepper seasoning or hot sauce?"
"Right! Throw some of that at it. Can't hurt."
So you do. And now it tastes completely different.
"Criminy," you utter. That's not what I had in mind. So you add something else to try to bring back something good and right again.
Now you realize that you've got a concoction that might not make ANYONE happy (and by the way, you missed the right spice to add to the thing. It was right in front of your nose).
Imagine that you have time contraints, or perhaps you bought the last available ingredients, and you can't just start over.
You have to live with the thing you've been messing with, and you have to hope SOMEONE likes it when the party starts!
I'm a San Francisco Giants fan win or lose, and I have been for a long time, and this is just an observation: Although amateur, one-off efforts can end up well, mostly they don't. You have to be really lucky.
And you know what they say about too many cooks...
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