Mortal sin!!! go to hell - just kiddin

This actually made me laugh. Is he 14?

For me, some of the fun in cooking is taking the recipes of others and tweaking and changing them up to suit my own ideas and tastes. I wouldn't expect my friends to have my same palate and I would certainly welcome experimentation with any recipes I provide. Heck, I might even like their take on the cuisine better than what I was doing with it. No way to know if you refuse appreciate creative differences. Anyway, you are friends, I hope you can work it out.

Recipes are just a guide and should never be followed exactly. I'm an excellent cook and baker who couldn't pass a cooking course to save my life because I'm incapable of following a recipe. I always have to look for ways to improve.

There are very few recipes that ever make it out of my kitchen without mods. Even my own recipes get additions and substitutions when the mood strikes.

You can cook your food anyway you want , just don't publish it.

Remorse? What! It's a recipe.