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Our family sauce recipe is top secret.

So is our risotto.

Yes we have a roast pork secret recipe. It's more like the seasoning and technique of making it crispy and pretty without burning it. My aunt accidentally shared it with her friend. Her friend turns around and sells it on the weekends now within our Asian community as an extra income. She then threatens my aunt and tells her to not share the recipe with others. Crazy lady!!

We have a couple but for the most part, I share the love

I have a poppyseed cake that is fabulous but so easy, it hurts. A meatball recipe, and a jelly salad recipe. Oh and a pork tenderloin marinade I got from a friend in college that was definitely a family recipe! I've never seen it anywhere else.

(and, ironically, my mom calls them secret family recipes and tells me never to share, but uh, I've actually googled a few and they're just from VERY old cooking magazines, HAHA!)

@.twist.: red!

@Mrs. Jump Rope: You're such a tease!

We have a couple of dessert recipes that are a bit secret, but we've shared with others in the family/like family (bff for 20 years), or MIL.

My grandmother was a fabulous cook/baker but notorious for sharing base recipes but not the changes she makes herself, or instructions on the family recipes that are like "add some sugar. Knead till it feels right". She and my great grandmother used to make this maple fudge icing for cakes that was amazing and though we technically have the recipe but she definitely left something out because it's not even close to what she used to make. My aunts have been trying to replicate it and figure out the change for the last 20 years.

I would totally share with HB if I had any secret family recipes. But if we don't I don't have them, and would be horrible with them anyway because I can't stop myself from tinkering with them.

My Dad makes a salmon dip that will rock your world. He's been ask to make it commercially but won't give up the recipe!! A few people have it, but he's made them sign waivors!!

Company potatoes (from an old cookbook), pork tenderloin marinade (more technique than anything), baked chicken wings from a family friend actually.

Ugh don't mention secret recipes... my husbands family has recipe for a lentil loaf that he loves, and I asked MIL for it when we got married and she gave me this absurd totally different recipe that tastes nothing like hers.
DH was like "Wah, you can't cook like my mommy."

So then I invented my own and it's so much better than hers ever was, even DH agrees, so ha. I win.

Rant over.

@swedishfish: excuse my chicken scratch!

Idk if it's my oven or what, but baking for that long burns the bottom of my bread. Also be careful not to mix too much or the bread doesn't rise.

I also spray my pans with PAM.

@Arden: you WIN!!!

@.twist.: same about the msahed potatoes!

MIL has a sugar cookie recipe for the softest but firm delicious cookies that came down from DH's family-- will keep that in the family for years