Cut your baby some slack!
If she gets a few ideas that can be incorporated, great.
I don’t present an entire FoodNetwork meal to my wife but, if I can add in some different flavor profiles such as capscasin peppers or “umahme” to pick up the flavor profile, I will.
I just don’t tell her that umahme = crushed anchovies.
Give her a chance to build your favorites into something “better”, piece-by-piece?
I don’t like better when we have already achieved perfection.
And the last thing I want her or myself to experiment with is my favorites.