You got it right in one. All of the celebrity chefs that I was
slave free labor to said the same thing. Taste as you go, or you are making crap.
I tasted a LOT during school.
/johnny
Damned straight, m'FRiend! Until one becomes very familiar with a recipe, preparing w/o tasting occasionally is the cooking equivalent of flying blind. Mountain ahead? What, me worry?
It's rather a shame that many (not all, of course) people haven't learnt this point from childhood, or at least an old-fashioned home ecs class. Sigh.