Good morning, fare companions. The rest of us are grateful that some of you send recipes Just Because. No request needed; you are simply satisfied with something you cooked or ate and want to pass around the magic.
Some love the thrill of the hunt: The more obscure the request, the better. Once a reader requested a Lane Cake from a certain magazine many years in the past. Unlikely, I said to myself, but a reader found it right away.
Requests are necessary to keep the ball rolling, and when they in short supply I look at past Exchanges and consult my friend T. Square. This week, the former yielded a query about smoked salmon on a Big Green Egg. That one is still missing. The latter asked, “What about a recipe for whipped feta with crackers and raw vegetables?”
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So there. Can you find either, or send another recipe Just Because?