I doodle little smileys or frownies or A+s or C-s in my cookbooks, in the margins and by recipe titles. Sometimes I write notes of my substitutions and successes and failures. This blog is basically a public extension of that habit of rating and sorting the things I try. I'm afraid my criteria are a bit inconsistent. Sometimes I love a really complex and delicate recipe--as an artistic challenge and an intellectual accomplishment. Sometimes I just want it fast and delicious. So I can't claim any kind of internal logic to my grading system. If I come up with something solid, I'll let you know. But in the meantime, forgive my idiosyncratic ABCs, and I hope you enjoy the recipes!