But if I myself “create” (for want of a better word) a recipe myself without looking at anothers recipe I won’t be googling to see who else has the same or similar recipes just for the sake of crediting because, lets face it, chances are someone has but I have not used their recipe in any influence of my own.

I know my recipes in no way belong to me and I’m not going to get pissy if I see someone else’s post which appears to gram for gram be the same as mine because there’s every single chance in this big wide world that someone has had the same thought as me. I’m so egotistical as to believe my thoughts are that unique. However if they have used photographs or quoted word for word my entire or large parts of my own post, clearly indicating that they used my blog, without credit then that’s crossing a line. Thankfully, its only happened twice for me and both were resolved quickly by a polite but firm private message. I know I felt really horrible before it was resolved though, I felt really sick and taken the piss out of. It wasn’t nice and I would never intentionally make anyone else feel a mockery for the sake of the recipe.

At the end of the day I have never looked down at anyone else for using someone else’s recipe. I will look down on them for plain out scabbing the entirety of someone else’s work and passing it off as their own.