Do you follow recipes or make up your own?

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I always say I don't like cooking, but when I try making or baking something, it always happens that I don't have some ingredient, or I am allergic to something so I have to replace something. What ends up happening is I take a recipe and sort of throw a lot of alternatives in. Since I am the only one who has to eat it, I don't mind. My most recent thing was making some really delicious gluten-free crackers with only rice flour, almond flour and water (plus a bit of salt). The way I figured out this from another recipe was proportions. I take 2 rice flour to 1 almond flour to 3 water, pour it and spread it out on baking paper on a flat sheet pan, and bake for 15 minutes. I adapted it from a recipe that wasn't much like that but it really tastes good! Today I added fennel seeds and that was very tasty! So, do you cook by the book, or by your feelings?