So let's say you've never cooked with a particular ingredient. (Rhubarb, say.) Now let's say you think, maybe, you have tasted rhubarb. (Once, say, in a pie.) Would your next step be to create your own entirely new recipe for Rhubarb Oatmeal Bread? So it goes at Coconut & Lime.

Contributing Editor Alanna Kellogg also blogs at A Veggie Venture and Kitchen Parade.