Sometimes you just get lucky.
The original recipes I post on Catfish's Dishes get here a variety of ways. Some are long held family recipes, the stuff I was making long before I ever felt like writing about it. Some were once other peoples' recipes, but have mutated so much under my watch that I feel fully justified in calling them my own. Some are even proper "blog" recipes--things I created entirely for the purpose of writing about them, the sort of dish that involves planning, research, and possibly even failed attempts.