Some of my favorite recipes to write (and cook from) are barely recipes at all. Instead of full lists of ingredients and quantities, and long directions for exactly what to do with them, they’re casual paragraphs (sometimes just a few sentences) that walk you through the cooking process or the basic idea of a dish. When necessary, they include amounts, to get you in the right ballpark, but they're meant to be fairly loose and adaptable, which is how I (and lots of us) like to cook. I call them prose-ipes (aka prose recipes).