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Recipe Produce Result.  Set Instructions Making Food Easiest

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A way of doing something that will produce a particular result.  A set of instructions for making food.
The easiest way to avoid pain, it seems, is to follow someone else’s instructions, but that is a recipe for failure. To succeed in your career, you have to break the rules.
“She's planning to do the plumbing herself.” “That's a recipe for disaster.” [=that will result in disaster].
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

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