Cookbook Challenge

I have a thing for cookbooks- I love them! Probably once every 3 or 4 months, because that's all we can afford, I will find a cookbook 'I've just got to have'. I've got anything from cupcake cookbooks to breakfast cookbooks, to pregnancy cookbooks, to Middle Eastern cooking cookbooks, to French cuisine (yes any of my HS friends who read this, I still treasure my first French cookbook that I got on that wonderful surprise 18th Bday party!) not to mention the thousands of recipes I've downloaded off the internet. I love recipes and everything sounds so good that I want to make it all! I used to be a super planner for meals: plan carefully each evening meal for a week (lunch has always been less formal and we just grab whatever) and what ingredients I needed and headed to the store once a week. But, since I got better at cooking, my instinct took over and I used fewer recipes and more just putting things together and then we always come back to a few recipes that I know the whole fam likes. Tonight, as I was looking through my newest cookbook The Desperate Housewives cookbook, I, again, wanted to make it all just like last week I wanted to make all of the cupcakes from my cupcake book! So, I've come up with sort of a challenge for myself this year.

Each week I choose one cookbook for my cooking and commit to making at least 3 things from that cookbook (at least because we can always make more but sometimes we don't have time to cook or we eat at our friends' or the MIL's etc or we just want to cook something less elaborate for dinner- 3 seems a reasonable number). It can be a dessert, a maindish, and a sidedish or 3 maindishes for 3 different meals. Or, for the cupcake book, it can be cupcakes 3 times in a week!!!! Anyway, I don't have 56 cookbooks and the year has already started so I will come back to cookbooks and use recipes I haven't already tried so that this will give me a way to test out everything and hopefully better my cooking. Oh, and I'm not allowed to used recipes I've already used from those cookbooks, they have to be all new (at least for the 3 new things I commit to cooking during the week). Anybody up for the challenge?

I am going to start a week from tomorrow because the groceries have already been bought for next week. Will try and blog about my new food adventures each Friday. If you are up for the challenge, please leave a comment!

Comments

[Tara]

Cookbook recommendation (when you have the funds). If you like weird humor... "I like you, hospitality under the influence" by Amy Sedairs.