Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Why

I enjoy cooking. But perhaps even more, I enjoy buying cookbooks and subscribing to cooking magazines and pouring through the recipes and pictures and imagining what I will cook. But then I don't. The end result is that I've accumulated more than a shelf-full of magazines full of recipes that have never been tried, so I can't get rid of the magazines, but they just sit there and make me feel guilty. It's pretty rare for me to flip through one for what to cook that night, and even when I do the season's usually off or it's just full of Halloween cupcake decorating ideas or something.

Last weekend, I purged my room of other magazines, going through the dog-eared pages and jotting notes of books to check out or websites to visit. Energized, I wanted to do something about the cooking magazines too.

I laid them all out by month. For some reason, I don't have full sets of each, but there's about 3-5x coverage. That wouldn't be so great for a genome sequence, but for cooking magazines that is more than enough. I decided that for the next year, I will take the 4 or so issues that correspond to that month and attempt to cook all the best-looking recipes. Whatever recipes I didn't get to are --let's face it-- probably never going to happen and can be discarded sans guilt. Whatever gets cooked will be tasted, and those that pass muster will find a permanent home in the hall of fame AKA my recipe book.

That's the plan, anyway! So at the beginning of each month, I will decide on some recipes and put together weekly shopping lists/meal plans. And throughout the rest of the month, I'll be blazing (hopefully not literally) my way through.

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