A New Year
Jan. 1st, 2009 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladysprite2008 is over. It had good bits and bad bits, and even with the bad bits, I'm coming out of the year feeling like I've learned and grown from everything that has happened.
I'm starting the new year in a positive frame of mind - I want it to be better than last year, but I'm willing to take the initiative and do what I can to make it a better year, rather than just waiting for the world to be better.
On a separate note, while I'm not a fan of New Years' Resolutions, I do have one goal that I've set for myself in the next year.
I collect cookbooks. I buy pretty and interesting ones that catch my eye; I pick up strange and interesting ones at secondhand bookstores; I rescue them from family members who would otherwise throw them out; I buy them for myself as souvenirs when I travel to strange and interesting places. This means that I have an entire six-foot-tall set of bookshelves full of cookbooks, most of which have never been actually used. I read them, and look through them, but 98% of my cooking winds up either being improvisational or from one of a half-dozen favorite books.
So, over the course of 2009, I'm setting myself a goal of making at least one recipe from every cookbook I own. Every single one. From Fannie Farmer and Baking With Julia to Japanese Homestyle Cooking and the Little House On The Prairie Cookbook.
I have no idea how successful I will be, but it should be fun to try....
I'm starting the new year in a positive frame of mind - I want it to be better than last year, but I'm willing to take the initiative and do what I can to make it a better year, rather than just waiting for the world to be better.
On a separate note, while I'm not a fan of New Years' Resolutions, I do have one goal that I've set for myself in the next year.
I collect cookbooks. I buy pretty and interesting ones that catch my eye; I pick up strange and interesting ones at secondhand bookstores; I rescue them from family members who would otherwise throw them out; I buy them for myself as souvenirs when I travel to strange and interesting places. This means that I have an entire six-foot-tall set of bookshelves full of cookbooks, most of which have never been actually used. I read them, and look through them, but 98% of my cooking winds up either being improvisational or from one of a half-dozen favorite books.
So, over the course of 2009, I'm setting myself a goal of making at least one recipe from every cookbook I own. Every single one. From Fannie Farmer and Baking With Julia to Japanese Homestyle Cooking and the Little House On The Prairie Cookbook.
I have no idea how successful I will be, but it should be fun to try....
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Date: 2009-01-01 10:09 pm (UTC)One that I used (to raves) at an SCA Yule feast was the Grilled Maple-Glazed Salmon. People who normally didn't eat fish came back for seconds. And the recipes are adaptable to either a regular kitchen or to a campfire. (http://www.amazon.com/Lewis-Clark-Cookbook-Discoveryand-Jeffersons/dp/1587611473?tag=dogpile-20)
Putting those cookbooks to use...
Date: 2009-01-01 10:09 pm (UTC)Re: Putting those cookbooks to use...
Date: 2009-01-02 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 05:25 am (UTC)Otherwise, best of luck with the project!
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Date: 2009-01-02 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 04:02 pm (UTC)Very similar to what you are trying.
Please keep us posted on how it turns out, & I may have to poke at you some point to look at the little house cookbook.
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Date: 2009-01-02 04:54 pm (UTC)i will be interested to hear about the results!