A New Year

[ladysprite]

2008 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....

Comments

[signy1.livejournal.com]

As a fellow owner of the Little House cookbook-- don't bother with the doughnuts recipe. The dough was a sticky abomination, and they soaked up oil like a sponge... which is also what they tasted like, more or less. :)

Otherwise, best of luck with the project!