About, oh, 2 years ago, I organized my old recipe clippings, went through my cookbooks, etc. and planned menus based on them. Some of the food was good, some not so much. I’ve been re-making the keeper recipes since. There are enough that the same food doesn’t come up all the time, but still—I feel ready for something new.
Again I’ve been clipping recipes that strike me as interesting for a while now and, as before, they have piled up. I have a few new cookbooks my husband bought me for Christmas (at my request) that I’ve yet to crack open.
Basically, I’m looking at doing the same thing I’ve done before: go through the recipes and decide what I want to actually cook, enter the keepers into my recipe database (I have my existing sorted recipes in a computer program—search for “chicken parmesan” . . . so easy to find whatever I’m looking for!), make up some menus, get the ingredients, cook it.
Making new food is fun, although a disastrous result when you’re hungry can be pretty frustrating :). It’s always a good time to set a plate of something in front of my husband, “Now, I think this food was supposed to be chunky like that . . . maybe . . . I don’t know . . .” The blue soup scene in Bridget Jones? I’ve never done anything like that! No, not me! No, I am NOT PROTESTING TOO MUCH, what are you implying?
