Tuesday 20 September 2011

Cook From Cookbook Challenge

I have quite a few cookbooks. And a Good Food magazine subscription (thanks mum!). Yet boyfriend and I have a fairly limited repertoire of meals that we make each week. This is down to a few reasons:

  • The meals require very little thought because we know them so well
  • It makes popping to the supermarket much quicker and easier when we know what we're going to buy
  • After a long day of work we're not generally in the mood to cook anything particularly adventurous
  • Also... we have these meals on our rotation because we really enjoy them! Seems obvious, but I thought I'd mention that part *laughs*

So, after a few conversations with boyfriend recently, and a chat on twitter with a couple of other cookbook fiends (I'm looking at you guys Tink and Mooncalf), I decided it would be a good plan to try and start a weekly "Cook from Cookbook Challenge"

Some caveats of course - I'm not going to stress if it doesn't happen every week, life happens and sometimes things don't work out. This isn't a meme, it's just a plan I have for me and boyfriend. Having said that, if anyone else has a go, great! Let me know, help yourself to the image I made below, send pictures, share links and recipes (copyright permitting). It'll be fun *grins* Not that I need more recipes of course ;)

Part of this idea was inspired by a recipe that boyfriend made from a previous Good Food magazine, a chinese bbq pork chop with cucumber salad. It was absolutely delicious (although a bit time consuming) and reminded us to be a little more adventurous.

So, wish me luck in my trawl through my cookbook collection, I'll post any successes (and, if you're really lucky, any less successful attempts too)!

9 comments:

  1. Yay for enabling!

    I actually have just bought a single cookbook I do this with, and ignore all of the others! A different burger recipe for each week of the year...

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  2. It sounds like a good idea, and bbq pork chop sounds fantastic. The takeawwy secret is my favourite book at the minute, not healthy but tasty :)

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  3. I just started looking around the internet for new dinner ideas, so I look forward to seeing what you cook up on your blog!

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  4. This sounds like a great idea! I can't wait to hear about what you make.

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  5. This could be a fun thing to try. I haven't done any cookbook stuff in a while. Though I do tend to pull recipes from food.com.

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  6. I always forget to plan meals when I go shopping. I should start prowling cook book stuff.

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  7. Good luck! I love experimenting in the kitchen but I don't always have the time.

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  8. Its very easy to rotate the same well known meals each week, I do the same...Although Cook from a cookbook challenge sounds lovely!!

    Although does recipes that you have collected online count?

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  9. Oh, this is a brilliant idea! I'd've loved to join in but fear I'll fall off the wagon in no time :(

    I'll live vicariously through you three so keep it coming!

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