I have an obsession. I love buying cookbooks. And not just the easy-to-make weeknight recipe books but super hard and complicated cookbooks produced by amazing chefs that have some of the best restaurants in the nation (some of them ~ the world). When I buy these cookbooks I read through them with post-it notes flagging countless recipes I want to cook. But I rarely cook them. I’m not even a very good cook. I also have run out of space for them on my bookshelf. So before the cookbooks take over my house I think I should use them… cook with them.
So here’s my project: to cook every recipe in my fancy-smancy cookbooks. And to document them here, as I hope my blog obsession will force me to actually cook these recipes so that I can blog about them.
December 7, 2010
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I also made The Pioneer Woman’s Macaroni and Cheese, which she explains so much better in words and pictures than I ever could. In fact, PW even taught me 1) what tempering was and 2) how to temper and egg. When I read the instructions my initial thoughts were, “this has disaster written all over it!” But it actually worked. Will wonders never cease. So, in case you couldn’t tell, I have a huge crush on the Pioneer Woman!
