I have discovered that I absolutely love the movie "Julie and Julia." I am watching it right now for about the third time this week. I am completely inspired to cook my way through my cookbooks and blog about it, which I probably will start doing very soon. I've always been interested in cooking, as I remember my middle school life plan was to go to culinary school and become a chef. Also, more recently, I have erred on the side of pastry, and as I mentioned in previous posts, I've looked into pastry schools. Until I pursue that again, this'll be a fun, close-enough adventure.
In the spirit of not being completely unoriginal, I've come up with a way to bring at least a little something different to the table, pun intended...
Eric and I are about to make a major move - literally. We're about to relocate five states away! As everyone who has ever moved in their life knows, it is expensive! We're going to rent out our house here and then we'll rent in the new city. So, with getting back into a rental, you have the security deposit, the first month's rent, the pet fee, the parking fee, the "move-in" fee (whatever that means), the utilities fees, an arm, a leg, and your firstborn child. Also, though these are all one-time fees at the time of moving in, where we're going has a much higher cost of living and we'll have MANY expenses that we do not currently have. I would like to start this new fun adventure of cooking through my cookbooks very soon, but I cannot, however, spend a billion dollars every week on groceries. (Not to mention, I'm also quite a bit out of practice.) To help with both of these concerns, I'll be starting with a cookbook that my mom gave me this past Christmas - a 5-ingredient-recipes cookbook.
Over the last few days, I completed a long and tedious task that I'm surprised I actually did. (To be completely honest, i actually enjoyed it!) I went through the cookbook, recipe by recipe, to find out which ones had ingredients in common with others, in order to cut down on the number of ingredients I buy weekly and to avoid having ingredients going bad and then having to re-buy them later for another recipe. While I think it'll help enormously, I'm honestly not sure I'll be able to do that on a book that's any longer or that has recipes with endless ingredient lists. Those are probably the ones I really need to do that for though in order to save money! I guess we'll see how it all goes.
Starting out with this particular cookbook I think is a great way to jump into this endeavor. Since I haven't put much effort into cooking lately, 5 ingredient recipes will allow me to get my feet wet again, hopefully without being overwhelming.
Well, I'll get started after we move, because we can't buy gaggles of perishable groceries between now and then since we can't take them with us. The latest we should be there is September 30th, Lord willing. I suppose in the mean time I could try to work on coordinating the recipes of the other cookbooks. We shall see! Until next time, "Bon Appetit!"
Summertime Sweets
6 months ago
