Special Feature: The Cookbook Challenge
A fact has occurred to Rilsta that she has way too many cookbooks that she rarely cooks from. Frankly, this face has never occurred to me. Not until I realised that I have bought over 8 cook books over the past two weeks. But let’s face it, the more the merrier, right? RIGHT!??!
The idea of this challenge is very Julie/Julia-esque. We cook at least one recipe from any one of our cookbooks a week over 52 weeks and we blog about these dishes. Each week, we carry a theme. A theme could be a cuisine (‘Japanese’), an ingredient (‘Eggs’), or something totally abstract (‘fire’) – the theme is designed to be as nonrestrictive as possible so we can use our creativity to marry with our inventory of respected author’s work (also, I just don’t want to be roped into doing desserts because I suck at them)
We came up with some fifty-something ideas and pull them out of a hat (or rather an envelope) to assign these themes to each week. Personally, I would have just written a macro that randomly assigns them but Rilsta thought an old fashion way is more fun. Well, she is boss! So Rilsta, Shellie, Agnes and I came up with themes and Shellie made us a funky logo and we’re away.
First week’s theme (starts next Monday) is citrus. I swear I dreamt about it last night. Sad huh?
More information, head over to Rilsta’s blog: My Food Trail.
Never thought abt the idea of this challenge being like Julie Powell… and I’m not sure I would be crazy enough to cook 524 recipes in a year like she did! We will only be doing 10% of that!
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Rilsta @ My Food Trail
13 Nov 09 at 9:45 am
well shes a tormented writer… we are just cooks!
Kat @ Spatula, Spoon and Saturday
13 Nov 09 at 10:37 am
Hi Kat,
It was great meeting you tonite
what did you think of the cocktail evening? I will be posting my first proper post tomorrow. I was talking to the staff about it and I think it’s gotten me moving more bec I started my blog but haven’t posted about anything other than a welcome message.
My blog is really supposed to be talking about everything (most things) I eat so i really am supposed to be posting everyday I have been meaning to do a blog for a while but haven’t gotten round to it yet So yeah that about explains it.
I’m intereted in the cookbook challenge so I’ll give it a go I let rilsta know.
I really enjoy reading yours and many other food blogs so thankyou for inspiring me to create my own
hope to hear more about your food adventures and also share mine with you
Feigy
feigy
13 Nov 09 at 11:40 pm
hey feigy, lovely to meet you. i hope i didn’t say anything too embarassing! i was too drunk.
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