Summer Cooking

It seems that all great ideas I've come across have refused to come to fruition including my big plan to make use of my plethora of cookbooks this summer. I had this plan to use one cookbook a day and make something from it. After all, I did have the entire summer off! However, now that I am looking at the front end of my final week of summer break, I was attempting to modify this claim without giving up it's purpose. (Purpose: My husband does not understand my need to purchase a cookbook when anything you could ever want is on the Internet. Hence, my need to demonstrate through superior cooking - my need for my current cookbooks and a deliberate attempt to tempt him into insisting I buy even more!)

So I will claim that I did make use of my Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays cookbook to make three delicious recipes; Dulce de Leche Brownies, Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream and Three-Meat Lasagne. We had houseguests coming and these seemed like excellent, convenient items to have on hand.  All three were huge hits and so I'm inspired to continue.

So, in addition to starting a brand new position on August 3rd (more about that later), my new plan is to try one new recipe a week. That's reasonable, right?

Look for my cookbook list coming soon.

Dulce de Leche Brownies - my 2nd batch was much prettier, but I didn't take a picture of it. That will also be part of my goal - better photography!