Summer Goal: Cooking

One of my goals this summer is to cook dinner twice a week. I don't want to take over the cooking completely because T loves to cook, and I am hoping that as soon as we get a BBQ he'll be wanting to do even more of it. However, he's working lots right now, and I am not, so it's a perfect opportunity to take some of the load off him while also brushing up on a few kitchen skills!

I enjoy cooking but I find that I don't do much of it. I am rather tired and/or impatient much of the time, and I don't have the intuition that some people do. T can watch the Food Network, and then come home with ingredients the next day for a culinary experiment... which is inevitably delicious. I, on the other hand, am pretty good with a recipe - but that's as far as it goes. My penchant for choosing insta-foods is part of the reason I gave myself this summer goal!

My most favourite cookbooks are the ones with pictures. Not only do they help me decide what I want to cook, they give me a reference point for what the food should look like! One of my most favourite cookbooks is Save-On-Foods Healthy Recipes. Photos of nearly every recipe, health and nutritional information throughout, and tons of awesome dishes to try! I also like to work out of Great Food Fast and T swears by any cookbook written by Jamie Oliver. There will be lots for me to choose from.

As I try out my recipes, I will try to take photos, rate them on tastiness and perhaps ease of preparation, and comment generally on the process. I don't know if anyone will read my cooking posts (which is fine since I am certainly NOT a cook), but they may be invaluable to myself if I am trying to remember something later on.

A shout-out to some inspirational culinary bloggers:
Brandon
Leela

Cheers - and Bon Appetit!
E!