I have this issue, see...
I love recipes. I'm kind of addicted to them.
I already have an impressive assortment of cookbooks and recipe binders, but for some reason I can't bear the thought of cancelling my Cooking Light subscription. I am a little disenchanted with the Rachael Ray mag, but until my last renewal runs out I will diligently flip through each issue and pull out new recipes. I pin a new recipe on Pinterest almost every day it seems.
I don't like missing new recipes and ideas! There are so many interesting concoctions out there! But I've got to stop, or at least slow down.
I've acquired a few bigger kitchen accessories lately like a blender, food processor and ice cream maker and I have no place to put them...except on the shelf where my recipe books have been stashed.
I pulled them all down this evening to a) clean that shelf and b) put the appliances up there. This is what our kitchen counter now looks like. Overwhelming, huh?
These are my two recipe binders that are literally busting at the seams. Mind the stack of recipes on top waiting to be put in their appropriate sleeves...
I have a handful of these homemade cookbooks like Coy and Angela's wedding favor; and a very nice subscription to Cook's magazine that was an engagement gift from a girlfriend...
I'm thinking this Best of Cooking Light book will have to go. After all, I've had a subscription to the magazine version for years and some of the recipes are already clipped and in the recipe binders! I haven't gone through the top book, a Farm Journal's Country Cookbook, very thoroughly, but I don't want to get rid of something so cool and old...
I'm also thinking this one to do with tofu is going to go. I love tofu, but let's be real. Our deep freeze in full of antelope, elk and the like. There aren't many tofu dishes going on our table...
More of the homemade cookbooks...
And more...
Seriously...
Oh man...
The new home for the appliances. Now where will all those books go...?
First, I'm envious of all of those recipes. I also love new recipes. I have a book shelf in my kitchen that houses both my big gadgets (mixer, blends etc...) and my cookbooks. Also, some things I actually just keep in their boxes. For instance, I just got this awesome glass, drink jar (the kind with the spout) that has two compartments and stacks one on top of the other and will BE GREAT for both white and red sangria at a party, but I don't need to keep it out all of the time. Until I need it I'll keep it in the box and will put it back in when I'm done using it.
ReplyDeleteMom and Dad have a ton of cookbooks too. I only have four: 3 vegetarian + the one from Stacey's church. I used to pick up Eating Well magazine every once in a blue moon, but when I bought a copy a few months ago, I didn't like the changed layout. I'd rather splurge on beads and make earrings. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, we have tons of cookbooks, so could probably donate some. I really like our Food Network mags that Aunt Sherry subscribed for us, but we haven't renewed, and we have a bunch of Cooking Light, too, but haven't renewed for a long time with that. We will never be able to cook all that, but like the way Food Network has the index with pictures in the front of all the recipes so you don't have to look at the whole thing to find one.
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