Since we’re buying no new cookbooks as of 1 June 2010, there have to be some ground rules on how this is going to work. Most rules are up for discussion, because they’re all sub-points of the one major rule: No new cookbooks until we’ve cooked at least 25% of the recipes from the cookbooks we already own (exception: certain huge books we’re aiming for 10%. I’m looking at you, Bittman). With that in mind, here’s what we’ve got at the start of the blog.

# Online recipes are welcome to be posted but do not count as cookbooks. If we attempted to cook half the recipes on the internet, we’d be in for several worlds of hurt.
# We are not canceling subscriptions to cooking magazines we already have, but we will not subscribe to something new.… Continue reading →

Bill and I started this blog because we noticed that we own a lot of cookbooks. We’re not that couple who owns 800+ cookbooks, but we are that couple who would like to someday. And that was the problem.

We already owned several cookbooks, but we had a tendency to buy more and more. We enjoy cookbooks, reading them, cooking from them and even just getting ideas from them. However, at some point we realized two things. First, we kept buying NEW cookbooks, but we haven’t made a dent in using our old cookbooks. Second, we tend to cook a lot of the same things over and over. We both enjoy cooking, and Bill’s pretty good at it, but we both have our fallback meals (just ask Bill if he’s tired of hearing the word “frittata”).… Continue reading →