My newest obsession is cooking blogs. I can't get enough of 'em. I keep finding new ones, reading through them, falling in love and getting really hungry. I've taken to copying all the tasty (easier) recipes onto blank Word documents with the intent of printing them when I get to Norman.
It started out innocently enough. My first love was Pioneer Woman, though I loved her more for her wit and entertaining stories than for her cooking. But I did try a few of her recipes (one of which I have now cooked three times over the break for different people) and I love them.
After Pioneer Woman came The Menu Mama, who is actually an old friend of the family's. Heather has two little kids and focuses her blog on helping people plan for the week ahead, including a grocery list for the beginning of every week (which I think is brilliant). She's also great because her meals rely on ingredients that I could easily find in my own pantry -- no fancy-schmancy spices and impossible-to-pronounce cheeses.
These blogs I admired passively, browsing through and appreciating but not needing.
Then I went to Montana for part of Christmas break and took it upon myself to help my dad find some easy new recipes that he can make on Sundays (and in turn, find some good recipes for myself). And of course, where would you go for recipes except online?
So with that challenge in mind, I went through the links on Ree and Heather's blogs and found Bakerella, Smitten Kitchen, and a plethera of other awesome, delicious, super cool cooking (and baking) blogs.
With all these blogs to browse through, I don't think I'll ever purchase an actual cookbook now. What's the point? It's all online.
Kinda makes me feel bad for the poor publishing industry.
Until I google how to make the perfect brown rice and I immediately get a good fifty or sixty recipes.
From now on, I think I'll just grab my favorite recipes from all these great blogs and combine them in a binder or something. It's better that way anyway, because then it's personalized.
Thanks for mentioning me in your blog, Virginia! :-) I have a couple of cookbooks, but like you lately all the recipes I've been making are from the Internet so I print them out and put them in a (now exploding) white binder. However, did you know they make pretty binders just for this purpose? The binders come with section dividers and pretty paper to print the recipes on! And.... sheet protectors! A must if you are a messy cook like me. :-)
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