I love to cook at home but don’t do it nearly as much as I’d like to. I’m definitely one of those people that needs a recipe and am terrible at planning menus ahead of time. This tends to result in last minute trips to the grocery store for obscure exotic spices that I’m pretty sure most people don’t keep in their pantries regularly.
I have noticed that I’m happier and feel healthier when I cook meals at home rather than ordering We The Pizza (whoops did that last night) or picking up noodles from Toki Underground. In an effort to get back to the kitchen I’ve been visiting my local farmers market (H Street FreshFarm Market ) on the weekends and adding more and more food blogs to my google reader.
Smitten Kitchen has quickly become one of my favorites and I was thrilled to learn its author, Deb Perelman, has come out with a cookbook, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. I’m planning to order a copy ASAP–which I’m sure will quickly end up dogeared and splattered with various ingredients–but isn’t that how cookbooks should be?
P.S I really loved reading all of the recipes you’ve tried and loved in yesterday’s Let’s Chat! Do you have any food blog suggestions that I should be adding to my reader? I’m sure my boyfriend would be forever grateful. He’s pretty excited about the promise of more homemade meals!
I’m the exact same way. I love to cook, but I’m terrible at planning ahead, and hate pushing back dinner time to make last minute trips to the grocery store. I’m trying to get better about making meal plans.
One of my favorite new-to-me food blogs is Scarborough Food Fair. She makes a lot of vegetarian recipes, which is a category I’d like to try more of. Her stuffed butternut squash recipe is one of my favorite things I’ve made this fall. SO GOOD. (http://scarboroughfoodfair.blogspot.com/)
I also really like Plums in the Icebox, which I linked to yesterday. Like SFF, she also posts a lot of vegetarian recipes and sticks to in-season ingredients.
I hope you’ll share some of your favorite finds!
Thanks so much for the recs! Just got lost in SFF’s posts for about an hour. YUM!
I love Annies Eats blog. Definitely my favorite of all the food blogs I read. Elly says Opa is great too.
I did this post a while back on recipes that I loved from Pinterest. I try a lot of recipes and don’t like them or don’t think they’re worth the work, so I wanted my readers to know what I had thought about those that I did love. Check it out as some of them are really easy. http://upnorthpreppy.blogspot.com/2012/08/pinterest-recipes.html
Thanks for the rec and for doing the vetting with your pinterest recipes. I’m dying to try Carmelitas now! xx
Good to know about the book! I’m always in the lookout for a good cook book. I love this blog for recipes….I have tried a couple and they are sooo good…. http://theyearinfood.com/
There is a butternut squash one with gruyere that she posted through etsy that is to die for.
Lindsay, I really love this cook book!! thank for sharing!
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