Luke over at cookography.com came up with a great idea of putting together a simple list of recipes, restaurants and food to try this coming year. I love lists and obviously, I love food so what’s better than an inspired list to aspire to completing in 20o9?
Here goes:
- bake more pastry – especially breakfast pastry
- learn to sous vide
- experiment with cooking whole fish
- dry all my own herbs from the garden
- improve my photography skills
- use all the random chutneys, jams, sauces and canned gourmet goodies in my cupboards
- cut down on the number of culinary magazines that arrive on my doorstop every month
- more posts on home keeping and domestic-ness!
What are some of your culinary resolutions for 2009?
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January 8, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I think my biggest culinary resolution for 2009 is to try making as many new things as possible, and continue making most of my food homemade.
January 8, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Fun!! Mine is to finally try making the Smith Island Cake (one that is notorious for taking a long time to make!).
January 8, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I want to make the Smith Island Cake, too! It looks so delicious. I may make it in February.
My real resolution is to try new international recipes, which is part of my bigger resolution to learn more about different countries as a whole. So, I started a new blog where I focus on the aspects of different destinations that interest me… and only post about one destination at a time. Over the course of two weeks. It’s all very methodical over here.
Of course, trying the new recipes is the most fun. So far, I’ve made Hungarian Goulash and though I only planned on making one dish per destination I blog about, I’ve already also made Paprika Chicken and will make Hungarian Butter Cookies tonight. I think I’m going to have a lot of fun with this.
Wow. Three new-to-me recipes and it’s only January 8… I’m doing pretty good!
January 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Yikes! Just realized how long my comment was and I didn’t even finish. I wanted to ask, which magazines do you want to keep subscriptions to?
January 9, 2009 at 12:33 am
#1 culinary resolution is to revisit the Sunday night dinner. Cooking something beautiful, fresh and new for friends at least 2 sundays a month. Ill practice on y’all soon – you can make the pastry desert! Happy new year, doll!
January 9, 2009 at 11:19 am
The magazine subscriptions I want to keep are:
Delicious (Australian and fabulous)
Donna Hay (also Australian)
Food & Wine
Saveur
Gourmet
Martha Stewart Living
Cooks Illustrated
(there are so many more, but I promised my husband I would cut back!)
January 9, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I need to try out Cooks Illustrated. I like the reader’s digest sized Martha Stewart magazine. But, I don’t buy it, as most of the recipes are on her website.
May also want to look at the Australian magazines, just to see some nice variety.