On the Cooking Front

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

-Robert Morley

Apparently I'm on a once-a-week blogging schedule. Well, it is summer after all. I did take some photos for all of you this weekend, but uploading them to the computer was the rate-limiting step. At any rate, I have lofty goals for blogging at least twice this week.

I mentioned a few posts ago that I've been doing a bit of cooking recently, taking advantage of the fact that my husband will eat almost anything. And he does dishes. And we bought a grill.

Revisiting cooking meant revisiting my cookbook collection and recipes. I've been carrying around a 3-ring binder of various recipes since my college days, but found it too unwieldy. My everyday favorites were right next to recipes that I was clearly never going to make. So I regrouped, googled a bit, and found Tastebook.

Check it out:

A cookbook of my favorite tried-and-true recipes, only the good ones, professionally printed. With photos. And, since most of my recipes are from magazines or cookbooks, a little googling usually pulled up all the text, ready to copy and paste. And, you can add to it later.

I'm in love.

So, in the interest of spreading the joy, here are a few of my new favorite recipes:

• Sausage and Pepper Calzones from Cooking Light
• Honey Cake with Carmelized Pears from Martha Stewart
• Chipotle Pork Tacos with Pineapple Salsa from Cooking Light

and here are a few of my new favorite cooking blogs, for more inspiration:

• Dine and Dish
• Taste and Tell
• Picky Palate
• My Kitchen Cafe
• Baker's Banter

Enjoy! Be warned, but I get my act together, the FO parade will be miles long.