A great way that is currently inspiring me to cook creatively is to keep a cooking/recipe journal that I fill with pretty pics of soups, teas, entrees, sweet treats, and entertaining & place setting ideas. I just grabbed a 3 ring binder with the clear pocket on the front and back and then did a collage to go in them as well as on the sides. Then I just used dividers to separate my categories(beverages, entrees, desserts, products, etc.) This has really inspired me to get crafty in the kitchen. I use it the same way that I do with a regular sketch book. It's a great and unique way to keep your recipes and flip through them.
I am starting a recipe journal today!
Starting monday (have a b-day party for my niece tomorrow and I know she will want me to eat some of her cake ;-) ) I am elimanating fish and animal byproducts from my diet. This week I tried to eat fish and it made me queasy I think it's because of the cold but I am grateful for it because I was unable to kick the fish habit on my own.
All my cookbooks have recipes with animal byproducts or meat/poultry/fish so I am going to print some nice vegan recipes starting with the vegan cupcakes hmmmm As soon as my mind calms down a bit I will change the favorite familiy recipes and veganize them. I love sister Quejimenez her blog she makes such wonderful vegan food I thank her for giving me the insight that vegan food does not have to be salad and greens only. I am also slowly going to try and incorporate some soyproducts back in our diet. I got real sick by it last time because of an g6pd deficiency but before that time I never had any problems with it. So I probably overdid eating soyproducts I had soy for every meal! Breakfast coffee with soymilk, lunch soypate with toast, dinner soycheese pizza's a bit too much even for someone without the deficiency I think. I will now keep it to a minimum of 1 or 2 meals per week. Instead of soymilk I will drink almond or ricemilk.
Thanks for this post! Keep the delicious vegan meals coming I will post a few of mine as well.
Blessings,
Chayil
http://chayil-sacred-woman.blogspot.com/
great!
How novel!?, so 2007 was the year I got my cookbook collection started ( I have 10 now) so now I have got to jump on this recipe journal thing!!! ;)
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What a coincidence that I
What a coincidence that I came across this message today because I just thought about starting a recipe journal. I am so bored with the current meals that I've been preparing for the past 15+ years. So anymore that you will like to share, please do.
Thank you for your inspiration.
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such a great idea!!
i love this idea. i mean, i'm not much of a cook. like, not at all. but i love looking images of pretty food which explains why i have a kazillion cookbooks and can never think of anything to eat. ;) maybe this will inspire me to cook more than my kazillion cookbooks.
Sistren, you have wonderful
Sistren, you have wonderful ideas... I've thought about 'Recipe journaling' everyday since the day you posted this. I'm gonna start my own. I've already gathered 3 recipes! Give thanks for all the inspiration you bring to this circle. It is an itinual source of upliftment & positive vibrations.