Cook Something Different Challenge

the_cat

Yes me!
I have loads of cook books and am always meaning to try some recipes from both this site and the BBC Good Food one. Yet I cook the same old stuff all the time.
What's the drill? One new recipe a week sounds do-able so I will start compiling a list to try. Like you, after Christmas for actually starting!

Nelski

the_cat wrote: »

Yes me!
I have loads of cook books and am always meaning to try some recipes from both this site and the BBC Good Food one. Yet I cook the same old stuff all the time.
What's the drill? One new recipe a week sounds do-able so I will start compiling a list to try. Like you, after Christmas for actually starting!

Oh no drill don't worry - no big lists of challengers or targets to fail at lol:D
For me I just went for once a week and that seemed to work and sometimes a bit more if I have time/am eating at home rather than the hotels I often have to stay in/in the mood for a cookathon

The way I started which Ill try again I think is to pick one cook book I haven't really used and choose 3/4 things to try for the month - no cheating though nothing that you have had before/cooked before or is a version of something you do all the time :rotfl:
Ill do my list over the next few days and off we go again

Soworried

I'd like to join in this please?

I treat myself to cook books from car boot sales and charity shops yet I rarely cook anything from them.
I'll start next week when I get paid

shandyclover

Something different, cheap, nutritious, and everyone seemed to enjoy it with brown rice.

I doubled the recipe and made it in the SC, the day before I went into hospital for day surgery.

http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-recipes/jamaican-red-bean-stew.php

Gigervamp

That recipe looks great. Thanks for the link.

Clutterfree

After reading jap200's wonderful "Cook through a whole cookbook challenge" I thought it was a great idea BUT because I have so many cookbooks I just can't stick with just one.
I put out a few feelers on her thread and there seemed to be a few people who were up for a slightly different challenge.

I'm stuck in a rut of cooking the same things week in, week out.
The usual cottage pie, toad in the hole, Spag Bol, chilli, etc.
I also want to try new baking recipes to make a change from Victoria Sandwich, brownies, cookies, etc

My aim is to try one new recipe each week, post a pic, state which recipe book it's from and give feedback. I want to add lots of new things to my family's menu.

You don't have to have the same aim as me, just try something new.
It can be one new recipe a week or more, or just one a month, it's up to you!

I hope I won't be alone in this challenge and we can encourage each other.

So get out of that rut, and happy cooking and baking!

(Thanks to jap200 for her original thread which helped give me this idea)

Nelski

There was a long thread about this so lots of reading for you there! it really worked to kick me out of chilli boredom

Heres the original thread and I will ask the BGs to merge

Cook Something Different Challenge

Good luck its lots of fun!!

honey

Sounds like a great idea Clutterfree.

I'm up for trying the same as you, one new recipe a week to try and expand our meal plan!

edinburghlad

I really like this idea, if only I had some cook books. Maybe time to invest in a couple.

Lizling

Yesterday I made mung bean and green bean salad. I'd never eaten a mung bean before because they sounded quite bland and 'too healthy.'

It was actually really good though, as well as cheap, so I'm glad I made enough for several lunches. I will make it again, but it did take a lot of time and was surprisingly complicated.