I have a confession. I am addicted to cookbooks. I don't know how it happened or why. Yes, I love cookbooks but it seemed so innocent. I would look at one in a bookstore and the next thing I knew I was buying it plus another. I couldn't walk out without at least two books sometimes three. And then they started multiplying in my house like rabbits. I would have two cookbooks by Nigella Lawson next to each other and before I knew it, they had produced a third. The same thing happened with Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, Ina Garten and more. Amazon just feeds my addiction. It is so easy to look at a book and before I know it, it is in my shopping cart and on its way to my house.
Today has been a bad day. It started out innocently enough at Costco. As I was finishing up, I told my kids to hang on for a second while I glanced at the book section. Before I knew it, I was taking home Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast. Then my daughter wanted to go to the mall. A quick stop at Williams-Sonoma and I bought a new cookbook, Cooking For Friends by Alison Attenborough and Jamie Kimm. It looked so pretty and delicious! Then I came home and started surfing around the internet checking out some of my favorite sites and blogs. I stopped in at Orangette and read her delicious description of a roasted asparagus recipe from A16: Food + Wine. I had resisted numerous attempts by that cookbook to get into my house but I just caved. It should be here tomorrow thanks to Amazon and one-day shipping.
I'm glad that one of my New Years resolutions was to cut back on my cookbook purchases; who knows how many I would have purchased!
