Welcome to the Project Cook A Book blog! What is this you ask? It's simple: just a group of ladies in need of a little excitement and inspiration in tackling the awesome (and sometimes overwhelming) job of cooking for our families. We all vary in experience and expertise, so don't think you have to be a great chef to join in on the fun.
The cookbook that we are cooking through is "The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook" by Ina Garten.
The plan is to cook through this book (in no particular order) from cover to cover. I know that sounds like quite a challenge, but it will be a journey that we will do together. If we each make two recipes a week it will take about 10 months to cook through the 86 recipes. After you make a recipe, come blog about your experience....did your husband like it or spit it out? What changes would you recommend to make this recipe better? In what creative ways did you use your leftovers? How did you make the recipe more figure friendly or healthy? You get the idea, right? You can even ask questions to the group if you need substitution suggestions, or don't understand a recipe. Have fun and take a picture of your food (success or disaster, either one!) and upload it to show off to us!
When you blog about a recipe, please put the name of the recipe in the "title" box so that others can easily search for an entry about a particular recipe. Also, there is a box named "label", (in the bottom right hand corner of each post) for you to fill in the chapter title of the recipe...example: Appetizers, Desserts, etc...
I know some of you are planning on being a part-time chef and blogger with this project and that is totally fine. No one is keeping score--we won't send out the cooking police if you don't get your two recipes a week cooked and served and blogged about! Do your best with the challenge--but most of all, enjoy yourself and have fun with this.
Every 6 weeks or so we will have a Potluck dinner and have everyone bring a dish made from the cookbook. This way we can meet some new faces, and catch up with some familiar ones. The first Potluck will be October 10th...more details to come at a later date, so be looking for an Evite at the end of the month.
It will be interesting to get a glimpse into each of your personalities and families on the subject we all have in common--FOOD.
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Disclaimer on this post...Carissa wrote this; I just posted it. My blogging skills are not yet such that I could figure out how to post this entry under Carissa's name. :)
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