The Challenge

I will be the first to admit that I am a little odd. If something comes easy then it really bores me. I love a challenge. I like to be pushed and I like to push myself to achieve my goals in life. And I do normally achieve these goals with out any problems.

I have always been this way. It is a way of reinventing myself. Often, I put myself in a situation where I am forced to learn new things and ideas. This blog is my new challenge.

Let me explain. I just recently watched the movie Julie & Julia. It was a very good movie. I really enjoyed it a lot. If you are not familiar with the movie then I will give you an idea of what it is all about. Julie Powell loves Julia Child, so much so that she decides to take her cook book and cook all 500 plus recipes in the book and blog about it. That is the movie in a nut shell, doesn't sound like it would be a good movie but trust me it was.

Here is where the challenges comes in. I have decided I want to learn to be a better cook. I can cook, but just not on any great level. So I decided to follow in the footsteps of Julie Powell and take a cook book and cook each recipe in the book. I have really lowered the bar and chosen a shorter and easier cook book than Julia Child's book. It would take me forever to make my way through 500 plus recipes, and there is no way I could do it in a year.

The book I have chosen to cook my way through is "Southern Farmers Market Cookbook" by Holly Herrick. The book was just given to me by my friend Janice. She knows I shop at farmers markets and have joined a farm share so she thought it would be a great gift. And it was.

As for the rules and details, well I am going to try to finish the book in a years time but the world will not come to an end if I extend it a little. At 160 pages, I really don't see why I can not finish this book before the year is out. The book is sectioned out by the seasons, so I am going to start with the Fall recipes and start cooking. I am also going to do most of my cooking on the weekends so I will have plenty of time to get it done and hopefully blog about it on the way.

So wish me luck. Hopefully there is plenty of good eating coming my way.

Keller
9/9/09