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I'm not one for resolutions.
Especially those that pertain to food. I have found that outlawing anything gives me a sudden severe craving for the very food I intended to avoid. And that saying I'd like to drop a few pounds is a recipe for the face-stuffing episodes that keep my padded physique, well, padded.
However, I do have a food-related good intention for the New Year to share. (Notice I didn't say resolution?)
I hereby vow that I will stop hoarding food magazines both at work and at home in 2012.
I will not stack them up in corners, next to my bed, under my desk or in big plastic bins. I will not shuffle them around for years with the intention of looking through them again someday. I will not covet the pictures and recipes for more than a month. I will copy the recipes and stories that sound wonderful and I will recycle the remaining pages.
And I will cook those recipes.
What's your new year's food, uh, resolution?
Lorie Hutson writes and edits stories for the Food section of The Spokesman-Review. She hoards cookbooks and food magazines, but loves sharing great recipes and restaurant tips.
Gina Boysun is an online developer for spokesman.com. In her spare time, she channels Alton Brown and other food nerds for cooking inspiration.
Carolyn Lamberson is an assistant city editor for The Spokesman-Review. She's a foodie who has no time to cook. Still, a girl can dream ...
Ruth Reynolds is a copy editor at the SR. "I would bake and cook more than I do if I didn't have to keep cleaning off my kitchen counters. My favorite kitchen appliance is my rice cooker. No. My immersion blender."
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ruthr on January 03 at 9:00 p.m.
Those Cooking Light issues on the table in the newsroom are/were mine. I have been purging magazines, too! I have decided not to renew one of my food magazine subscriptions. The other one I mistakenly paid for two more years in advance! Good luck with your goal. You know where to bring the offending publications! HA!
OldHayden on January 18 at 6:32 a.m.
My “good intention,” too…and I’m keeping it. I find recipes I want to try in the magazines and then find them online. I save a link and give the recipe a try. So far this year I’ve made Singing Rice Soup, Arancini and Tandoori Bread (all keepers) and 1 Skillet Spaghetti, Frenchy Toast Casserole and Mumbai Chicken (not keepers.) I’ve even “recycled” my magazines to a friend.