Cooking Magazines & Books

I don't know about you, but I love cooking books and magazines. It's an obsession. I love how they look, I love how they smell, I love the glossy pictures, I love reading ingredients and imagining in my mind as to their taste and what I would do differently. I don't always use the recipes, but reading a bunch gives me ideas.

Yesterday I bought the new Donna Hay magazine that just came out. I went home, settled into my chair with a glass of white wine and flipped through the beautiful pages. Roasts, cakes, cocktails....all these wonderful recipes filling my mind. After I was done, I put the magazine down and realized something remarkable. I buy these magazines, I read them, study them, and then promptly file them away. Very rarely do I actually make something from them. One exception being my favorite cooking magazine series, Fine Cooking.

So I've decided to put my magazines and books to use. Every week, maybe twice a week, I will actually make a recipe from a book and/or magazine until I have officially made something from every book/magazine I own. I kind of started last night with my favorite book, Weber's Grilling: Over 200 Recipes (a must have book for anyone that owns a BBQ). Yes, I've made lots of delicious things from this book, but I figured this was an appropriate entry because what I had made is not something I usually do.....

Rob wanted corn on the cob. Rob never wants corn on the cob. So I figured that instead of the "normal" way to have this delicious summer veggie, I would BBQ it. So I went to my BBQ bible and found a recipe for corn on the cob, BBQ style. Now, it's not that hard to make corn on the cob via the BBQ, but what I found interesting was the butter paste you put on the corn before you BBQ it. Butter, parmesan cheese, basil, garlic, etc.....it was simply the most wonderful corn on the cob.