Homemade cookie(bookies)
July 16th 2008 08:22
If I may, I’d like to return to an earlier posting on a phenomenon I’ve called Lifestyle Magazine Living. You know what I’m talking about here, you read a glossy magazine, and you see the highly stylised food and before you know it, you’re buying quail eggs and goiji berries without any firm idea on how to use them. Whilst I won’t comment on how many quail eggs it takes to make a good omelette, I would like to focus on the recipes that pepper our weekend newspapers and magazines – and the sort of people that cut them out to use.
Whilst I can salute the resourcefulness of spicing up the daily diet in this way, I’ve never really understood cutting them out. When last I tried, the recipe disappeared before I could attempt cooking it – surely that necessitates leaving the recipes in the newspaper from whence they came? And then the light globe clicked on above my head.
What if I made my own cook book?
One exercise book: $0.59
Craft glue: $1.49
Cancelling my subscription to Good Food Magazines, $500 – I realise the answer to this question should be ‘priceless’ but it’s my blog and I can do with it what I want.
As with anything in society, some rules apply to the making of a cook book. Given I have a short attention span, its probably a good thing there are only two rules and they are as follows; you must test the recipe out at least once before committing it to paper and, secondly, avoid pasting in the supplied photographs because your food will never look the same. Follow these rules and you’ll never buy another cook book again.
Of course, you will have to hide the book for fear that you’ll expose yourself as the biggest cheapskate in the world… but that’s another problem.
Whilst I can salute the resourcefulness of spicing up the daily diet in this way, I’ve never really understood cutting them out. When last I tried, the recipe disappeared before I could attempt cooking it – surely that necessitates leaving the recipes in the newspaper from whence they came? And then the light globe clicked on above my head.
What if I made my own cook book?
One exercise book: $0.59
Craft glue: $1.49
Cancelling my subscription to Good Food Magazines, $500 – I realise the answer to this question should be ‘priceless’ but it’s my blog and I can do with it what I want.
As with anything in society, some rules apply to the making of a cook book. Given I have a short attention span, its probably a good thing there are only two rules and they are as follows; you must test the recipe out at least once before committing it to paper and, secondly, avoid pasting in the supplied photographs because your food will never look the same. Follow these rules and you’ll never buy another cook book again.
Of course, you will have to hide the book for fear that you’ll expose yourself as the biggest cheapskate in the world… but that’s another problem.
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