February 7, 2020

The New Recipe Cooking Club

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Cook one new recipe a week for 2020. 

That’s my goal for this year. 

When I was in culinary school I was constantly cooking a new dish from a different type of cuisine, learning a new technique or ingredient. Now that I’m out of school I actually have to go out of my way to try something new and it isn’t just expected of me. 

It can become SO easy to start cooking the same thing over and over again. I know I can’t be the only one who feels this way. You know what ingredients you need to buy, you don’t need to follow a recipe, and you know you’ll like it. But that’s not fun, and you don’t learn anything. 

My good friend, Nina and I have been cooking one new recipe a week since the beginning of the year. We are working from two cookbooks, which are both amazing sources:

The Milk Street Tuesday Night cookbook is great for weeknight meals and pulls from all kinds of international cuisine (in a very approachable way) so it introduces you to new ingredients and techniques without being overwhelming. There are a few meat recipes in there that we might sprinkle in to the mix, but for the most part we are focusing on the veggie ones.

The Six Seasons Cookbook is the other book we are working from which I consider a vegetable Bible. From Joshua McFadden, it is separated into 6 seasons each focusing on the different vegetables that are in season. So it might give you 3 recipes focusing on beets during the winter chapter, and 5 focusing on tomatoes in the summer chapter. It is a great way to start cooking vegetables in a new way. 

We would love to have you join us! There really isn’t too much to know about it but this is roughly how it works; at the beginning of each week we will pick a new recipe from this spreadsheet (feel free to add to it) and I will highlight it in green, and then we will each cook it on our own time during the week. It is always fun to see how the recipes comes out for other people so we generally send each other pictures of how it turned out, and what we thought we would change for the next time if we decided we would make it again. Since we have had a few people join the group I think the easiest way to go about sharing our weekly recipe pictures and feedback would be to post on instagram using the hashtag #Thenewrecipecookingclub Does that work for you guys?

We are trying our best to do 52 recipes this year. There are weeks that we won’t be able to cook (vacation etc…) but we plan on doing an extra recipe the week before or the week after. 

Feel free to invite anyone you think might be interested! The more the merrier!

Now let’s get cooking!