Welcome and here's the goal...

Welcome to my Dill Pickle Kitchen!

I admit it.
I am guilty of having a Cookbook Addiction.
Now, it's not at a 'Hoarders' level or anything, there aren't STACKS of book all over the place...
But you could say I have definitely have enough for the amount of space I live in.

There are Great Intentions that accompany each purchase.
The plan is to create many meals & dishes from the new Cookbook that caught my eye.
But as it goes, some get used more than others; while many get forgotten with each new addition.

This has led me to a personal challenge:

A few months ago I found this book. "The Best of Clean Eating" from the Editors of 'Clean Eating' Magazine.

As I do with every new Cookbook, I flipped through reading over the culinary delights on each page. This one is FILLED with amazing recipes. 

You know how sometimes you have a cookbook that definitely has some crazy good recipes, but also has many that couldn't interest you in the least?

Not this one!!

I can honestly say that I am intrigued by all 201 recipes between its covers. There is a little bit of everything. All of it promoting healthy, easy, and delicious meals. The tag line is: "Improving your life one meal at a time."

'Intrigued' was the only word I could use as until yesterday, I had not actually made any of the recipes. 

Sad, I know.

So the other day I was compelled to take another look through this beautiful cookbook.
Which led to this decision:

I would like to make EVERYTHING is here!

I have divided the 201 recipes into a weekly cooking goal. I will make 5 recipes from the book every week for 40 weeks. I've allowed some extra time for vacations and such that I will be away.

I've printed out the name of each recipe with page number onto
colour coded card (ie: orange=lunches; green=fish, etc). They
are divided into 5 card bundles. Every week I'll randomly pick
a bundle and those will be the recipes I have to make that week.

After I've selected the recipes for the week,
 I'll put them on the fridge like this.
Depending on what our (my husband and I),
will determine what day I can make what.

The recipes for this week  (June 9 - June 15) are:

• Fish & Chips
• Curried Egg White Sandwich with Apricots
• Whole-Wheat Oricchiette with Steak & Vegetables
• Chicken Almondine with Lemon Green Beans
• Roasted Rainbow Tomato Salad

While I will not be listing the recipes individually in this blog, I will be giving my review of them and any hurdles along the way.

I would love to hear what you think as well.

If you enjoy what you see during this challenge, I encourage you to check this book out and try some of these recipes too. And if you really are intrigued, get the book too and cook along with me with the weekly recipe list. I'll post the new selections every Friday/Saturday.

Here we go....