Cookbook Collecting

Different people collect different things... packrats collect everything, others may collect items like sports memorabilia, stamps or movies. I collect cookbooks. I usually try to find one (if there is one in English) whenever I travel for work... I've had better luck in some places than others. Oddly enough, I still
probably haven't made a recipe out of half of the cookbooks that I do own. I do enjoy spending time in the kitchen (more on the weekends or vacation), but enjoy reading through cookbooks even more.

For the past seven months, I have kept up the consolidation of other recipes (from magazines, blogs, Food Network, intranet sites, etc) into binders, rather than accumulating recipes from random sources and keeping them disorganized.

Some of the ones I've found this weekend that I will add to the "kid recipe" section are:

- Chocolate Chip and Banana Ice Cream Sandwiches
- No-Bake Chocolate and Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars

I've also found two cookbooks to pre-order. Lucky for me, they are not available until after my due date - but at least I can arrange purchase for them ahead of time.

-Giada's Kitchen
-Martha Stewart's Cooking School

Now if only I could be sure I'd have time to look at the cookbooks after the baby comes. Something tells me that it won't seem so important after he's around!