My Resolution

I've always loved cooking, and whenever I get a new recipe book I devour it, marking up all the recipes I want to try. However, many of these I never get around to trying out because I'm too busy. By the end of last year I was feeling in a bit of rut, continually making the same old food every week, and wanted this to change. Then came the brainwave - my new year's resolution for 2010 would be to cook a new recipe every week for the year - the recipe can be anything at all such as a main course, a soup, a cake, even a side dish, just so long as it is new!

The first couple of recipes are just about decided - week 1 will be a beef wellington, a recipe I've been wanting to try out for a while, and then in week 2 I've promised to bake a birthday cake for a friend so I'm going to find a completely new cake recipe and give it a go.

The other part of the challenge is to do this in a healthy way. My 30th birthday is only a few months away and I want to lose a bit of weight beforehand, so the diet starts on January 11th. From then on, until I get to target I want my new recipes to be ones that I can eat without worrying about piling on the pounds.

This blog is going to be my record of the recipes of my challenge, and report the successes and failures, as well as making sure I keep on track and get to the 52 new recipes!