My Serious Addiction - I confess!

Hello!

It was so fun to see that I actually have a couple of followers!

What a crack up!

Thank you!...I am flattered!

Sadly,

TODAY

I am making a confession.

I may have to go to Betty Ford's place,

or to the rehab facility that

what's her name (?)

is at, or some other place that deals with

ADDICTION PROBLEMS!

I ADMIT!

I AM AN ADDICT!

I AM ADDICTED TO RECIPES!

AND MAGAZINES!

AND COOKBOOKS!

They are everywhere!

In every room.

In every nook and cranny.

In baskets.

On tables.

On shelves.

On the floor.

On my desk.

On John's desk.

In Toulouse.

At Petit.

In the laundry room.

Outside.

E V E R Y W H E R E !

I have hundreds of past issues of

Bon Appetit

Eating Well

Gourmet

Saveur

Cooking Light

Food and Wine

Food Tv Magazine

(why do I get that magazine when I watch Fo TV all the time?)

And I have thousands of recipes torn out of magazines that I did part with.

Many hundreds of torn out recipes are in file folders named

"to be filed"

and many hundreds of recipes

ARE FILED

in really cool binders.

(I use those a lot)

Many many recipes are at

Petit Soleil,

either being used for our

breakfasts

or

appetizers

or

are in file folders named

"to be tried".

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I have many magazines simply titled

Appetizers

and

Pillsbury's Best Desserts,

Summer's Best,

Fresh and Easy,

and

A Christmas to Remember

This is our coffee table!

And these are just a few of my cookbooks!

I cannot resist,

or walk by

a new cookbook

at

Costco,

or

Barnes and Noble

or Borders.

I can't SAY NO!

John thought when we moved,

that I would take the hundred of past issues of

Bon Appetit

Food and Wine,

Gourmet,

Saveur

Eating Well and

Cooking Light

to Goodwill or to the library.

I tried!

I really tried!

They made it into cardboard boxes,

but I just knew that I would find

at least

ONE

really good recipe

in each

magazine.

So

I went to World Market

and found

these really cute

boxes

and

I

categorized

most,

not all,

the magazines into themes.

Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer

Vegetarian

and then

like a true addict,

I get this

urge,

this overwhelming need,

to pull out

my magazines and

go through them

again

and again

and again.

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This Cooking Light magazine from 2005

had

some killer

Crab Cake (aka Crabby Patty) recipes

in it,

AND

I found

this recipe

that

I

must

make

with our abundanza

of zucchini

we

have in our garden.

ZUCCHINI WITH RICOTTA-BASIL MOUSSE!

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I couldn't get rid of this magazine!

It had great ideas

for appetizers

and cocktails!

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And, of course,

I need recipes from Van Gogh's Table,

and

Monet's Table.

Why?

I DON'T KNOW!!!

BECAUSE

I

AM

AN

ADDICT!

THEY

SAY,

that the first step to

conquering an

addiction, it to admit to it.

and

they I think there are

six or seven other steps

that

I need to take.

or

maybe I can do it on my own

without Betty's help

or Lindsay's advice

(that's her name)

......

Maybe, I can make this into a

life changing experience..

Maybe I can help others,

feed others,

invite others and share recipes with them?

In the meantime,

while I figure this out, I am going to

go through some

recipes

for dinner!

maybe

ZUCCHINI

BOATS

WITH

RICOTTA -BASIL MOUSSE!

BON APPETIT!