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I overheard my husband comment to my son about my cookbook collection. I believe the phrase “too many” was used. Sacrilege! There is no such thing as too many cookbooks.

This weekend I pawed through a few of them, and it’s sad to say but out of the (ahem) several hundred I have, I cook from 20 of them, tops. The rest just kind of sit there, gathering dust.

Most of them are wonderful books, don’t get me wrong. I bought them with the full intention of using them, but for one reason or another, didn’t get around to it. Or I cooked a thing or two and moved on.

I was thinking for the blog it might be a good idea to pick a book and cook a minimum of five recipes from it. If things don’t work out, then off to the library book sale it goes.

Right now, I’m leaning toward Debra’s Natural Gourmet Cookbook. Debra’s Natural Gourmet is actually a nearby market in West Concord, MA, that I frequent. It always smells so yummy in there, so of course when I saw they had I cookbook, I snapped it up. Unfortunately, I’ve never cooked from it, but that’s about to change. Flipping through it over the weekend I saw dozens of recipes that looked really good, as well as healthy. (I’m back on my triathlon training diet!)