As most of you know, I’m a horrible cook. Really, very terrible. I never had interest in cooking and then once I started to cook for myself, I couldn’t pay attention long enough to cook a decent…anything. I hesitate to spend the money to purchase ingredients “to waste” on a meal I’ve already resolved to destroy. What sucks about this the most is that I (sort of) work in the food industry and constantly hear about people making these amazing concoctions (today was Dave’s pasta with braised elk something-or-another) and knowing that I “can’t” make these items myself. Oh, the other thing that sucks is that I’m an adult and need to stop being such a baby.

One of the bloggers I follow recently instituted “The Grand Plan” and has been following her TGP to a tee. Inspired by her, I’ve developed my own TGP (which I guess I should discuss later) and one of the steps is actually, legitimately making an attempt to learn to cook. (This may have also been inspired by the movie Julie and Julia…)

So far I have:

• one meh cookbook
• Krysten’s recipe for veggie chili
• My grandmother’s recipe for spaghetti sauce
• Instructions on how to poach an egg
• A link to 101cookbooks.com
• and best of all, Green City Market volunteer Lisa’s offer to come to my apartment a few times to teach me a few recipes (first session is Oct. 19th). This will probably be the most useful since I’m a serious kinesthetic learner.

If anyone has any tips or recipes, please send them my way. I suppose I should start with easy recipes for the cooking impaired, so keep that in mind. No Roast Duck for me!