Seeking Culinary Inspiration By Britt Allgood
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have been in a cooking funk of late. Well, maybe more of a rut - a deep, long, seemingly endless rut. With the forced isolation of the past year, I bet many of us have gotten into a food rut! My heart and taste buds go out to those who rely on delivery services for their sustenance. I mean you can only eat so much pizza, Chinese food, or tacos even on a Tuesday (which it happens to be). So, how do I overcome these culinary bouts of stagnation? I look for inspiration anywhere I can find it. Sometimes it's cooking shows like Chopped, or Dinners, Drive Inn’s and Dives but mostly I turn to my cookbooks. I must admit, I’m a bit of a recipe hound. I find them on
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the Internet, take them off cans or from magazines. But my most favorite source of cooking inspiration are my cookbooks. (You know those things in the corner of the kitchen collecting dust that your Aunt gave you when you moved out on your own, or you inherited from a much loved Grandma.) Some may have been gag gifts like my Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook, but I will tell you there are some amazing recipes in these tombs. My most recent cookbook acquisition is called Heroes’ Feast, The Official D&D Cookbook. Yes, I’m a geek who plays “Dungeons and
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