I had been asleep on my side, cocooning as I slowly began to wake up but only enough to open one eye. I'm well rehearsed at trying to tease myself back to sleep being a chronic insomniac. After trying to recite a poem I mentally listed the books of the bible, but I could only get to number 5, Deuteronomy. It turned into a crazy repitious mantra that woke me up with the force of a defibrilator. I glanced at the clock and it dawned on me I had about 20 minutes before the Perry Mason New Years Day marathon would commence.
It was warm and I didn't want to get up. I began counting the cookbooks stacked on the shelf next to my bed, I got to 45 not including a couple of years worth of cooking magazines,can't part with those. There are 2 shelves full in other rooms that didn't make it into the count. It's crazy, I'm an obsessive collector of cookbooks and I'm considering one more.
My cookbooks are in order by type. Pastry books take center stage, and they are plentiful. There are church kitchen types, retro 50's and 60's casseroles, antique all inclusives with directions such as 'add some', international cooking, vegan, vegetarian, books devoted to one food group, one item, less than 5 items, less than 30 minutes, cooking for an army or only 2, to name a few.
There's always an alpha, and for now it's Alton Brown's newest, Good Eats, the Early Years. Every recipe that I've tried is a no fail. I'm also very attached to all of my vegan, vegetarian tomes since I'm trying to change my eating habits. The point is, I love my books. At any given moment one of them could take its rightful place as alpha, so I can abandon none of them. When my feet finally hit the cold, cold floor I went straight to the computer to look up a recipe. At some point I may explore the psychology in that but for now, Perry's on and I need to find out what comes after Deuteronomy.
Breakfast? Turnip Greens with a drop of sesame oil, eggbeaters and coffee.
Lunch? Unsure, I'll probably just replicate something.
Dinner? Vegetarian chicken strips and whole wheat dumplings.
Happy 2010! All the best, Kate
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