Too Many Recipes

I love collecting recipes, but I'm starting to realize I have way too many and will never be able to try them all. Before the Internet, I collected cookbooks, many of which I've given away at this point. I can't bear to part with all of them, though, as you can see. Anyone else have this problem?

 

I love cooking, and I love books, so it's hard to give up my cookbook collection completely. I've also got an addiction to magazines, and every time I come across a recipe in a magazine that looks good, I tear it out. A couple years ago I started pasting these recipes into a journal so that I could browse them like I would a cookbook. It's so much fun, but wow, I've got a lot of recipes. Two large journals full.

 

Plus the cookbooks, plus the recipes on Pinterest that I've saved. Plus, really, the entire Internet. So even though I know I can't make all the recipes, I'm setting a goal of trying at least one new recipe a week. This week I paged through my breadmaker cookbook and found a recipe for Sally Lunn bread that I had never made before. (You can find it all over the Internet if you google it.) 

As a sort-of homesteader, I keep wondering, are breadmakers cheating? I don't think so. The bread is still homemade, right? I guess I call myself a sort-of homesteader because I'm trying to do as many homemade and earth-friendly type things as I can manage, but I will most likely never be off grid or own my own cows. I make my own dishwasher soap, and I have done things in the past such as make my own butter and ketchup. Next spring/summer I plan to get started growing fruits and vegetables at the house I moved into a few months ago.

 

In any case, the bread was delicious, slathered with (not homemade) butter!