My new adventures in cooking

I say new adventures because I have been a big fan of cooking since high school but seem to have gotten in quite a rut in the last few years. I continually buy new cookbooks as if my life depended on it, however I find that I never cook anything from them. This is sad for a variety of reasons. I feel badly because it seems like a waste of both time and money to continue buying these cookbooks without using them. I also feel disappointed in myself for not following something through yet again, it just adds to my pile of things to feel bad about.
This year, 2010 is going to be different. My goal/resolution for 2009 can be summed up as such: do things which are challenging and outside my comfort zone. For 2010 my goals/resolutions are: continue to do things which are outside my comfort zone and which are challenging and to cook things from my cookbooks. Now I don't have a steadfast rule such as "cook three new recipes a week" or anything like that but simply to cook new things as often as possible. So that's what I'm going to do. WIth this I hope to explore many different types of cooking from Italian to Mexican to Indian and so on. The focus will be on recipes which are healthy and not to complicated. I am sure some will be bad and some will be great, recipes which I will go back to again and again. I am looking forward to finding those.

So, let's get going!