Something That Looks Great in a Recipe Book - but You Have Never Cooked It...

when i see the picture i want to eat it more than cook it by myself, better if somebody cook for me, i like to try cooking new dish but first thing i want is eat...hahaha

Oh yes, I like to look at the photos in the recipe book, but thats as far as I get..LOL...Even from a recipe book I do not have any idea...

yes I do it all the time, I think to myself oh that looks good, maybe I'll try it lol than after I close the book I tend to forget about food and cooking, there are so many things that look so good in them you want to make but you need to choose which is best and healthly to eat!

oh that happens all the time!! i just love going through good recipes but hardly try cooking it myself. sometimes i divert the cooking part to my mom who would invariably prepare it in her own way. the original gets lost, somehow.

This is the second mention of lobster that i've seen in posts today. It must be readily available where you live. They are scarce in Australia and very expensive. A tiny one about 6-8 inches long can cost as much as $30. They are frozen too...not fresh. Hardly worth it for a couple of mouthfuls. I love to look at recipes and the idea is to cook them but I rarely do...certainly not lobster...lol.

Lol no i will not look pictures in a recepie book just for funn. I think that is a terrible waste of time, and life is way too short for this. I can look in a recepie book though but just to get an idea on how to cook what I am cooking.

Yeah, there alot of recipes that I would like to try someday but never got around to them just yet.

Lobter should be good at any time of the year. Also after cooking for all the years that I have, it usually is the best scenerio that the picture shows. My cooked, baked, roasted, grilled goodies normally do not look like the picture. They taste good anyway. Go ahead if you wish to eat something and enjoy the journey. You will probably be pleasantly surprised.

Yeah, my mom buys a lot of recipe books but she never tries them all.. There are a lot of mouth watery dishes in the books which I always insist her to try out, but she says its kinda very difficult and wud take a lot of her time...

Absolutely! One of my favorite magazines is filled with the most amazing contradictions--it starts out with fashion items showing skinny models, then goes through a whole slew of weight loss articles and ends with enough food features to entertain an army. Sure, I look at all the scrumptious foods that are so very elegantly photographed. Sometimes I even glance at the recipes that I have no intention of making. My husband doesn't like fancy food, and besides there are plenty of other things to do in life than spending more time than necessary cooking, so I've never made one of these recipes but it is fun to look at them. Hmmmm...I've never met a lobster I wasn't interested in eating. Why do you tend to avoid that food in the winter?

Ha, all the time! Especially if the recipe calls for a lot of junk that I've never heard of or don't have around the house. Sometimes it's fun just to look at the pictures and wish I could cook like that, haha!

all the time. even if the i don't try to cook the dish.

When I get tired of cooking the same stuff all the time, I head for the cupboard with the cookbooks, grab a handful and head for the davenport so that I can spread out and look, drool, and say "well maybe", and when my eyes are full, the books go back to the cupboard to wait for the next time. It's a great way to spend a raining afternoon!

I own a few good cook books and one of my Fav Puddings is Bread and Butter Pudding i followed it out of the Greats British Cook book as it was called. and it was lovely one of the best Bread and butter puddings i have ever had, only one person ever made me one better that was my nanna, i also followed a fish & chips recipe once from a celebs chefs book when i was 15 in a cooking class in High School tasted alot better than the chip shops

Yes, I often look at recipe books too and figuring out when I can actually cook the dish. There is one recipe which I hadn't tried yet. It is called Layered Moist Chocolate Cheese Cake. I am a cake lover, and the picture of the cake was so temptating. However, I didn't make any initiative to bake the cake. It looks quite difficult to prepare, and I am afraid I would just lose money buying all the ingredients. So for luxury cakes like these, I would prefer buying them rather than baking them myself.

I do that quite a lot. I love cooking, I love food & I love looking at recipes. Unfortunately my husband has a lot of fairly severe food allergies, so I can't cook a lot of recipes. So I just look at the pictures. Sometimes I can improvise a recipe.

Hello urban. I have tons of recipe books safely tucked in one corner of my house. I used to browse through some of it and just the picture itself can make my stomach growled with protest. There are some ingredients that are difficult to find though. I don't have much time feasting on the recipes but only stick to those that I can prepare easily.

I often look at recipes and pictures in cook books but I do not cook any of it. Nobody says that cook books and recipes are for cooks and chefs. I just enjoying reading, browsing and oogling at the food presented.

LOL... I am looking at them all the time, but most of them I am not supposed to eat! The food I am supposed to eat, hardly ever appear in cook books.. ;-)

Well, you got my attention as soon as you mentioned lobster! Mind you, it is one seafood that is eaten quite rarely by me because of the price! I have often checked out recipe books, drooling the whole time, but most times won't cook it myself, as I hate comparing my result with the one in the book and seeing them look completely different, lol!