New Year, New Recipes

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Another New Year's resolution I sort of made was to make more new recipes.  All too often I find that I either get busy and end up going though a fast food drive through, or resorting to my old stand-by recipes.  Of course it helps that I have a wide variety of recipes that I like to fall back on, ones that I can make without even thinking about it and know turn out well.  However my mom and myself like to clip and save recipes and we each have a great number of them to start trying to use.  In the past my excuse was that my new recipes were messy, however this winter I have taken it on myself to organize.  During the organization process I threw out recipes that either looked like they took too many ingredients, used ingredients that are hard to find here, required too much prep work that I couldn't see myself doing, or anything similar to that.  I pitched all the ones that I didn't think I would ever actually be interested in making.  Then I glued them to pages in sections - the usual, snacks, soups and salads, main dishes, sides dishes, desserts and of course, a junk drawer page.  I think I will make it my goal to make at least 24 new recipes this year.  That's 2 a month and to me it does seem doable.  So far I'm on target for January.  One is an onion soup recipe that turned out easy and good and one is a recipe I made up for lasagna - all cheese.  Of course I would be pleased to get in a few more recipes....  Do you save recipes? Photo: Mine