I do not know about you, but I have this really bad habit of buying cookbooks and then never using them.  As you saw a couple weeks ago, I have collected quite a few cookbooks.  One of my new goals is to try something new from one of the cookbooks every week.  This way I won’t be overwhelmed with new recipes every week, but I will be expanding my culinary horizons.  This week I started with a fun book by Rachel Ray.  I just love her.

I actually cooked 2 things from her cookbook this week.  The first was Spaghetti a la Ceci.  It’s a chickpea spaghetti sauce that, as she said in the book, we were apparently enjoying with people all across Rome!  I picked it because it was different and it ended up being very tasty.  One problem though — I cooked the sauce down a bit too much and so it left the dish a little dry.

The second dish that we made (actually Matt cooked it, as I was running late) was Chicken Caesar burgers.  We had a few issues as Matt doesn’t speak cookbook-ease yet, but they were still delicious.

What do you think?  Do those meals look edible, or what?  How often do you cook from cookbooks?