… well well well, forty random recipes later and here we still are. Older but none-the-wiser yet still ready and willing to take on the world one recipe at a time. For which I am always grateful. I know we all lead busy life-styles and I too find it incredibly hard on occasion to keep up with the blogging challenges so I really do appreciate any entries that come my way… and this month, to celebrate 40 months i’m going to keep it really simple and return to an old favourite and ask you to select your 40th cookbook and from this cook a recipe on the 40th page…
so here are the rules:
1. count your books from left to right or top to bottom and stop at your 40th book… for those who have less than 40 books simply start counting again from where you started.
2. take that book and open it at page 40
3. cook the recipe on this page or if there isn’t a recipe on page 40 then go to the first recipe on the next page… and don’t cheat… do it with a friend in the room who will make you stick to it… it’s a challenge after all and you’re only cheating yourself… this is specifically designed to take you out of your comfort zone…!
4. you may change the recipe for dietary or monetary or seasonal availability reasons only
5. post it up on your blog, with a link to this page then email me with a link at dominic(@)belleaukitchen.co.uk so I know you’ve joined in, you can also attach my natty new badge to show people you’re taking part.
6. tweet your entry including the hashtag #randomrecipes and I will retweet all I see
7. challenge deadline is June 28th and I will post the round-up on June 29th
… being stuck in London for the foreseeable future I called on my trusty neighbour Tracey to break into the cottage and do the random selecting… now of course I have no real evidence that she did the proper counting (although she assures me she did…) but the text that came through was Daylesford – A Love For Food… Chilled Pea and Mint Soup. This is a gorgeous book full to the brim with incredible and healthy recipes and I’ve actually cooked a few recipes from this book in the past, one of which was in fact a random recipe, plus my ‘go-to’ soup is pea soup, so I was a little disappointed at first but this is random recipes and rules are rules and i’m sure that there’s something they do to their soup that I don’t do to mine and i’ll share this with you all later in the month…
now off you pop and start counting…
eat and of course, enjoy!
Happy 40th birthday to Random Recipes! I will make a concentrated effort to join in this month! 🙂
wow 40 RR challenges! Will try my best to join in this month, sorry I missed out last month.
40 for 40 – sounds so right. Trundling off to Cook Your Books …
Argh, 40 is already looming large in my life (as in, I may be turning it in less than 40 days), do you have to remind me with random recipes as well?!
Count me in for this one, Dom – I've already found my recipe…
oooh 40, well done. I hope I have 40 cookbooks, I am going to have to count now!
SO sorry I missed last month – it was the FIRST time I have missed it – just been away from home too much! I WILL be joining in this month though!
Can't believe it's the 40th one! I've only dabbled before but I must take part in this one.
Wow 40! well done I will be taking part in this, I think for the very first time too.
Angela