Post Holiday Cooking Blahs

I need inspiration. After months of planning holiday menus and slaving away in the kitchen, I have no idea what to cook. Our standard weeknight meals of salmon, shrimp or chicken with veggies or rice seem boring. And after eating so many turkey and ham dinners I don’t want anything heavy.

This happens to me every so often. I want new flavors, new recipes, new cooking challenges! Throw out the old menus and bring in something completely new.

Tonight I think I will curl up with my new Joy of Cooking (Christmas present from Chris) and some of my Barefoot Contessa‘s and see if I can’t find at least 2 or 3 new recipes. I have a bottle of Indonesian Ginger marinade just sitting in the pantry waiting to be used on chicken. Hmm.. maybe that will be what I cook on New Years…

If you have any new and exciting recipes, send them my way!! Oh, and I need to break in my new Le Creuset dutch oven, so anything involving dutch ovens will be particularly appreciated!!

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