Brussels Sprouts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Over at The Kitchn, one of my favorite foodie sites, they are posting reader resolutions having to do with food. Here are the ones I found most inspiring and aligned with my own goals for the year:

Learn three new recipes a month

I’m planning to draw mine from the piles of recipes I have on Pinterest, in an effort to actually maintain my boards there as useful resources and not just another time-suck. My current practice is to go back and comment on any recipe I’ve pinned and actually made, so I’d like to keep doing that as the year progresses.

Cook more whole foods for my family

This goes along well with my freezer cooking goal, and I’m planning to begin by stocking up on homemade tomato sauce for my freezer and then continue in my quest to find my favorite homemade pizza dough recipe.

Experiment with food I think I don’t like

Spinach, arugula, salad, dressing, gravy: these are only a few of the foods I currently eat that would have been unthinkable for me at different points in my life. I was a legendarily picky eater as a child, and one of the great jobs of becoming a decent home cook has been the ability to customize my meals enough to avoid foods I detest (like ricotta cheese, which will never appear in a pasta dish of mine). Since I’ve found some success with adding foods, I’d like to add more, especially in the vegetable arena. I’ve got a few recipes with butternut squash and Brussels sprouts I’d like to try, as well as cauliflower, to help me make more progress.

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