One of my goals for this year was to start mixing it up in the kitchen. I've always been a great baker but man cannot live on bread alone. It was time to start finding some recipes for meals that we hadn't tried before and giving them a shot. My husband and I even set up a rating system:
1) I would eat it again - as is.
2) I would eat it again - with some changes.
3) I wouldn't eat this again - no matter what you did to it.
So, I set aside my ego and prepared about three new recipes every week (keeping a few old standards in the mix just in case the experiments didn't go well).
I learned a lot from this experience but the real lesson was that there are some YUKKY recipes out there on the internet. Two sites that I found that had excellent recipes (that don't take an entire day to prepare) for everything from appetizers to desserts are:
Betty Crocker
http://www.bettycrocker.com/
Kraft Foods
http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf
(Bonus: Both of these sites give you an online recipe box to store your favorite recipes.)
Has anybody else found any good websites with recipes that we can try?