I’m very keen on trolling around thrift shops and have been lucky enough to find a lot of real gems in my hunt.
After my father passed, I was cleaning out the house and came across his small selection of cookbooks published under the Le Cordon Bleu banner. They are very good - fine dining recipes and techniques arranged into separate categories (fish, chicken, potatoes, soup, cakes etc) with each subject having a book of its own, not overly big, but a format of “collect them all!” kind of thing.
I hung onto the ones he had and have used some of the recipes from time to time.
Only a few weeks ago, I was out thrifting and came across a selection of other titles from the same series and got very excited. I can add to my collection! Collect them all!
I grabbed up all the titles they had there that I didn’t have myself and was headed to the counter to purchase.
Then, something made me stop and I thought - I don’t really need these. I will get pleasure from looking through them, I might even use some of the recipes. They will further my collection and make it closer to completion, but I don’t really need them.
All of the recipes are available online and I can copy them into my recipe library app. Many of the recipes I’ve been making for years, I assisted with the opening curriculum for Le Cordon Bleu in my home town years ago. The recipes don’t change much in that establishment.
I put the books back and decided not to add to my already overwhelming cookbook collection.
Hoarding is real, folks
