I love new cookbooks.  They are so inspiring.  Cooking can be fun but so often — in the craziness of life — it becomes more of a chore.  New cookbooks take the tediousness out of it, even if only for a minute.

I mean, seriously, it is completely unappealing to come home after a long day, a long commute, and have to put together a meal.  I’m not saying that I don’t enjoy it sometimes.  John will put on some nice music and we’ll spend the evening putting a meal together and talking about life and it’s really good.  But it’s hard to do that every night.

Anyway, I had a moment while the man was away on business when I felt completely inspired to purchase new cookbooks that follow the paleo diet trend.  I also — in my infinite wisdom and enthusiasm — bought the PBS mini-series Anne of Green Gables and a PSU sweatshirt that reads “I graduated from Penn State so you can assume that I’m always right” — or something along those lines that I thought was funny when I bought it.

My cookbooks arrived today and I greedily paged through them before John got home — salivating at photos of food I would never normally crave.  Food photography is an incredible art.  I salute it.

And now that we have all these new recipes that are gluten-free and sugar-free and dairy-free and all kinds of other things free it is almost –almost- inspiring enough to be excited about modifying our diets.

The thing is — I don’t really like doing things because I’m supposed to.  I get very ornery and stubborn.  And being told by many (I mean many) people that I need to use diet to help with my MS makes me want to do nothing in regards to my diet.  But …. and this is painful to admit … when I’m strict and good about what I’m eating and drinking, I do actually feel better.

So here John and I are, at the beginning of another food journey, another walk down an unknown path in hopes that there is abundance just around the corner. And I’m feeling pretty good about it — but that’s because the pictures in these books are so pretty.  Hopefully everything tastes as good as it looks.