This month Iâ€ve picked Bon Appetit mostly because I was taking a look at Barbara Fairchildâ€s book on the Cookbook section of the Books-a-Million Bookstore and well thatâ€s the magazine I bought and it was 4.99 plus whatever the tax is in Old Town Alexandria.

I think Iâ€m one of the few people obsessed with Food Magazines, theyt have everything I think about most of the time, Food, Photograhy, Design & stories, there is usually people behind each project working their butts off to bring new things, ideas and concepts, reinventing oldies, cooking I hope.

This is going to be a naked truth because I will be very honest. I think not even once I have tried a recipe from a Food magazine, maybe once a sweet potato brownie because I was starting a diet, and it was good, but I ended up serving it with whipped cream and ice cream so I broke the whole recipe goal. Shame on me.

This time Bon Appetit is showing several interesting recipes, and I will refuse to try a recipe thats calling for fancy stuff, at this point of my life I have almost NO money so I will do as much as I can afford, I apologize for this, to whoever reads my humble and unknown Blog.

So this it how it starts.

Wild Mushroom Risotto
Chicken, Vegetable and Dumpling Soup
Maple-Apple Pie with Walnut Streusel or
Maple-GingerBread Layer Cake with Salted Maple-Caramel Sauce
Beet and Carrot Salad with Coriander and Sesame Salt
Quick Coq Au Vin (very worried about this one)

Once I am done with this magazine I will count the recipes and hopefully make these or more or less before the end of October.

If you want to propose which magazine I should test recipes and read completely for November shoot an email to littleladycook@gmail.com and I will check it out.

Iâ€ll say goodbye for now, gotta run to work, 3 days more of work and then 2 lovely days off, hopefully it will be me, the kitchen and some volleyball if possible, they boy is going to NYC, long story.

¡a comer!

I love to read the Deep Dish section and imagine I can travel to all these cities and visit new restaurants and the restaurants that have had Chef changes. Also visit a place right before it closes and assist to the unveiling of a new one, I guess I day dream a lot sometimes wishing my last name was “Reichl”.

The ads on this magazine also bother me a little, but if I compare the 6 dollars I paid for this magazine in comparison with “Gastronomica” that is almost $14 I shouldn’t complain.

One of my favorite segments is the “Whisk around the world”.  This time Julie Mautner takes me to cities and countries I really want to visit someday: Puerto Rico, St. Martin, Antigua, Sardinia, Barcelona and New Zealand.

Of course the events section is amazing, for example I wish I could go to the Boston Seafood Show, but maybe one day I will be able to pick just anything from this magazine, get a ticket and go.

The drink arts is my least favorite section I am a very simple person perhaps and when it comes to drinks vodka, lime and ice is fine, the rest is extra. However, Kara Newman presents a drink by “Merino” names “Rose Angel” that looks just like the perfect drink for this hot/humid Spring day, the drink has strawberries, cucumber, vodka, basil and then the fancy ones arrive, black Hawaiian lava salt, St. Germain Elderflower queen, yes sure of course I have some of that in my pantry.

Yes for the magazines options on January and February I would have bought it.