This is my resolution too! This weekend I made three things from the Smitten Kitchen cookbook.

This SHOULD be my resolution. I have bought many cookbooks this year. Now I should use them rather than just read them or enjoy the pictures.

I highly recommend Eat Your Books. They have indexed thousands of cookbooks, making them easily searchable. I use my cookbooks much, much more than I did before I found this site. There is a small fee, but it is completely worth it.

http://www.eatyourbooks.com/

I just bought 4 cookbooks! I can't wait for them to arrive and start using them. I plan to do lots of cooking from them this year.

I've been all about this resolution. Cooking is just one of the areas I'm trying to unplug a bit in my life this year, and i've noticed a genuinely more enjoyable cooking experience. I'm baking through Reinhart's Bread Baker's Apprentice so it's a good thing carb control wasn't part of my resolution... :)

Yes! This is on my resolution list too. I find it's just as inspiring to sit down and read the cookbooks as it is to peruse food blogs. Beautiful photos, great stories, and inspiring recipes. So here's to cookbooks in 2013!

Excellent resolution!

One way I have found to make using my cookbooks more fun is to join the effort to review cookbook recipes on www.cookbooker.com. Its free, and a nice supportive community. They even host challenges where everyone collectively reviews from a single cookbook - and you can win cookbooks! You can also log your reviews of recipes from blogs. I find it super helpful when trying to remember where I found that excellent recipe I took to a BBQ in 2011....

This is one of my resolutions as well! I have so many cookbooks but rarely use them. I love looking at the cookbooks and picking out recipes I would love to try but I never seem to remember the recipes and end up going online for inspiration. I signed up for Eat Your Books last year and intend to really get some use out of it this year.

I am getting pretty tired of recipes I find on the Internet which have too much salt in them. Seriously! I never had this problem using published cookbooks, especially Good Housekeeping and Better Homes and Gardens. I should go with my gut instinct when it comes to how much salt to use, but I am so used to trusting recipes that I go on and mess it up anyway.

Wow, glad to see I'm not alone in this resolution--and talk about some extra accountability now that it's shared here! I'll look into some of the sites and apps everyone had mentioned (some irony to using a web-based app to get myself using more hard copy recipes? Nahhhh!)

And thanks for sharing my resolution/picture, it was pretty exciting to scroll past it this morning during my daily Kitchn read-through!

This has inspired me to look through my collection of vintage cookbooks. Thank you!

I have so many cookbooks and usually a few on my nightstand for bedtime reading. I try to focus on making a few things from one cookbook each month (or every few weeks) and then switch to another cookbook. This keeps me from getting overwhelmed by which recipe to try first! Smitten Kitchen, How to Eat Supper, and The Food You Crave are up for recipe trying.

I also tend to cook with out recipes most of the time, so I when I plan out my meals, I try to incorporate some recipe based meals.

I did this for two years on my blog. It was a lot of fun, and a lot of hard work to keep thinking about it and planning, but I did it!