For the past two years or so my eldest daughter had been asking me to make her a cookbook of all my recipes so that she can cook them for her family and then hand them down to her children.
Of course it takes a major occurrence for me to sit down long enough to even start this project. Well I just had surgery and that is my major occurrence. I don’t feel well enough to sew and I am tired of sitting here watching the news and court tv.
I decided that today would be the day that I would start this project. Being the thrifty, tight-wad really, person that I am, I perused the internet for free recipe page downloads. I found quite a few recipe card downloads, but being that I want to create a cookbook they wont work for my project. I did find a few full-page templates, but again they just weren’t me.
I came upon this great tutorial http://www.ehow.com/how_5035217_create-recipe-template.html Oh how I love a good tutorial. In a short time I had a great recipe page template created and of course it’s adorned with aprons.
Paired with one of my apron creations this is going to be a wonderful Christmas gift for her. A gift that she can use and enjoy for many years to come.
Considering that I’ve only typed out one recipe, I’m feeling pretty accomplished about right now.
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what a great idea! we (husband’s family mostly) tried to get together recipes for a family cookbook and it went pretty much nowhere. And that means many recipes are lost – as my mother in law has dementia…and her daughters don’t have many of her “favorites” memorized. Keep at it!