Making your own cookbook...

[Ce'nedra]

Have you made one yourself? I would, but most of my mother's recipes come from clipped-out Canadian Living mags. What I really need to get a hold of are my grandmother's recipes. Of course, since she was usually cooking for 10 or more people, they all start with, " Take a 5 kg bag of flour..."

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Am in the beginning stages (since early this year if I recall correctly)...

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[Ce'nedra]

I am in the process of compiling cookbook for my 92 year old mother to give as a Christmas gift to family members.  I am using the Mastercook software.  I have entered the recipes.  then in the section for Notes, I have written the story around the recipe as my mother has dictated it to me...whose favorite recipe it was, how she acquired it, when she prepared it etc.  So each recipe is personalized.  I also have some photos of her preparing some of the recipes that I will insert.

The software allows me to publish (print) it out in various formats.  Then I will bind them with a comb binder.

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That sounds wonderful and is kinda similar to how I'm making my cookbook too. For each, there's a lovely personal anecdote

[nakji]

It looks lovely, Ce'nedra. What recipes are going in?

[Ce'nedra]

It looks lovely, Ce'nedra. What recipes are going in?

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Thanks

A good part of it will be mum's tried and true recipes (i.e. the food I grew up with), grandma's recipes, my own (still working on that), recipes I've tweaked/adapted from mum and various other sources such as those I ripped out from magazines, aunt's recipes and hopefully, I'll be begging my friends for some as well.

Basically anything that I hold dear to my heart.

[Ce'nedra]

Oh yeah, even recipes that mum learnt from her friends

[piazzola]

No really I have not done it but I should write a book about my mixed heritage

It should really be interesting since I have been called a Jew because of my food preference yet I am not then again I like pork and beef and lot of it. then I like lots of crusty bread and pasta (well I grew up on it for thirty odd years).

very interesting background indeed. yes despite external appearances I am through and through Latin at heart.

I like Asian food but North and Central Asian food which is very different to the South.