Family Cookbook Project--DONE!!

Remember my Family Cookbook project I talked about last year?  Well, I am happy report that I finally DID it!  I went through all my recipes and chose my VERY favorites and created 2 cookbooks.  I actually made two cookbooks--one is 'Christensen Family Favorites' full of our everyday best recipes and the other I named ' Let's Celebrate' and it is full of party food recipes and traditions to celebrate holidays etc.  I used the company called Tastebook and I recommend them wholeheartedly!!  I LOVE my books and they were really easy to make. The hardest part was trying to decide which recipes to include.  Once of my favorite features of the Tastebook Cookbooks is that you can add to them as needed.  It is hardcover book with a very nice binder type mechanism.

Since I have a recipe website, I am always testing recipes and finding new favorites!  Now I can add recipes whenever I want--I just order them online for less than a dollar a page and they come in the mail ready to insert in my cookbook--like this:

I also LOVE that there is a little dedication page in each of the books so I can be "mushy" about how much I love my family and preparing good food and traditions for them:

I will treasure these family cookbooks forever, especially since there are spot for pictures and little notes to personalize each page.  I plan on gifting these book to my boys when they get married.

 

I think a cookbook or a gift card to Tastebook would be the PERFECT gift this Christmas for anyone who enjoys cooking for the ones they love.  If you log onto Tastebook you can see most of my recipes from the sisters café --my username is Melanie Christensen.

Aren't they pretty?

I am really excited to FINALLY have them.  It took be a year to get a round to doing it but I am so glad I did!!  Trust me anyone would LOVE to have one of these beautiful personalized cookbooks!

Can you tell I am a little excited about mine?

xo

Melanie

The Family Cookbook Project

I have decided to create a little keepsake for my children,  a hardbound family cookbook of our favorite recipes, sprinkled with a few pictures and traditions.  As you know I post all my favorite recipes on my other website The Sisters Cafe, and between 4 sisters, there are a lot of great recipes, but I am creating a tab here on Melandboys for only our Christensen family favorites.  That way I can have our favorite recipes organized in one place when I put together my family cookbook.  I am imagining this will be a treasured book when my boys move away from home and start their own families.  I am really excited about this idea.  Have any of you done one of these?  I think I am going to use Blurb.

 

I am so excited about this cookbook!

So, to get started I am going to start reposting some of my family's favorite recipes here to get them organized for this project.  Of course, I will have a gluten free section too:)
If you have any experience doing a family cookbook like this, I would love to hear about it.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
xoxo
Melanie