I took on the crazy project of redoing our family cookbook this year. Ever since I did the first one our family has talked about how much they use it but they've also commented on recipes that need to be added and ones that need to be taken out or changed. We've also had several people join our family since then and we wanted to add their yummy recipes too. I was hoping that everyone would be willing to pay for them if we did it instead of a gift exchange for Christmas. When I suggested the idea, everyone was on board. As a matter of fact, several people wanted to buy multiple books. I also had the stipulation that Todd help me with a database to easily put it into a book format. He suggested the family website and said it would be easy to do it from there. Little did he know what he was signing up for. I actually ended up with the easiest part, collecting recipes and entering them in online. Todd and Gale put in hours and hours of formatting and reformatting to get to the finished product. But it was well worth the hours. The finished product has arrived and I love it. It has around 300 tried and true family recipes. The book is half-sized (to help limit the amount of counter space it takes up) with a coil binding that allows you to fold the book in half. It has one recipe per page and includes several pages for adding recipes. There are indexes and pages of pictures. I love it and can't wait to start using it!
