For Christmas I bought blank cookbooks for all five of our kids. I told them to give them back to me and start telling me their favorite recipes and I will begin to fill them for them. They thought it was great!
I never had any interest in cooking while I was growing up, and after I started cooking some things, my mom just gave some advice over the phone,. I found recipes, but never thought to get all her recipes. I have her cookbooks and the notes and handwritten recipes and clipped recipes that were stuck in them, but I never know just which she cooked from those that were just collected. I have stumbled upon several here and there, and have sucessfully duplicated some others. But, I wish.....