Keziah thay would be neat if you could share some of those tips from "Pears" with us!
Kevin I like you enjoy a cookbook as a novel, and I will never tire of looking at it! I like you can almost taste the food as I read about it. Hey at least that way I won't gain too many Lbs! Although I have heard the saying "I can gain weight just by smelling food!" I wonder if that works by looking at it in pictures too........hee-hee.
Posted By: CanMan
Aug 26 # 7 of 21
I actually tossed and/or gave away every single cookbook I had in the house, which included 40+ years of same inherited from my parents, when I finally realized I would never do any of the fancy recipes and especially not the ones for 6-8 people. I'm 65 and on my own. At most I would cook for 2.
I also went through the boxes and boxes of recipe cards, clippings and notes, and tossed everything that fit that same pattern. I did save 3 special family recipes from my grandmother, framed them and put them on the wall to be remembered that way.
The 'keeper' recipes went into my MasterCook program (after deleting all their similar fancy recipe collections made for 6-8 people). I then designed a custom printed (half) page so that recipes would go in to a half-size 3-ring notebook. I've now got 13 specialized recipe notebooks that I "use" and the feeling is great and I add and delete pages on a regular basis.
Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy
Aug 26 # 8 of 21
Wow what a terrific idea CanMan! I do not think I could do that quite yet, but one day. I like the whole idea of personalizing it to suit your own tastes and needs. I even like how you framed the recipes of your grandmothers. I do not have anything like that, but what I do have is an old Book of Ration Stamps, and my grandfather had to sign his name for it, so I have his signature, I am thinking how neat it would be to frame that! Thanks for the very nifty ideas:)
Posted By: chubbyalaskagriz
Aug 27 # 9 of 21
CanMan, I love the idea of commeorating your Grandma's important recipes by framing them and turning them into a work of art to hang in your kitchen!
My place is filled w/ books of all kinds. My l'il sister has instructions to pick the ones she might wish to keep- then get the rest of'em to our small town high school library if anything should ever happen to me.
Posted By: jglass
Aug 27 # 10 of 21
I have three large plastic boxes full of books in storage. Most are paperbacks.
Here in the apartment I have about 100 cookbooks plus 20 or so paperback books.
I have that Mastercook program but never loaded it when I got my new computer finished. I'll have to dig out the cd.
Jon gets his books on tape. Talking books put me to sleep lol.
