It's September and Back to School time. Time to get "everyone on the bus" and helping on The Best of the Family Cookbook Project Cookbook!
Well, Summer 2009 has come and gone. Hope you had a great one! Fall is coming officially on the 21st - but it's feeling like fall already with school back in session. So - time to get everyone busy adding and trying yummy recipes to your cookbook.
Believe it or not, the holiday season is almost upon us. Since family cookbooks make a wonderful gift, it’s no wonder why that is by far our busiest time of the year.
Thank you for using our state-of-the-art system to help create your family heirloom cookbook. We have valued your business and hope to continue to help you with your family or group cookbook.
Tips for Making a Holiday Deadline
In order to make sure you receive your cookbooks in time for sharing with your friends and family for the holidays, here are some tips from Family Cookbook Project.
Use the Reminder Tool to email contributors to enter in their best recipes so they can look forward to cookbook for the holidays.
Set a deadline so everyone knows when their recipes must be submitted by – and make sure you leave a few days for those contributors that will want to add a recipe or two after the deadline!
You do not have to wait until your recipe collection is completed to start working with the Publishing Tool. Pick a cover from our professionally designed assortment or design your own. Select your layout type face and dividers – just remember to click the save button and the system will remember your selection.
Don’t wait until the last minute. While our digital printing allows for some of the fastest turn-a-round times in the industry, printing is done on a first come first served basis. We are expecting and are prepared for a lot of editors to have their cookbooks printed in October and November. You don’t want to be the last in line – so place your order early!
Right now is the perfect time to get everyone involved - and print your book for the holidays!
Time to Reorder?
Need extra cookbooks for holiday gift giving? If you were planning to print more copies of that fabulous cookbook you created, now is the time to place that order!
Coming Soon to Family Cookbook Project
We are really excited here at Family Cookbook Project. Our site continues to help families, schools and churches bring people together to create wonderful cookbooks to share and treasure for years to come. To date we have editors have created more than 8,000 cookbooks with more than 49,000 contributors and nearly 200,000 recipes!
In the next week or so, we will be adding a "Facebook" type of email alert to help you get contributors involved. When someone adds a recipe into the system, all your contributors will get an email with the new recipe title, contributor name and a link to login and add a recipe. It won't be overwhelming - just one email per login session. Each of your contributors can also turn off notifications if they like, too. You as editor can also just turn off the whole feature from 'Edit Your Cookbook'
Featured recipe from the database
The Great Family Cookbook Project has a huge amount of public recipes in the system thanks to you! If you need a fun recipe idea that's not in your own cookbook, go to our home page and use the search function to see what's available - lots of good eats!
Here is a recipe we tried recently for a fun dinner side dish:
This recipe for Cheesy Squash Casserole, by Jayne Chapman, is from The Chapman Family Cookbook. Search for more great recipes here from over 200,000 in our family cookbooks!
Cheesy Squash Casserole Recipe
Contributor: Jayne Chapman
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Category: Vegetables and Vegetarian Dishes
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Ingredients: 4 lbs. yellow squash sliced
1 medium onion diced
1 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. salt
2 cups cornflake crumbs
1/4 cup melted butter
1 (10 1/2 oz) can Cream of Mushroom soup
1 c. grated cheddar cheese
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Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cook squash and onion in lightly salted boiling water until soft (about 20 minutes on medium). Drain and mash. Add all other ingredients but cheese and mix well. Put mixture into round baking dish and top with cheese. Bake 20 minutes or until cheese is hot and bubbly.
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Number Of Servings: 6-8
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Editors Ideas - how to keep your contributors motivated
The holidays are coming. Remember, it may take a full 3 weeks to get your cookbooks at this time of year - so start today! When you do get together in the coming weeks, bring a printed recipe or two from your cookbook and hand them out. Let folks know that you plan to print the book soon - and get all their email addresses so you can add them to your book. Have fun!