The loss of a mother or grandmother is a difficult time for most people. The love and nurturing they provide is something that we will never forget is always to be cherished.

One way to memorialize a loved one who has passed, especially someone who was responsible for cooking for the family, is to create a family cookbook in their honor.

Often collection of recipes in the form of a recipe box, magazine and newspaper clippings, or cookbooks with pages marked is a great place to start creating a cookbook in someone’s honor.

Another way to gather recipes is to reach out to families and friends and ask for which foods that person was known for. Getting others to share recipes and memories adds a lot to the process and to the final product.

When entering recipes into the system, remember to write personal notes about why this recipe reminds you of the person you were honoring. It could be memories of when they’ve made that recipe or serve that recipe or just examples of food that they loved.

Including lots of photos is also a great way to make your special cookbook a tribute to the one you love.

Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

Everybody knows that recipes help us make the dishes that we want to eat, however they can be so much more than just that.

Behind every recipe you love is a story to be told.

People love to learn more about a recipe before making it. How the recipe came to be, what things can be changed in it and why it is important in your life.

At FamilyCookbookProject.com our recipe form includes a space for personal notes. These notes allow you to tell your recipe story to others who you’ll share it with.

Here are some ideas of what you can put in the personal notes of a recipe:

• How are you first came across the recipe period
• When you first served the dish.
• Ingredients that can be switched out to make it healthier without affecting the overall result.
• Memories of other people serving this recipe before you.
• Side dishes or other food that accompanies it well.

So next time you enter a new recipe into FamilyCookbookProject.com, remember to share its story.

Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

Okay, the important question of the month: “When is the deadline to ensure Christmas delivery of My Family’s Favorite Recipes?”

Answer: Thursday, November 30th! There will be an extended deadline, but upgraded shipping will probably be required.

Since personal family cookbooks make a great Christmas gift for both friends and family members, a great many people are working hard to get their cookbooks completed and ordered. That means the sooner your done and have placed your order, the sooner you will receive them!

Since 2004, Family Cookbook Project has been helping people just like you create customized cookbooks and preserve your family recipes for future generations.

We get many of our new cookbook editors from referrals from current cookbook editors and this is where you come in.

Help us continue to spread the word about Family Cookbook Project by telling friends and family who might want to start their own cookbooks about us and. Have them go to FamilyCookbookProject.com and try a free personal version of the software. If they like it, they can upgrade to the full version.

By continuing to grow, we can continue to offer an improved experience to all of our customers, including new cover options, easier navigation, and new design layouts.

It is our hope that you love our software so much, that you will help us spread the word.

Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

Have you ever had a cake recipe that really needed a specific frosting? Or a meat recipe that required a special sauce? Wouldn’t it be great if a a recipe could have sub recipes attached to keep them together?

Many of our editors have asked for the ability to have multiple sections or steps in recipes. We like to listen and have added it! Now you can have up to 5 “sub” recipes or steps within a recipe, each with its own set of ingredients and directions. Example? You have Carrot Cake and you want a section for the “Cake” with its ingredients and directions, then “Cream Cheese Frosting” with another set of ingredients and directions.

To use this feature, simply go to Add Recipe or Edit an existing recipe. First check the box for “Show subtitle and make a multi-part recipe” right under the contributor field. This will add a field for sub-recipe title.

Using our example above, here is where you would add your carrot cake ingredients and directions.

Next, click on the green button to “Add new sub recipe”. This will add fields for a second set of sub recipe title, ingredients and directions for your Cream Cheese Frosting.

You can add up to five sub recipes for your overall recipe.

When you are done, make sure to click on the green button on the bottom of the page to save your recipe before moving on to your next recipe.

Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

If you are a parent with children in elementary schools you understand that schools today are always looking four ways to raise money. Whether it is a PTA or PTO group or a specific need such as a sports team or field trip, we need to raise money is always there.

How about suggesting a fundraising cookbook!

Family Cookbook Project has a specific site set up for school fundraisers called cookbookfundraiser.com. Just like Family Cookbook Project.com, the editor creates an account and invites people to contribute recipes. However the cookbookfundraiser.com software is set up to or allow larger groups to contribute and turn it into a fun activity.

We also offer many school and kid related covers or you can create a custom cover for your school fundraising cookbook.

Creating a school fundraising cookbook can be accomplished in just a few simple steps:

• Create a committee to work with you.
• Send out flyers with instructions on how to enter recipes into the system. Will even provide you the text for this communication.
• Get together with your committee and choose one of the school and kid related covers or design your own. Pick a recipe layout and write an introduction.
• Sell advertising in your cookbook. We provide a complete section on how to successfully sell advertising to the local community. This activity can raise enough money to pay for the entire printing of your cookbook! Will even buy your first half page ad! See our website for details.

Pre-sell your cookbook to all the people who submitted recipes and to other members of the community. This way you’ll know how many cookbooks to order, but remember to order some additional copies for people who learn about it too late.

Place your order and in a few weeks your cookbooks will arrive.

To learn more about how to create a successful school fundraising cookbook, click here to get step-by-step instructions on our website.

Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!