You love to cook.
Your mind constantly goes to new recipes, and you get excited by fresh blueberries and apple season. You dream in flavors of balsamic vinegar and roasted chicken. Have you thought about designing your own cookbook?
Maybe you have and the thought overwhelms you, and all you can see now are unopened boxes of hundreds of unsold cookbooks filling your garage.
But what about an electronic cookbook?
Blogs
One great way to create and share a cookbook is through a blog.
As the following article looks at, if you’re wondering how to make your own cookbook, think outside the traditional pages and go electronic.
Whether you use a WordPress site or something like SquareSpace, you can create a beautiful blog that will electronically preserve and share some of your favorite recipes.
What is great about blogging your way through a recipe is not only family members can share these recipes, but your friends, and well, any followers who may come along, can also read your work.
With creative blogging, you can present recipes in beautiful format with photos to enhance them.
You can present the recipes in a way special to you complete with commentary and photos, whether it’s your family taking part in making the food or shots of a farmer’s market as you hand select the ingredients.
A blog allows you to tell a story with the recipe and make it personal. It’s much more than a notecard or a quickly scratched down version of your recipe.
Social Media
Another way to share recipes is through social media pages.
Whether it’s a Pinterest board or a Facebook group, you can invite your family and friends to add, request and comment on beloved recipes.
It keeps all the recipes in one place, and though it may not be a traditional cookbook, it will be fun to have comments from all the family and your friends along with their personal input.
Sharing Recipes
Sharing recipes is a timeless art.
We all have handwritten notecards in our kitchen from grandmas and moms; some have them from generations further removed.
To compile recipes into one spot and one volume, hardbound or electric, is a wonderful keepsake. You can serve that pound cake on anniversaries or make the spaghetti casserole when your child comes home from college.
When children grow up and venture out on their own, they’ll love having all the recipes in one spot. It’s a beautiful way to preserve memories and tradition, and carry them on.
Sharing and preserving recipes is part of the art of culinary.
We make food to share, why not share the recipes?
By publishing your recipes, you never know where you may go; it may turn into something much bigger than a place your cousin can see how you make your famous frosting.
After all, The Pioneer Woman started with a blog!
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