One Cookbook Done!

I finished the first cookbook. At least I hope so, because I had to include a section called "Oops, These almost got left out!" Some of the last recipes added were from Younger daughter, who makes killer pudding shots, Jell-O shots and chocolate chip cookies.



Jello-Shots - with tips!




My family loves this recipe.



I use this on Hershey's Collector's Cocoa Cake. Yum.



My mom used to make this. There aren't many non-chocolate
cakes that I like. This is one of them.




This is as close to my mom's cheesecake recipe
as I've been able to find.




Andrea's infamous chocolate chip cookies. They are so
good and they are made with Hershey's chocolate chips.



For this page, I used my Martha Stewart
arch lattice punch. I like with and without
the edging. Just something to dress it up!

The front cover of Andrea's cookbook.

Forgive my photography - it's hard to take pictures of the pages so the light doesn't reflect off them or to take pictures without a flash or additional lite. Clicking on them just might bring up a larger image.

Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational

The Cookbook

I've been working on a cookbook for each of my daughters, which involved first printing out all the recipes and then compiling them into a scrapbook. It's been interesting, because it is giving me a chance to review all these recipes and it has gotten me interested in cooking some more. This all came about at Christmas when younger daughter, while chowing down on some of her favorite foods, asked to go through my recipes.

I'm using acid free "magnetic" pages. I turned off the flash in some of the pictures, but unfortunately, I'm also shadowing the pages. Anyway, below are some of the ones I've worked on. I'm also looking for some food related embellishments. I have some cooking ones, now I need some food ones.

And if there is a trick to getting the page cover to lay flat afterwards, I sure would like to know what it is because it is giving me fits on some pages.

My Cricut (George) is getting a work-out along with my Sure-Cuts-A-Lot software. I think I've forgotten how to work the Cricut without the software!

I will mention here, in case people wonder why I chose the magnetic albums. It would have been easier to use the acid-free sheet protectors, for sure, but this way, nothing is coming out of these albums and spills can be wiped up easily.

Most of the papers came from Hobby Lobby and are acid-free, lignin-free and come in lots of coordinating colors.



I'd like to say that you can click on the pictures and see larger images, but blogger just doesn't always seem to cooperate.


Copyright 2010, ACK, for Generational