Having received a couple of requests for the family recipe book or individual recipes therefrom, I am in the process of cleaning it up, incorporating marginal notes into the text, and putting it in a little more natural order. I will also include something like the following as a Introduction to the book.
Initially, this book was designed as both a recipe book and meal planner. Carolyn had gone back to school to work on her Master's degree and the rest of us had to pitch in and share her previous chores. I am totally non-creative when it comes to planning a menu. Having worked as a hospital manager I was familiar with dietitians' meal planning and felt we could adopt some of the basic principles. We wanted to spread out main entrees so that we didn't have hamburgers every night one week and then no hamburgers for 3 months. For the cookbook to serve this dual purpose meant that some recipes read like "Pizza - order out". We also wanted some flexibility so that even if pizza was on the top of the list but we really wanted spaghetti we could make the substitution without messing up the system. All the kids were expected to participate in the cooking so we tried to have simple recipes for me and more complex ones for the kids. We also decided that every dish should have a recipe even if extremely or obvious like "follow instructions on the package."
Have I missed anything, kids?
I want a copy! :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't realise that it was also meant to be a meal planner. Were we supposed to do one recipe after another? And I still get a kick out of the recipe for pizza.
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