At the beginning of this year me and my friend Joyce headed up a neighborhood cookbook project. We gathered recipes for almost 3 months and for a couple of weeks in March we both spent hours entering the recipes into an online program with this company...
Our goal was to have it completed by March 31st so the books would be printed and shipped in time for Mother's Day. We collected 350 recipes and ordered 300 books!
Although time consuming, this was really fun and it gave me a chance to connect with some neighbors who I don't see as often as I'd like. I also have an entire new collection of recipes I can't wait to try!
Joyce is awesome! She's someone you definitely want on your team, whatever the team may be. She finished up the final details of the book since I left town March 26th for our Spring Break Temple Trip. We are still waiting for the books to be delivered so I will post a picture of me and Joyce with our finished cookbook next month!
We took our big kids to Nauvoo for Spring Break and on the way to and from we also went to the Dallas, St Louis, Kansas City, and Oklahoma City temples. When it was all said and done were baptized for over 227 people! We also visited the Carthage and Liberty Jails.
It was an incredible testimony building/strengthening trip for all of us. If you'd like to read about it you can go HERE. (I blogged about it March 31-April 4)
One of the restaurants in Nauvoo had all these cookbooks on display and here is one of my favorites...
Next month I am cleaning out and organizing my "office" which is really a closet.
6 comments:
Way to go Beck! Huge undertaking and it looks successful if your moving 300 copies. I kept 3 ward/neighborhood cookbooks when I recently cleaned house. They are the best with tried and trues. I want a Joyce on my team...
What a fun thing to do as a neighborhood! But you teased us with that nude cookbook. :)
Oh wow that looks like so much work! Way to get it done! I'm sure all your neighbors will treasure it for years to come.
There's a company that you can use to type up recipes for publication?! Brilliant! I'll keep that in mind if I'm ever a part of a cookbook collaboration! Does it cut down on typos? Seems like that's the biggest problem with recipe sharing. Way to go!
That is A LOT of work. Gonna have to find that "cooking a la nude" book. Have a feeling that its more to do with ingredients than really cooking in the nude...although I am sure our husbands would enjoy dinner more if we did cook in the nude! Ha...maybe after the kiddos are all gone!
Haha! Hey, I like the idea of cooking in the nude! What a great idea to do a neighborhood cookbook. I can see that as a way to bring neighbors together.
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