![]() Clearly, we both had our own favorites from each households recipe repertoire. But we ran into some difficulty in agreeing with each others choices, with him having tasted my moms cooking and I having tasted his mothers as well. Since there were just too many recipes, we decided to pick out our favorites among the bunch. Its a process that, I wont lie, resulted in some minor disagreements between me and the hubby none of which, thankfully, got too heated. Step 2: Curate the collection, and type up the chosen ones. Having just a little over a month to complete both projects, it was definitely an ambitious undertaking. It was then that I came up with the perfect birthday gift: a personalized cookbook filled with my moms and mother-in-law’s own beloved recipes. The idea dawned on me while I was flipping through one of our customized photo books filled with family pictures. Some of them had faded over time, while others were so fragile that they probably wouldnt have survived much longer if I didnt do something about it. Through the years, my mom acquired quite a few clippings. All these clippings and notes were tucked into a little box, while her favorites were given a special place on the cork board in our kitchen. It was a time when finding easy dinner recipes wasnt as easy as going online and visiting your favorite food blogs, so every recipe was either handwritten or clipped out of some random recipe resource. While racking my brain, I remembered how, when I was growing up, my mom liked to clip recipes out of soup can labels, magazines, and pretty much anywhere she could find new recipes to try. ![]() What would make one decide to make your own recipe book? Having debated with my husband for the umpteenth time about whether to give a store-bought cake or a bouquet of flowers as gifts to both my mom and mother-in-law for their birthdays (we sent them flowers and a card last year) a few months ago, it dawned on me that I had been putting so little effort into my gifts year in and year out or so this year, I had to come up with more meaningful gift ideas for my mom and mother-in-law who love cooking.
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