The other day, my mom sent my sister and me an email including a recipe one of us had asked for. It got me to thinking that it would be fun and useful to pull together a cookbook of all of our favorite recipes. It could be just recipes that my Mom has passed on to us (which includes recipes from my Dad’s side of the family. Or, it could be all those plus other favorite recipes in my household, which would include favorite recipes from cookbooks, friends and my sister. It could be relatively simply laid out in Word, or slightly more complicated in Publisher or even more so in Illustrator. It could be only text. Or I could add clip art or , better yet, personal art or my own photos of the dishes. I’d want to give it to my Mom, sister, nieces, and children.
Has anyone done something similar? I’m not interested in paying anyone else to lay it out, print or bind it. What different methods have folks used to print? Bind? Any recommendations for heavier weight paper?
