Family Recipes

Value: Tradition My daughter asked me the other day for some recipes for her son – recipes that I used to make. Years ago, when I had teenagers, I took my recipes and carefully wrote my favorite ones - each on a half sheet of paper in my own handwriting and printed them out in pink paper. Then I bound each set together with a coil ring so that my daughters would have our favorite recipes to take with them babysitting, to a friends’ house, or off to college. It has been more than 20 years since I made up those little books and those pages have long since been lost, but I did type them into the computer and they are sealed in my memory.

Thinking about my daughter’s request, I went through my recipes on the computer and printed off the ones that would have been in that little notebook long ago. I have added a few more that have been special and I just glued them all into a little journal. Now, I have the nucleus of a book that I can make up for my grandchildren. Of the recipes I have collected, there are some from my in-laws and some from my daughter’s and son’s in-laws – a real family combination. This will be a fine tribute to our family. It is a collection of good food, special tastes, and valued memories. Value Tradition!