My Family Favorite Recipes
Now, if you opened my pantry and tried to find a specific recipe, you might have to search for awhile. Of course I know where they all are, so that means nobody had better fool with the cookbooks, notebooks, and recipe files on that shelf or come supper time they might be waiting while I figure out where you moved the one I was looking for!
The cookbooks and notebook in the picture are the ones that contain most of our family favorite recipes, and many of the pages are marked with newspaper clippings of recipes or envelopes with recipes written on them. Some of those are a bit food spattered, obviously well used and well loved. And no, my collection of family favorite recipes is not for sale at any price!
Visit with me for the next few minutes as I share part of my collection with you and let you know where you can find some of our family's favorite recipes as well as new ones that will become your family's favorites.
Contents at a Glance
- This Pantry Shelf Holds My Family Favorite Recipes
- POLL: Where Do You Get Your Family Favorite Recipes?
- Church and Other Community Cookbooks, Tried and True Collections of Family Favorite Recipes
This Pantry Shelf Holds My Family Favorite Recipes
A place for everything and everything in its place. I can find every family favorite recipe right on this shelf!
Well, except for the ones that are in the basket on the counter next to the refrigerator. And in the row of cooking magazines behind it. And attached with magnets to the refrigerator. . .
I turn to the pantry shelf first, though, when I'm ready to fix one of our family's particularly favorite dishes for dinner or a special occasion. The Banana-Nut Cake that is just to die for is in the Betty Crocker cookbook. My husband and one of my sons often choose that recipe for their birthday cake. The stenographer's notebook on the pantry shelf is full of great recipes, some written down, many just stored inside. The Mexican Casserole that I fixed earlier this week (I substituted chicken for the ground beef and green enchilada sauce for the red this time) is on a copy shared by a friend in our Bible study group years ago. I've prepared that family favorite recipe dozens of times. The Hot Artichoke Dip recipe was also shared in that same group, from another friend.
My grandmother's Carolina Delight recipe is in the spiral-bound cookbook put together by the Columbus, Ohio, Women's Bowling Association in 1979. Several of my mother's recipes are in that book as well. My other grandmother's Chicken Nuggets recipe is written on a card and stuck inside that same cookbook. Not sure why I haven't filed it, but probably if I did, I might not be able to find it again so easily!
Cynthia's Chicken and Stuffing Casserole recipe as well as my friend Janice's Festive Crab Quiche are two favorite family recipes from our former church's "Chapel's Choice Cookbook." When we moved away many years ago I couldn't take my friends, but I still have their recipes.
Tonight I'm fixing Chicken Curry in a Hurry, which is actually from an old edition of The American Heart Association Cookbook
Clearly, family favorite recipes can come from family, friends, acquaintances, as well as perfect strangers. All it takes is trying a recipe then recognizing it as a "keeper." If you're looking for new family favorite recipes, read on for some great resources.
POLL: Where Do You Get Your Family Favorite Recipes?
I hope you have some special family recipes. Where did you find them?
Church and Other Community Cookbooks, Tried and True Collections of Family Favorite Recipes
Go treasure hunting for family favorite recipes and community cookbooks on eBay.
Here are a few that are on auction now. You can click on any picture or title to see the details with no obligation to buy. If you're looking for a cookbook from a particular church that you know, maybe where you went to church as a child, or for an organization, do the search from the eBay page. And if you find a wonderful treasure from your past, do drop us a note in the guestbook below to let us know!
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Collectible Betty Crocker Cookbooks Full of Family Favorite Recipes
Have many of your family favorite recipes came from Betty Crocker?
Many of mine have. In fact, the Betty Crocker cookbook is my go-to cookbook, the one I use when I'm looking for new family favorite recipes!
Betty Crocker cookbooks are very popular, collectible items. If you're looking for a particular edition, eBay is the best place to find them. Here are a few vintage Betty Crocker cookbooks on auction right now. Click on a picture or description, with no obligation to buy, to see the details and description or to search for what you're specifically looking for.
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This is one of my family's summertime favorites.
All-American Italian Pasta Salad16 ounces rotini pasta
8 ounces mozarella cheese chunk, cut into small cubes
4 ounce can sliced black olives, drained
2 small zucchini, cut into chunks
1 package pepperoni; cut slices in half if they're big
1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped red onion
2 medium tomatoes, cut into chunks
1 bottle of your favorite Italian-style dressing
Cook the pasta as package directs. Drain and rinse with cold water; drain well. Combine all the ingredients except dressing in a large bowl. Add about three-quarters of the bottle of dressing and stir well. Cover the bowl and chill for at least a couple of hours for flavors to blend. Before serving, add the remainder of the dressing and toss. (The pasta tends to absorb the dressing, so it's nice to save that last little bit for serving time.) Makes a nice, main dish pasta salad. Serve with garlic bread.
(Reprinted from Recipes for Real People)
A Beautiful Wooden Box to Store Your Family Favorite Recipes
Everyone needs a nice recipe box and this one is a winner.
in one section and file your 4X6 recipe cards
, then use the other section to drop in those clippings when you're in a hurry. Next time you need your family favorite recipe, it'll be easy to find!
Ironwood Gourmet Acacia Wood Secret Recipe Box
Amazon Price: $41.85 (as of 11/27/2009)
This gorgeous recipe box has very good customer reviews. People love it for its beauty, its size, and its function. This would look beautiful in anyone's kitchen and would make a great gift.
"The finest looking recipe box on the market. Perfect for 6"x4" recipe cards. The slot on the top of the lid will hold a recipe card while you prepare and cook tonight's feast. Made of beautiful Acacia wood that is an environmentally friendly hardwood that is grown on all continents. This pod bearing tree is known for its rich, dark colors, that range from gold to chocolate brown, as well as its beautiful, contrasting patterns."
Send a Family Favorite Recipe to a Friend
These pretty recipe cards are actually mailable postcards! Write your favorite recipe on the card and mail it to a friend. Isn't that a great idea?
Mailable Cherry Cupcake Recipe Cards by candystore
Browse more Cupcake Postcards
Looking for New Family Favorite Recipes?
These are some of the most popular family recipe cookbooks on the market today. Each has its own unique charm and "flavor."
Gooseberry Patch: Family Favorite Recipes: Over 200 Tried and True Recipes, Memories and Traditions from Gooseberry Patch Family & Friends
If you're a Gooseberry Patch fan, you'll love these real recipes from real people, presented in beautiful Gooseberry Patch style.
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 11/27/2009)
Biggest Loser Family Cookbook: Budget-Friendly Meals Your Whole Family Will Love
Read the reviews of this book. They're outstanding. This is good food that's good for you and your family. The recipes are easy to use and they're really good! If you need more healthy family favorite recipes, this would be my recommendation.
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 11/27/2009)
Paula Deen's The Deen Family Cookbook
Paula Deen presents "real food" along with real stories from her family, all in her unique, Southern, Paula Deen style. Just reading Paula Deen's recipes makes my mouth water. "With more than 140 recipes and dozens of beautiful color photographs, there's something here for everyone. So invite over all those aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends, and treat them to some home cooking, Deen family style."
Amazon Price: $15.21 (as of 11/27/2009)
Taste of Home: Busy Family Cookbook: 370 Recipes for Weeknight Dinners
If you're familiar with "Taste of Home" magazines, you know that these recipes are from real families, people with tastes just like yours. I love the recipes in "Taste of Home." This particular collection is for the busy family. That's all of us, isn't it? You're sure to find some new family favorite recipes in this cookbook!
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 11/27/2009)
Giada's Family Dinners
I included this book here not just because Giada De Laurentis is such a popular Food Network star but because of the book's outstanding customer reviews; it's hard to argue with 81 5-star ratings! Besides, every family likes Italian food, don't they? You're sure to find some great new family favorite recipes here!
Amazon Price: $21.45 (as of 11/27/2009)
Find More Family Favorite Recipes Online
From the Obamas to the Duggar Family of Northwest Arkansas, people are curious about what other families like to eat.
- Favorite Family Recipes from the Duggar Family
- You may have seen them on TV on the Discovery Health channel. We see them on the news since they live not too far from us. Seems that having 18 children is quite newsworthy! People seem to be fascinated with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their family, and people want their favorite family recipes! You'll find several on this page, including their laundry soap and fabric softener recipes as well as Jim Bob Duggar's favorite Tater Tot Casserole. I was surprised to see the recipe for Buckeyes, one of my son's family favorite recipes. Turns out Michelle is originally from Ohio.
- Obama Foodorama
- This is a blog about the Obama family and food. Want to know about what the White House is preparing from the family garden? Curious about the Obama's family favorite recipes? Check it out. (Lots of pictures, not necessarily of food, this page took awhile to load on my computer.)
- Michelle Obama's Shortbread Cookies Recipe
- From Parents' magazine, one of the Obama's family favorite recipes.
- Taste of Home Fast Family Favorite Recipes
- This is actually from allrecipes.com which includes an entire section of Taste of Home magazine recipes, always a sure-fire place to find new family favorite recipes.
- Recipes for Real People
- I know these recipes are true family favorites; this is my recipe blog!
A Favorite Family Recipe on a Magnet
Fill the front of the 'fridge with recipe magnets. Start with this one!
To put your own family favorite recipe on a magnet, click on this one then customize it on Zazzle. It's easy and fun!
Easy Hot Artichoke Dip Recipe on a Magnet by susan52z
Create personalized magnets at zazzle
What's Your Family's Favorite Recipe?
We'd love if you'd share, or just say hello!
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- BarbRad BarbRad Oct 22, 2009 @ 3:49 am
- I've gotten some of my best recipes from newspaper and magazine clippings and from my mom. The rest come from my friends, and from my vast collection of cookbooks .
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- spirituality spirituality Jul 12, 2009 @ 7:13 am
- That's a good idea: family recipes would be a very sad loss.
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- Pastiche Pastiche Jul 3, 2009 @ 9:11 am
- I have many cookbooks and saved recipes. I frequently turn to my tattered and beloved 1965 Betty Crocker cookbook, Joy of Cooking and Moosewood Cookbook for inspiration. Fantastic lens most worthy of its purple star - congrats!
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- mukunda22 mukunda22 Jun 29, 2009 @ 9:25 am
- I can't believe I actually have the Betty Crocker Cookbook, given to me
by my mom when she died. Honestly, I can't say I've paid much attention to it-- except for now!!
Congrats on your Purple Star!!
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- Joan4 Joan4 Jun 28, 2009 @ 11:30 am
- Congratulations on that beautiful purple star!! Lensrolling to family cookbook and blessed by a joyful angel!
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- KimGiancaterino KimGiancaterino Jun 27, 2009 @ 6:32 pm
- Fantastic job! Congrats on the purple star too. I just returned from the farmer's market and am making a pasta salad similar to the one you've shown here. Blessings to you.
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- sandyspider sandyspider Jun 23, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
- Nicely done! :)
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- BigGirlBlue BigGirlBlue Jun 22, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
- What a great idea. I honestly didn't think of it but it would be hard to start from scratch again.
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Jun 22, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
- You know Susan, my grandmother's recipes were written on paper and given to my sister that lives in Columbus, Ohio. It would be cool if those could be transferred into a family heirloom cookbook. Recently, I decided to purchase a couple of Hungarian cookbooks to figure out how to make veal paprikas. Cool lens my dear!
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- bdkz bdkz Jun 21, 2009 @ 1:40 pm
- Perfect prized possession!
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