Cherished Family Favorite Recipes
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My Favorite Family 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.
This Pantry Shelf Holds My Family's 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?
Favorite Recipes on Note Cards
These make great gifts. Like mine? Try making your own.
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.
Collectible Betty Crocker Cookbooks Full of Family Favorite Recipes
Have many of your family favorite recipes came from Betty Crocker?
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.
Today's Featured Family Favorite Recipe
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: $24.16 (as of 02/18/2012)
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
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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."
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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Gloriousconfusion
Aug 6, 2011 @ 5:41 am | delete
- What a collection of recipe books! I keep thinking I ought to clear out my collection, and just use the internet, but somehow I am reluctant to do this - it's like clinging onto the past. Some of them I have kept for 50 years.
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Helenee
Aug 1, 2011 @ 5:54 am | delete
- Thanks for sharing online your delicious recipes. Your family must be very well-fed! xD
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clouda9
Apr 24, 2010 @ 9:55 pm | delete
- I love getting and also sharing family recipes. Just stocked up on a bunch this last visit to mom's house. Thank goodness she had a printer or my hand would be VERY sore ;) Love this lens Susan.
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BarbRad
Oct 22, 2009 @ 3:49 am | delete
- 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
Jul 12, 2009 @ 7:13 am | delete
- That's a good idea: family recipes would be a very sad loss.
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Pastiche
Jul 3, 2009 @ 9:11 am | delete
- 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
Jun 29, 2009 @ 9:25 am | delete
- 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
Jun 28, 2009 @ 11:30 am | delete
- Congratulations on that beautiful purple star!! Lensrolling to family cookbook and blessed by a joyful angel!
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KimGiancaterino Jun 27, 2009 @ 6:32 pm | delete
- 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
Jun 23, 2009 @ 5:20 pm | delete
- Nicely done! :)
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Susan52 loves Squidoo and loves to prepare her own family favorite recipes, especially when everyone's gathered under the same roof, which doesn't happen very often these days.
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Potluck Paradise
You know that the best potluck dishes come from old family recipes. Here's a collection to try.
Potluck Paradise: Favorite Fare from Church and Community Cookbooks
Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 02/18/2012)
Best Church Supper Recipes
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