Treasury of My Family Recipes

Here is the cover I designed of my own work! I am quite impressed with my drawing skills for this picture, and is in fact some of my best work if I say so myself. Also, in a separate blog called "PDF of Cookbook" I will post in there, so everyone can have access to my cookbook if they would like to have a copy or just look! It will probably take me this weekend to have it in there, so give me a little time to work on that! This is the last week of blogging and completing our Genius Hour Projects! It's time for my classmates and I to start wrapping up our projects and preparing our final presentation at Take Route Cafe on Tuesday, May 1 at 6 p.m. My cookbook has ended up to be 84 pages in length, with over 150 recipes gathered from what meals that have been used in feeding my family. There is a wide variety of recipes ranging in cookies, cakes, frostings, main dishes, soups, and much more! One of the main goals of my cookbook was to try to make sure the recipes ...

I can’t believe how close I am to finishing! This project seems to be going at a high speed, racing to the finish line. These last six weeks or so have literally just flown by and in that time, and I have accomplished a lot. I gathered all my recipes, developed a system to organize all of the recipes, and furiously typed away on my laptop.   I’m not for sure exactly how many recipes I have ended up with, but my cookbook’s length is 84 pages long! On those pages I have more than just one recipe on them too, so that’s a decent amount and a good variety of recipes that I can share with others.  As I look back, editing the recipes I have caught many mistakes. I imagine it’s from the late nights and long hours being spent and just wanting to come to the end! I am going to also have my Mother proofread through them to check my recipes and make sure I didn’t accidentally goof up! 😁 At the end of this week or beginning or next week, I will have my whole cookbook printe...

I have finally gotten all of the recipes typed up! That was such a wonderful feeling to have them all nicely typed in the different categories where I wanted them to be. I was able to actually finish ahead of my tentative schedule, which is perfectly fine because that will allow me more time to edit and revise parts of my cookbook. Honestly, I had not run into a lot of problems in making my cookbook, mainly the issue of font size as well as space issues. It was tedious to type up the recipes, but I knew in the end it would be well worth all the time I had spent typing away on my keyboard. I’m actually quite pleased with how it’s starting to look and am excited for when I can actually put it in book form! Last week I had talked about being picky about what foods one puts in their bodies in choosing the quality of their foods. The food is the most important part of preparing a meal because one wants it to taste good and provided the much-needed fuel for our bodies. Although the foo...

My project is coming along great! I am beginning to catch back up and am back on track with my tentative schedule. I just had to buckle down more, stray away from the books I love to read as well as the T.V. and use my time much more wisely. While typing up the recipes I thought a lot about the recipes and what foods or ingredients as I should say, that are used to make these meals. As I have talked about in my proposal and previous blogs, it’s important to see what foods one is putting in their body. So, it all comes down to the food. How was it handled before it got to your plate? Was a bunch of pesticides or chemicals used to keep the bugs away? What preservatives were added to make it keep longer without spoiling? These are all good questions when it comes to controlling what is being put in your body by the meals one is consuming. A great way to control this is to grow one’s own food if they have the space or materials. I am raised in a farming family, so we have our own...

Genius Hour Proposal Problem In the United States a shift has been more towards eating out than cooking at home which has been leading to more health problems. Much of the time people are eating out due to how convenient it is, there is not hassle of preparing the food or the clean up afterwards. Eating out can lead to food choices that don’t include the necessary nutritional value one needs.             “Only 15 percent of adults say they learned to cook in classes or in school,” said Julia Wolfson author of a School of Public Health study. There has been a decline in Home Economic classes in schools and because of this there is more of a demand in teaching teens how to cook or even sew. There has been a loss of learning in how to cook or perform other skills essential for daily life. Proposed Solution I propose to make a cookbook and give access to it for others to use free. Cookbooks can be pricey if one buys them bra...

I completely scrapped my cover design of my cookbook! I was worried about copyright problems and I did not like that I was trying to take the quick route by just taking a picture off the internet to just get my cookbook started. The picture was nice and farm style like, but it was not my work. It all just kept weighing on my mind and then I thought I may as well change it! I was back to square one on trying to figure out the look of my cookbook. I went back to other cookbooks I have laying around my house to try to find some inspiration. I liked the ideas of having pictures of kitchen utensils, equipment, and storage bins as well as rows of shelves containing all of the ingredients. On some cookbooks I also saw images of women on the cover preparing meals wearing their aprons to keep their clothing clean. I liked the idea of having a drawing of a lady on the front of my cookbook, especially because this cookbook is being dedicated to some very hardworking and special women in my ...