The first winner was Kelly. She is the sister of one of my college roommates. When I sent out the message saying 'Hey you are a winner!' I then asked, what kind of prize would you like me to make for you? She commented that she loved to cook and anything to do with cooking would be great. The first thing that came to mind was a recipe book/box.
I got a box and cute note cards at Michael's craft store. Then I got to work writing up all kinds of recipes. I wanted to have at least one for every category. Main dishes were easy, but beverages were a lot harder to come up with. I wrote some of my favorites from my blog, my foodnetwork.com recipe box, and from the 10,000,000 recipe books that I own. I left a few blank note cards in the box for her to write up some of her own favorites.
I made sure to note if I had made the recipe before. That way she could have a heads up how easy or good it is. I noted on a few that they were special family dishes. I also put at the bottom of each where or who I got the recipe from. And I also tried not to use too many abbreviations. No matter how tempted I was. I did use T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon and c = cup. Give me a break, the note cards were small. When I did run out of room, I wrote a big arrow on the bottom to continue to the back.
This is a great gift for a wedding, going away, housewarming, birthday or Christmas present. I actually like this better then just giving a generic cookbook. It does take some time to write them all up by hand. I'm sure there is a way to print them on a computer, but I like the personal touch of writing it by hand.
I actually received a recipe book with handwritten recipes from my coworkers at Anthropologie when I was moving to Virginia. It meant a lot to me that they would not only buy the book, but each contribute a few recipes to each section.
The next time you need a gift for that hard to buy for person. Consider this idea!
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