You can almost smell and taste it...your mother's cooking. Recipe scrapbooks preserve your cherished food memories. Why do we even talk about "comfort food?" Isn't it because early on in our lives these foods took on more meaning than just something we chewed on? Keeping these memories alive is what recipe scrapbooking accomplishes!
I even have a picture of a dish dad made - because he also did some fine cooking when I was growing up.
Growing up, eating great food around the table was always central to our family life. My mother was a wonderful southern cook and made great fried chicken, coleslaw and her famous Joan's pound cake! Because I wanted to remember those special moments and her delicious recipes, I digitally created a "mom's good cooking" photo book. In the album, I have not only her scanned in handwritten recipes, but photos of mom and her tasty dishes. I even have a picture of a dish dad made - because he also did some fine cooking when I was growing up. In the back of the book, my brother recounted memories of growing up eating mom's good cooking. I made a copy of the album for my brother as well as a copy for myself. That's the beauty of digital scrapbooking!
Like with many other scrapbooking themes, recipe scrapbooks offer you two different creation choices: traditional or digitally created scrapbooks. Either one gifts you with the same effect. So it comes down to questions such as...
Whichever way you choose to do your recipe photo story book, follow these and perhaps other steps you may include:
Now go eat one of your favorite foods! Mmm...