Looking for a great and personal holiday gift for that family member who has everything? Well, I've found some delectable sites that can help you with your holiday conundrum. Why not take those old family recipes that you've collected over the years and make a family cookbook? And the great thing about this idea is that you can make it once and give it to several or many family members for the holidays. Hello!?! Did I just help you out, or what? Now, there are quite a few online family cookbook websites that seem a little 'involved' in that they charge monthly membership fees and their printing process seems to take forever. However, I found 2 cookbook websites that would be helpful at this late date.
- Tastebook.com ~ Starting at $19.95 for 25 recipes, Tastebook.com offers customized cookbooks with photos and a binder. With this kind of flexibility, you can add more recipes later if you want to. You make the cookbook online on their website and then place your order. And right now for the holidays, they're offering FREE shipping on orders of $50 or more as long as you order by December 16, 2011. Also, this site has an iPhone app because they offer more than just printing cookbooks. They're a recipe site too. So go check them out, and also take a look at some of Tastebook.com's videos.
- CookbookPeople.com ~ The Cookbook People's site offers 3 different ways to show-off your family recipes: making a cookbook using their cookbook software [And they've named their software Matilda. I like that. ;) ]; using a binder from their beautiful collection to showcase your family recipes that you've already gathered; using recipe boxes to house your sacred family recipes. [Talk about meeting you where you are, huh?] Their software comes with 27 templates, contains family tree customization features, and they claim, "Matilda works great for grannies and gurus." It costs $29.99 and you can print out your recipes on your own computer as many times as you want or save as a PDF and take it to your local printer. They offer free shipping on orders of $65 or more. Take a look at their short video below, check out their website, and also check out the CookbookPeople's YouTube Channel.
Take a look at a short video from CookbookPeople.com:
~Caroline
