You may have noticed that Heather is really into meal planning and finding solutions to getting dinner on the table before putting the baby to bed. I wish I had as much passion for the subject as she does. My obstacle: the picky palates of my husband and myself. When I page through the recipe books I own, I find myself eliminating almost everything because I don’t like mushrooms or he doesn’t like ground turkey or I don’t like sun-dried tomatoes or we don’t eat pork.
What I need? My own cookbook of my go-to recipies, so that when I do find a winner, I have it in one place where I can go to it again and again. And now, there’s Tastebook.com, offering me exactly that. Only instead of an index card box of hideously folded and stained print-outs from epicurious.com, it will be a beautiful spiral book with tabbed sections that I name myself, ie “Julian’s Faves” or “What my dad likes that is not more than thirty-minutes worth of cooking” instead of “Appetizers”. Oh, and you can share recipes with friends. (All you mushroom hating, semi-vegetarians, share with me!)
So I’m on a mission to fill up my Tastebook.
Coolness! Heather has arranged for us to giveaway two Tastebooks! Comment on this post before midnight on Halloween, and we’ll pick a winner at random on Thursday November 1!
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I would love to do this with my Mom’s recipes!
This is wonderful. I too have the same problem. We all have things we don’t like which can make it very difficult to cook. I would love this!!
great idea!
What a great idea! This certainly beats my current system of marking approved recipes in my cookbook collection with ripped bits of scrap paper and penciling in notes along the margins. I’d love to have my own book of nothing but the winners. It’d save me a lot of shelf space and hassle.
I so need one of these! I NEVER look in cookbooks because 90% of the time I don’t have one of the ingredients or someone doesn’t like it!
This is so cool! I love cooking!
Oh, how I LOVE this idea! I could really benefit from one of these because every time I need one of my go-to recipes I have to search the house up and down! I would like to give the people at Tastebook a big, fat high five! Thanks for the great find….And an awesome chance to win one! Keeping my fingers crossed tight…..
I’d LOVE to try this out!! Please randomly select me.
Wow what a great idea. I have about 100 print outs laying in my cookbook.
What an amazing idea! I would love to do this with my recipes. I make most everything from scratch, but storing all my recipes in my head has lead to disaster several times
. Thanks for the great giveaway!
What an awesome idea! I’ve been meaning to put my favorite recipes all in one place before the babies started coming and now I’m post baby #2 and they are still in a random pile.
LOL!
OOOOH, my kitchen will love you for letting me win this contest.
Right now all my “OOOH-This sounds good-so I’ll print it off the internet-Recipes” are on the kitchen counter or posted on the walls. I’d love to have an attractive place to store them!
This would make a great baby shower present! I’m going to search through this, a bunch.
How fortuitous. I’m creating a family cookbook, and I was going to use Blurb or Lulu. This looks interesting. Count me in for the contest, thanks!
This is brilliant! Maybe then I could finally clear out my stash of cookbooks… okay, probably not. But I still love the concept.
What a great idea! We currently keep a list of meals that everyone likes in gmail document, and then once we pick one, we have to go search for the recipe. Not exactly efficient. I would love this!
Sounds much more efficient than the system I’m using now!
Very cool! My wife and I would love to combine our family recipes, and this would be perfect!
how timely! I have been working on my own jerry-rigged and not as pretty version of this. But that, that is too beautiful!
Ok, I totally need this! I have so many cookbooks with just one or two pages marked! It would be great to get all my recipes together in my own “cookbook”!
What a great concept!
what a wonderful idea!
I want, I want. That is perfect and cute to boot!
this would be so much better than the printouts scattered about my kitchen.
I love cookbooks, but this one would be the best. All the recipes I actually use, instead of a book full of pretty pictures of food I never make.
I would love to put my grandmother’s recipes into this! Great Christmas present for my Mom! Creative give-away, thank you!
Interesting idea. I’ve done something similar with a binder, but it’s too easy to put things in it that I think I might want to try but never do. After a few months the binder if full of stuff that I’m not making so it’s useless. I think going to the trouble of making one of these books would really force you to pare the recipes down to what you actually make on a regular basis.
AHHHhh! I so need this!
ME! It sounds like something I would use, anything to mak emy life easier.
Right now I have two binders– one w “winner” recipes– and one with recipes to try (which is bulging at the seams; who knows if I’ll ever get to those). The winner one is a bit of a mess, though. Something a bit prettified like this would be a big help.
I also made an heirloom recipe book in a scrapbooking class earlier in the year. I love it and am quite proud of it– but it’s too fragile for the kitchen! Impractical, yes. But I think of it more as a scrapbook of cooking than a recipe book.
This would help get me organized.
I would love a Tastebook!
Wow! That is perfect for what I need for my recipes!
What a great idea… count me in.
I LOVE this idea, so cool! Thanks again for the giveaway…I need all the help I can get in the kitchen!
What a great idea. I have started one of my own- handwritten. Not so nice, and I actually have to copy things down with the inevitable mistakes.
I would love this! My recipes are an AWFUL MESS! What a great idea.
This is such a great idea. I’ve got my own basic version in a Word document, but this is so much cooler!
Please enter me in the drawing too. Thanks.
I love this idea…. have been playing with the site all day
I too am a mushroom hating semi-vegetarian! But the true question is how do you feel about eggplant?
what an awesome idea – i’d love one. i’ve started gathering ideas to make my own, but this makes it so easy!
My wife would love to have one of these to replace our hodgepodge of recipe storage. Looks like a cool idea.
What a neat idea! I’m still stuck in the recipe box rut…although I frequently take out those we turn our noses up at.
This would be such a fun Christmas present!
what a great idea! I have so many recipes, and I never have anywhere to put them!
Wow- there are other mushroom-hating, semi-vegetarians out there?
We’re HUGE fans of anything by vegan chef Robin Robertson. Her crowning glory is “The Meat and Potatoes Vegetarian Cookbook” (no meat, but some potatoes…). It’s got delicious recipes that don’t require mushrooms (and it offers vegetarian options though the recipes all seem to start vegan).
I never thought my favorite cookbook would be vegetarian, much less semi-vegan…
I was seriously just coming up with an idea to do this on my own. This would be much prettier. Love it!
this would be fantastic, and a great heirloom to pass down through the family!
What a great idea! I have a small 3-ring binder that my (younger) sister gave to me when I moved away for my Masters Degree. She wrote down all kinds of recipes for me (like how to make rice and how to make my grandmother’s etouffe).
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