Beginnings

I know it is only 4 days since Christmas of 2011, but I have just decided on what my Christmas gift to the family will be for 2012. While making Christmas cookies this last week I found myself needing to email my aunt for a recipe. This lead to my brilliant idea, we needed a family cookbook for all our favorite recipes! I was excited by the idea and glad I would have a year to get it done, seeing as how I would have to get everyone to give me a list of recipes they would want to see in the book and then to track down those recipes. The one thing I was a little bummed about was the cookbook wouldn't be a surprise, everyone would be expecting it. When I started looking up how exactly I was going to produce the cookbook I learned it was going to be pricey to do it the way I wanted. I want color photos of the food and maybe of it being prepared, because those are my favorite cookbooks. Then I had an awesome idea to spend the next year making and photographing the food for a blog! This blog will be the surprise ingredient for my gift (this is of course if I can keep my mouth shut for a year and the family doesn't stumble upon this site)!