Posts Tagged ‘recipe book’
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Growing up Satchmo
I can now say that I am an author of a cookbook that has been printed and bound.
It was hard keeping my mouth shut about it on the blog, but I managed to stay quiet.
Maybe my printing press is smaller than Caitlin’s or Mama Peas’, and maybe I had to pay to get mine printed. But it was fun to make and it made a good Christmas present
Ok, so here’s what actually happened – I designed and printed a “St. Germain family” recipe book to give to my side of the family for Christmas. It’s a collection of recipes and pictures of my family’s recipes and pictures of us kids.
That’s my dad.
The title of the book is a reference to the St. Germain nickname, “Satchmo.” I’m not sure where it came from.
Beneath the dedication, I included a quote from Charles Pierre Monsele: “Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table.”
My dad was a food blogger in his day. He captured a picture of almost every major occasion family meal. He teaches dentistry and likes to put pictures of food (and us kids) in the slides he shows his students. I never had such a cool teacher at law school! Anyway, I got some of those pictures and scanned them and added them to the book. I used www.shutterfly.com to make the book.
I liked shutterfly.com’s site, but it definitely could be improved in many ways. (One example is that the Table of Contents was completely manual. I think it could be automated pretty easily.) Still, I consider myself to be pretty well oriented with the site so if anyone has questions let me know!
I started the process of gathering photos and recipes in July for this Christmas present. This year we did Christmas early on Thanksgiving so it took me 4 months of work to make the book. I had my mom help me compile recipes and edit the book. Thanks, Mom!
This is my favorite part of the book. I yanked the top photo of my brother from his Facebook account. The photo below is my dad posing the exact same way with a lobster claw about 20 years earlier.
Here is the back of the book:
Four by Four
Maria at Oh Healthy Day tagged me in a survey of four things about myself.
Four TV Shows I Watch
1. Big Love
2. Jerseylicious
3. Everything on Cook TV
4. The Daily Show
Four Words/Phrases I Use Too Much
1. I know I would! (Harry Caray)
2. TWSS
3. I’m cold
4. I have to pee
Four Things I’ve Learned From the Past
1. The cookie sounds better than it tastes.
2. Be careful when hitting Reply All or Reply
3. 99% of political debates are not worth having
4. Being kind is always worth it
Four Things I’m Looking Forward To
1. Spring
2. Skiing in Colorado this year – in March!
3. Friday
4. I don’t know…
Four Things I Love About Winter
1. Wearing a scarf all the time
2. My heated blanket
3. The holidays and seeing my family
4. The first snow
Four Newest Blogs Added to my Reader
Four Bloggers I’m Passing This Along To
1. Betsy at Straight Up With Olives
2. Katie at Legally Fit
3. Kim at A Photo A Day
4. Jasmine at Eat Move Write
About Me
My name is Michelle and I like to write about running, food, and fitness in general. Check out my About Michelle section for more!
