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ooo!! I've been collecting recipes recently to make one of these!! I'd definitely make sure to add the recipe for Apple Crumb Pie that my mom passed on to me.

It's really a favorite in our family... especially among the men!
Please, pick me!!

wow that's classy. I'd include my grandmother's English toffee recipe and my dad's ever-evolving teriyaki chicken. And that one recipe about no-knead bread that my mother still hasn't tried!

I would include the recipe for super chocolate cake with double fudge frosting...my late grandmother's, though I will admit it tends to bring my mother to tears whenever I've attempted it because she misses her mom.

I've been wanting to do this for my grandmother since I first read about Tastebooks...her shoofly pie recipe is nearly an heirloom, it's so well-loved, and would absolutely be the first of her recipes I would preserve.

My mom's banana bread recipe would have to go in my collection!

my carrot cake recipe.

I would include my mom's recipe for Thai Steak. It is a family favorite that we all request as our birthday dinner.

My mother's seafood gumbo recipe

I would definitely add my mother's Lemon Cream pie and her Italian Plum Crisp. She's an awesome baker!

I would add my Mom's chocolate chip cookie recipe and my recipe for chicken enchilada's!

my garlic shrimp dish

I would love to showcase my grandmother's matzo ball soup recipe. Such rich broth! Such fluffy matzo balls!

oxtail soup, my dad makes the best.

my recipe for tomato and goat cheese tarts

My mom made a "mean" sausage and pepper sandwich. ;-) Thanks.

So pretty! I would include my mom's crunchy oven-baked chicken recipe, and my favorite brunch dish: lemon-ricotta pancakes!

I would include my Mom's Rhubarb Custard Pie, my Aunt Marion's Chicken Wild Rice Casserole, my Aunt Jo's Coconut Cake. There are so many more. For fun I would include the recipe for Ritz Cracker Appleless Apple Pie, my Mom made it once, we couldn't believe she gave it a try. Funny memory!

My grandmother's sicilian christmas cookies and easter pies (that's a good ten recipes right there!)...

I would put my mom's Christmas egg casserole recipe.

My great grandmother's Russian nut roll recipe!

Wow!!!

I'd include a variation of one of my favorite childhood comfort foods, arroz caldo--a chicken and rice porridge, similar to congee. I loved when my mom would make it for me, and it was one of the first recipes I called home for after I'd moved away. I made it with pearl barley to delicious results!

What a great Mother's Day gift! I'd definitely put in my great-grandmother's recipe for homemade chicken & dumplings and my mom's delicious red velvet cake and pumpkin roll recipes. (Hey, I'm from the South.)

cox au vin

My mom is famous for her Chicken Cacciatore - even though we are 100% not Italian. Also going in would be my Nana's hermit cookies, and Gram's Irish bread.

Our family fav is pork chops with white beans. One meal everyone will eat!

My grandmother's recipe for chicken paprikash! :)

My great-grandmother's chocolate cake. Apparently my grandmother made hundreds of chocolate cakes, trying to duplicate the taste that my grandfather remembered from childhood.

One year my grandmother was sorting through a bunch of family papers and found a handwritten recipe for chocolate cake, so she baked it without telling my grandfather where it came from. His took one bite and exclaimed with wide eyes, "This is it!"

It became the standard cake for birthdays when I was a kid, and this year my mom baked the cake and FedExed it across the country for my birthday. It was like my happy childhood had been delivered to my doorstep.

my mother's fresh zucchini soup. so delicious, healthy - perfect for spring!

Oh my goodness what a fantastic gift! I would definitely include the recipe for our chocolate cake, and seven minute icing from a cookbook so well used we have to peel the pages apart to get at the recipe. Four people, every birthday, every year... now I have to make it for my chocolate addict friend too.

my greek feta phyllo triangles

My Mother's recipe for Turtle bars.

Count me in!!! I've wanted to make one of these for a while! I would include my dad's blueberry buckly -it's fantastic!

I'd include my mom's bacon fried rice recipe, it's a classic in our family: http://www.columbusfoodie.com/2007/07/17/bacon-fried-rice/

Wow, awesome! Id include my aunt's homemade pasta and spaghetti sauce recipes - 100% italian!

I would include the spaghetti sauce recipe my Mom got (in the early 50s) from the little old Italian lady who lived downstairs.

Fabulous! I would include my Uncle Jimmy's BBQ marinade recipe.

This isn't really my family recipe, but rather my boyfriend's. I have his grandmother's recipe for chicken adobo. It is heavenly and very easy to make.

this is unbelievably gorgeous!!! i would fill it with my grandmother's, mother's and my recipes and give it to my mom for mothers day. what a wonderful idea! thanks for the link and the opportunity!

This would certainly look better on my counter than my binder of printed out recipes.

Without a doubt, my grandmother's mocha layer cake!

Pizzelles!

Apple crisp. With apples from Grandma's tree.

Great giveaway!
I would include recipes from my mom's recipe book, which was handing down in generations.

The old skool southern classic - potato chip chicken!

I'd include my Ciocia's old-world recipes. She passed away on my birthday a few years back at a 102 years old, and I miss her dearly. One thing I regret is not asking her for more of her recipes, as many were just in her head. I'd want to include (in a nice, legible form) the recipes so that we don't lose what little we do have of them.

my mom's roast beef... everyone in our family always wants that one!

Crab Spaghetti!

Definitely the recipe for Black Russian cake my mom makes. It's a hit everywhere I've taken it.

I would include my Spanish Chicken and Rice recipe.

My moms chocolate sour cream cake!

My mom's homemade bread and rolls, and my cheesecake recipe.

My mom's sour cream banana bread. Yum!

mmmm....I'd include my recipe for yummy red lentil soup. Or stuffed pepper soup! :)

My Mom's homemade noodles.

One recipe I would have to include is for my maple fudge. I get requests for more everytime I make it.

i would give the book my families recipie for christmas rum cake. Its one of those recipies that was witten in cursive on a paper a long time ago and now has to be translated by my mother from a very old looking yellowing peice of paper. baking is awesome.

I hate to brag but I make the BEST Sweet Potato Lasanga ever...That would have to go in there!

ragu ala bolognese

My family has been making a pumpkin bread since the 70's. We call it Harvest Loaf and it is a tradition in the fall.

My dad's pralines.

My dad's buttermilk waffles!

I would include my mom's recipe for spinach lasagna, and also mashed potatoes, and for blueberry cream cheese pie...I could go on & on!

My familys recipe for 'blind rabbit' -bacon wrapped around steak marinated in ketchup. Sounds gross, but its delicious.

I would definitely put in our family brownie recipe - it's been passed for 3 generations. I would also put in my sister-in-laws chicken enchilada recipe. It's out of this world!
Great giveaway! Thanks for offering!
~Tanya
the4moyers(at)msn(dot)com

I would put in my family's orange & tapioca salad and my mom's apple crisp.

First and foremost would be my mother's recipe for seafood casserole, which is the main dish at Christmas, and includes shrimp, artichoke hearts, and crabmeat. She developed it herself and, I'm sure, love to see it in print...

... right in front of her recipes for biscuits and creamed chipped beef.

It's all about the cookie dough brownies - that recipe has to be in there.

i would put in my father's recipe for sweet and sour meatballs, (except to use vegan meatballs, of course).

plus my mother's directions for roasting brussel sprouts

My mom makes the BEST Mediterranean tilapia that i would want to keep forever.

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My great grandmother's springerly cookies. It took my mom years to trying to make them from the one handwritten copy of the recipe before finally getting them right. Turns out my great grandmother liked to purposefully leave out or add an extra ingredient when she wrote them out, just so no one else could make them as good as her!

I would put my grandma's recipe for spaghetti Bolognese in there (with freshly made pasta) and my dad's gratin potato recipe, delicious!! Thanks for the giveaway!
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The best comfort food ever - cheese monkey (a cheesy bread & egg souffle, without the souffle hassle and with a little curry for flavor) would have to go in there. It's a family favorite.

i have a wonderful recipe for a vegetarian lasagna

My mother's delicious eggplant supper soup, made with lots of turkey meat, eggplant, tomatoes, and beef broth. You read my mind--I wanted to do something personal for my mother this time!

Oh, I would add my mom's famous mac-n-cheese and our green bean and artichoke casserole -- family favorites!

hmmm, vegan yorkshire pudding!

My mother's apple pie - yum, yum!

I'd love to win! I'd have to include my Nana's Shoo-Fly Pie recipe!

That is so cool! I would include my Mom's dressing that is a Thanksgiving Day must - even though my sister and I can't agree on whether to include the chicken livers. I love them but she doesn't.

What a great contest! I would love this and I would include my Mom's chicken salad recipe. It's been a family favorite for many, many years.

I'd love to include my mom's yogurt fruit dip- it's SO yummy!

bosnian pita

My contribution would be a hot and spicy dish. Let me know if you need one.

My dad makes a non-complicated potato salad that people are always intrigued by.

You know, reading the comments here, I'm wishing that we could collect the best of the Apartment Therapy Kitchen family recipes so that everyone can have new family favorites.

My mom's recipe for wonderful soft rolled frosted sugar cookies!

I would include my Nana's chocolate pistachio cake.

I would put my great-grandmother's frycake recipe in there. While my mother and I have made dozens of batches of chocolate chip cookies together, we stopped bothering with recipes a few years ago, so the frycakes are the major recipe we make together. And they're delish -- dense, moist rings of dough that you can just drop in a glass of milk and leave for a few minutes before munching on them.

my mother-in-laws pumpkin bread recipe. It is my son's favorite!

My mother's pie crust. No one else's comes close.

My grandmas bourbon cake. :)

my mom's spaghetti sauce and pork tenderloin with mango and cranberry chutney

nutty cutlets

I have a sweet/sour potato salad that would go very nicely in this book.

faux cheesecake

New family favorite, baked potato salad. Yum! This book would be great to pass down to the kids in the future. I agreed with sciencegeek, I would love to know some of these family recipes listed. Recipes with family history are always interesting to me.

Chocolate biscuits my dad use to make for me when I was little. He still will make it for me on special occasions and I'm 41 years old :)

I would include my recipe for Sardines with Roasted Cauliflower and Spaghetti. I love it because it's original and super tasty.

Hi, Our family has the most delicious, decadent dessert. My aunt many, many years ago, used to own and run a tavern when our town was tiny. The dessert is called khalua Chocolate Dessert! It makes a lot of serving and looks lovely when layered in a large glass bowl! Thanks,Cindi

Something my grandmother called a fruit cake. It was layers of tea cake with homemade applesauce between the layers. Much better than any regular fruit cake I have ever laid eyes on.

I have been putting together a family cookbook as a gift to my whole family so this contest couldn't come at a better time! A family recipe I couldn't leave out is the lefse recipe she brought over from Norway. It was a staple in my family growing up. She is turning 92 and I would be devistated if this recipe were ever lost.

What a great giveaway--thank you! If I won one of these, I would include my enchilada casserole for the crock pot, and all those recipes on my computer that I've been tweaking and refining, including my "lightened-up" version of Paula Deen's baked French toast.

My mother's spaghetti sauce recipe and her eclair cake recipe

stuffed peppers

good ole fashion chicken soup.

Russian chicken

my mom has been asking me for a long time now to put together cookbooks of the recipes i like for her and other friends and family, and i don't think she knows about tastebook, so this will be the best surprise for mother's day (i'm getting one even if i don't win it:). her recipe for soy sauce chicken, which she learned from her mom, would definitely go in.

grandma's patitsa

probably our amazing turkey soup, so yummy!

i'd put my mother's brisket in there

I would add my salsa and pasta sauce recipes, and our family's curry chicken salad and noodle chicken salad with sesame dressing.

I would put in my mom's dough balls she makes every year for christmas..yum
julie
3beez at bellsouth dot net

i hope i win

Dad's banana bread

I would definitely add my Mother-in-law's Chicken Tortilla Dip and the Peanut Butter Cookie recipe that won the Pillsbury Bake-Off.

Thanks!

I would add my 5 cup mfruit salad, one of my daughter's favorites.

my mom's carrot salad, or chicken tagine with preserved lemon and olives

I think I'd add my mom's recipe for Zucchini Bread-yummy!

My Memaw's mirliton dressing recipe, without a doubt. It is heaven in your mouth.

Noodle pie, is a great favorite here.

I'd have to include my family's overnight eggnog French toast that we have every Christmas morning.

i would include my famous flan!

how awesome! thank you! please enter me.

It would have to be Chocolate Eclair Cake for me. Thank you!

Banana Chocolate Bread Pudding

banana bread
THANK YOU GOD BLESS

we have worked on some lower fat and calorie versions of our favorite recipes!

I have an easy recipe for Peanutbutter Fudge that I would like to pass on

Grandma's cinnamon rolls can't be beat!!

I have a cherry butterrum cake that takes the cake over all others.

It would be my grandmother's homemade napollean that tastes better than anything in the store.

I'd include my mother's Rice-A-Roni Meatballs. I loved them as a child and now my husband loves them too. They are quick, inexpensive, and delicious.

I'd include one grandmother's chess pie recipe, one grandmother's lemon cake and fudge recipes, and a whole bunch of my mom's recipes.

Easter cookies my mother baked and now I do and my children bake them also.

My chicken chili and about 50 other favorites.

Steak Diane :-) My mom is named Diane so I always thought this recipe was particularly appropriate for her.

My dad's lobster bisque - out of this world!

Grandmother's Japanese fruitcake.

my stepmom's hot cross buns- they're delicious!

My moms Chicken Paprikash. YUMM!!

I have been wanting to put together a family cookbook for eons... This would be a great opportunity to get it done! Definitely my mom's "Nuts & Bolts" recipe would have to be included... it's my favorite Christmas treat!

overnight waffles. so fluffy!

Oohh... my mom has a bunch of recipes for meals, soups, and desserts that are also supposed to help heal specific ailments. It would be a great chance to get the recipes down so I can find out if any of them really work.

My garlic lasagna!!

yes please! i can't wait to get it!

Okay, reading all of these posts has made me hungry. I have tons of recipes I'd love to include - my sister's Sour Cream Enchilda Casserole, my Mom's Chocolate Pound Cake, my Spinach Artichoke Dip, my Father-in-Law's Chili...so many recipes so little time!

My Mom's potato salad, hands down theee best.

My father's stupendously delicious seafood gumbo recipe. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it :)

Amongst the many recipes I can think of, there would be an entry for the phone number to the local Chinese place. Sometimes Mom needs a break.

My husband's stuffed vegatables.

I definitely would include my grandma's potato casserole. She used to make it everytime she visited and now my mom makes it. It's perfect for cold days.

My recipe for Hommus--everyone asks for it and I would love to finally share in this book. THANKS :)

My mother's potato salad. She makes it like no one else, like putting things in it that other people don't. But it is really good.

I'd add several recipes: my grandmother's chicken & dumplings, vegetable soup, and shrimp & grits. I live in Salt Lake City now, but love to cook things from sweet home Alabama!

My grandmother's strudel recipe!

nice cookbook

my mom! I'm keeping this for myself. gotta include grandma's peanut butter bao

oh man, this would be awesome for my new apartment!

I'd include my grandmother's recipe for potato salad. It's the only kind I've ever had that I've liked.

I would include graham cracker ice cream and give this to my daughter to collect all our family recipes. If not for her, I would not be a mother, so no mother's day.

Oh yummy, I'd put in my vegetarian lasagne recipe and my grandmother's twice cooked cheesy rice bake. So tasty!

my ranger cookies, of course

grandma v's pie recipe.

I have so many to include, such as my grandfather's organge marmalade recipe. And his blackcurant puree recipe. And his chocolate ice cream recipe. Oh, and my mother's walnut bread. And my favorite chocolate cake made with graham cracker crumbs. So, yes, please pick me!!!

Mmmm...chocolate eclair cake.

a healthy mac n cheese

pick me! Mom's 70 and doesn't always follow the recipe, but she has two kids that will need this!

i would include my great-grandmother's recipe that has been in the family since before electricity... a recipe for kranz kuchen... :-)

The only thing my Mom could "assemble" - her Frito pie.

I've been looking for a way to create a family cookbook for years! This is perfect!

The recipes - cookies mostly. Sand tarts, toffee, spice bars....

anything to help me get organized!

There are too many -- my family's favorite pasta salad, my aunt's carrot cake, my father-in-law's pickles....

pick me!

my mom's spring rolls

I'd love to include my mom's brownies, lemon bars and stewed beef.

I'd include my grandmother's favorite pound cake recipe, which was the basis for my and many of my cousin's wedding cakes.

bread pudding. i can't give away too many secrets here, but its a winner.

my family's favorite recipe is simply called "the recipe" it is; bleu cheese and cream cheese and onions and pimentos for spreading on crackers, it appears at every family gathering sometimes adulterated but always good and we eat way too much of it. I would put this recipe first in the taste book.

i would definitely include my mom's famous frankfurter casserole, even though i'm a vegetarian. my family loves it!

Our family doboschtorte recipe. My mom learned how to make this by repeatedly watching my great-grandmother make it and taking notes (Nana didn't write any of her recipes down). So it would be lovely to give this labor of love back to my mom in a recipe book - perhaps with a doboschtorte to accompany it? :)

Ooh... I've been so tempted to put one of these together. I'd include shoyu pot roast; that's the family recipe I've been craving lately.

I would include my mom's divinity recipe. One time she photocopied it and sent it to me so I could have it.

I have a great and simple Chess Pie recipe.

Grandma's fudge sauce! I love to eat it by the spoonful when its cold. There is no better dessert than vanilla icecream and fudge sauce (and if you add a chocolate chip cookie...)..mmm

I have stuffed meatballs, sausage stuffing (for the Thanksgiving turkey), ginger-creme cookies, and the list goes on... I would love this!

my mothers poker playing friend had this delicious side dish that all my friends loved.its onion fritters.
3 bunches of green onion
2 eggs
3tbs flour
splash of milk
oil for frying
salt
pepper

cut the green onions into 1/4 inch pieces.place them in large mixing bowl with eggs,flour,milk.mix w/fork.batter will be a little thicker than pancake batter.heat oil til its hot enough to fry fritters.pour a tablespoon amount into hot oil.brown on both sides and place on paper towel.salt and pepper.(my daughter likes using lemon pepper)

My Mother in Laws Enchilada's and my Mother's Mexican Meatloaf

I have so many this would be great!

This is the coolest idea. A customizable cookbook would be great. I have a nice selection of my own recipes I'd include.

love that you can add epicurious recipes to it...

mine would have to have my super-duper I can't believe it's not chicken matzah ball soup recipe in it.

I would love to have this. My mom died of cancer when I was 17. My sister has her recipes and has copied alot of them for me. It would be wonderful to have a place for all of them. I love to cook but it never tastes like mom's!

I miss her chickern & rice, her popovers, and her homemade german chocolate cake.

What a great cookbook. I would definately add our family favorite orange splash french toast. Oh and also stuffed bell peppers, mmm I am getting hungry. Thanks

my mother's Sunday Lithuanian chicken!

i would have to say chicken & sausage jambalaya

Ohh I hope I win!

I would include my great-grandma's famous chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. YUMMY!

That's easy. It would definitely be my grandmother's recipe for cinnamon rolls. They were gooey and sticky and wonderful. They didn't even need icing. She would keep them in a big plastic baggie, and we'd always take out a couple each morning and stick them in the microwave. I still haven't been able to get them right even though I've come up with some pretty tasty attempts. She used a liquid filling, and I have not been able to roll them up without a bunch of filling running out.

I would put in my Mom's recipe (from my grandmother) for Iced Anise Cookies.

Potato Candy. My grandma used to make, Mom made it and now I make it ever Christmas.

I would include our family recipe for Paella

Easy Cheesy Bean Dip

I'd include my mother's recipe for dutch babies. Yay oversized pancakes!

I'd include my ricotta pumpkin pancake recipe, and our traditional roasted chicken recipe. Hmm...and the hummus recipe. And, well, yeah.

my ginger soy dipping sauce

Turtle Brownies

I have piles of recipes ready for this. My banana bread, upside-down strawberry pie or no bakes.

My Mothers Chicken & Mushroom slow cooker recipe. It's the best.

My mums Beer stew

I'd add my boyfriends recipe for Sunkokker. It's a Norwegian Almond Butter Cookie....they are out of this world!

My moms home made blue cheese dressing!

I have one all set up to go--complete with recipes for apple custard pie, corn fritters, tomato ricotta tarts, and a lot lot more.

We are creating a cookbook as a wedding present and a Tastebook would be the perfect form for it.

great

Choose me! I'm a mother!

Granny's barbecued ribs!

I'd include my grandmother's potato salad and chili recipes. I just love those simple classics done well!

I would put in my mom's Parkerhouse Rolls recipe. Thanks!

I would definitely have to include my late mother's apple walnut cake recipe. This is a lovely giveaway.

My mother-in-law's Arroz con Grandules recipe!

I would definitely add our family's recipe for lefse, a Norweigan flatbread that we make every Christmas.

I would include my Mom's apple spice cake.