My Recipe to Stay Warm is Create a Traditional Family Soup Cookbook
With Winter Temps in the deep freezer: My Recipe for Warmth and Happiness is a Traditional Family Soup Cookbook
Personal stories are great to get people to read and use your cookbook but it is just as important to get your cookbook to be used and you can do it with themes. Since temperatures here in Minnesota where I write this blog have not been above freezing since Christmas Day an easy solution would be soups. That is a long time for the being cold! The one great dish that warms the heart and soul is a great soup dish. I last year had given my mother’s homemade chicken broth recipes (1/6/09 date of the that blog) It has been handed down in our family for several generations and leagues of people requested the recipe of my grandmother and hundreds have asked for my mother’s recipe. Not only does it cure the common cold but a great from dish for the working women to create since my mother was one. It was made most Thursday nights when my mother came home from work, served fresh each Friday night and then heated up each day with more vegetables made from left overs. Any family cookbook I would write would start with chicken soup but my mother also made lentil and split pea soup. Both were hearty soups with potato and pieces of sausages and served as a meal all by itself. It does not get any better than homemade soups. It might be a great cookbook to write for your own family.In fact, most of my monthly cooking magazines recent additions featured several soups that sound like they may make the cut for my family recipe soup cookbook.
Food Wine Feb 2010
Spinach and Egg Drop Soup
Chicken and Noodles in Spiced Broth
White Bean and Onion Confit from Chef Jerry Traunfeld at Seattle’s Poppy
Winter Vegetable Chili
Bon Appetit January 2010
Pablano Albondigas with Ancho Chile Soup
Lentil soup with Spicy Italian Sausage
Vegetable soup with Sriracha, Lemongrass and Tofu
Midwest Living January/February 2010
Sweet Potato Corn Chowder by Chef Paul Dagenback
Hearty Vegetable Soup by Marilyn Harris
If you are interested any of these recipes go to the publications website to read them.
When use Grandma's recipe you say this is Grandma’s Recipe. When you use Food and Wine’s recipe you say it was from Food and Wine Magazine and which month issue it was taken from. Always give due to the author of the recipe. You can always borrow a recipe and make it your own but be honest of where the original recipe comes from. If you are not going to sell your cookbook and just planning on handing it out to your kids, it is a good habit to get into. You never need to worry about plagiarism or being sued. I have been told that ingredients can be copyrighted but not instructions but why push the envelope just give credit to who created the recipe.
It can be very frustrating to be creative and have someone take and use your information without permission. Most often, if you ask to use something you will get permission. I speak from my own hurt since someone is blogging using a blog name so similar to mine it would get your head to spin. Copyright and infringement on intellectual property is a very serious crime.
Posted by Hella at 1/11/2010 2:42 PM 
Categories: Cookbook Writing, More than recipes, family recipe cookbook, Cooking Magazines, Create a Family Recipe Cookbook, Stories for your Memory Cookbook, You can change those recipes
Tags: family recpes cookbook themes create a cookbook working women recipes cookbook writing recipe writing cookbook family traditions cookbooks
Categories: Cookbook Writing, More than recipes, family recipe cookbook, Cooking Magazines, Create a Family Recipe Cookbook, Stories for your Memory Cookbook, You can change those recipes
Tags: family recpes cookbook themes create a cookbook working women recipes cookbook writing recipe writing cookbook family traditions cookbooks
Yesterday I received Martha Stewart Living and she does a bang up job on soups.Here is a woman after my mother's heart. She starts with the basic chicken soup and then adds from there: Columbian Chicken soup,Spicy Indian Chicken soup, Thai Chicken soup and the fest del reisonce is the Hearty Winter Vegetable soup, a soup I would be proud to serve. If you want any of these recipes you can go on line in a few days to capture them. I am not sure how long after they appear in the magazine they appear. FYI my Bon newsletter came (comes twice a month) and lots of good stuff there. ??? Maybe an electronic cookbook to all these great websites may make sense. Just wondering what you think!!!???
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I was asked off line about what the difference there was between Martha's recipe and my mother's recipe. There was very little except my mother swears using a pullet makes all the difference in the taste of the broth. And Martha did not cook her soup as long as my mother.I will try in Martha's way and let you know if I can tell the difference. AND lastly, NY Times this morning reported that chicken soup does help with the common cold. Another time my mother was right!
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