What's For Dinner? Serve Up Family Memories With Your Own Unique Family Recipe Book

My mother was a great cook. Nearly 19 years after she passed away, I still have fond memories of the special dishes she would whip up for our family. Some were simple, others elaborate, all treasured.

Like many people, my mother wrote down her recipes on index cards. Unfortunately, I lost them in the 1994 Northridge earthquake in L.A. There is no way to recover them; they are lost forever.

If she had been able to turned her recipes into a book with the Great Family Cookbook Project, I would still be able to access those flavorful memories online.

Save your recipes for those you love with this easy, fun and affordable way to create and print your own full-color family cookbook.

It's a beautiful way to preserve mealtime traditions for future generations. Share it with family and friends. You could even turn this into a project for your church or organization by inviting other people to contribute recipes!

Once the recipes are preserved online, they can be shared with other family members by email, individual printed recipes or your own professionally printed cookbook.

Highlights:

• Create a full color family cookbook – it’s easy and fun! 
• Invite family and friends to enter recipes and stories (you don’t have to do all the work!)
• It’s a family heirloom that will be treasured for generations
• Great for family reunions, wedding gifts and groups
• Works great on PCs, Macs and iPads
• Choose recipe layouts, covers, dividers and more (1000s of combinations)
• Upload your own photos for recipes, covers & dividers, too
• Print to your PC, a local printer like Kinko’s or have our professional team print for you
• Have a Kindle or iPad? You can put your cookbook on that, too!
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How Do YOU Eat Ramen Noodles?

Do you have a favorite way to prepare ramen ("rah-men") noodles? Have they helped you survive periods between jobs, or helped you trim your budget? Times are tough for many of us right now, and thank goodness ramen noodles are still around. Do YOU have a favorite recipe for ramen noodles? Share it with us in a comment! Mind you, I'm not talking about those cups of noodles. I'm talking about the "flat" packages of dry noodles, as shown in the photos here. I enjoy ramen noodles about once a week. Usually, I eat them "straight," with nothing added except a dash of cayan pepper. Sometimes I sprinkle a little lemon pepper into them. Sometimes I put broccoli, and maybe some cooked chicken pieces, into the hot water after the noodles are fully boiled and I've turn off the heat. That way, the chicken and broccoli get hot, but don't become over cooked. Drain off most of the water - and the excess sodium with it - and you've got a very satisfying meal. So, do YOU have a favorite way to prepare ramen noodles? If so, share your recipes with your fellow ramen eaters by sending them to us at this email address:

Ramen noodles have a history of helping people fill their stomachs during lean times, and I've eaten my share of them in leaner times. Thing is, I love them. They are easy to prepare (just boil for several minutes), and they can fill you up all by themselves or they make a nice side dish. They're cheap, even though they've increased in price from 25 cents to 35 cents recently. You can also buy them in bulk packages of six or 12 and save even more. There is a website called "The Official Ramen Homepage," but somehow I doubt its claim of being official. Nevertheless, it's an interesting site with recipes and information about ramen noodles, including weird news stories in which ramen noodles are mentioned. (I look forward to the Ramen Noodles News Network one day.) Another great website: Ramen-NoodleRecipes.blogspot.com, where you'll find hundreds of creative recipes. One of my favorites: Ramen Mussolini. Selected Reading: OMG Veg! Staff Editorial: Follow Gut Instincts When Spending Fast Food for Thought: Ramen Noodles to Warm the Heart Instant Ramen Isn't Just For Broke College Students Signs of the Times: bad economy good for noodles The Cook's Thesaurus: Asian Wheat Noodles Maruchan ramen Best ramen recipes! How to Enjoy Instant Noodles - eHow.com World Instant Noodles Association Journey into the World of Ramen snopes.com: Instant Noodles Warning Avoid high sodium Ramen

Rabbit: It's What's For Dinner!

Rescue that rabbit from the ordinary with a special recipe this weekend! Here is a collection of web sites with great rabbit recipes for you to experiment with and enjoy. Rabbit Recipes - For the small game lovers you will find Rabbit Recipes on the page. Recipes Using Rabbit - For most recipes, the rabbit is cut in serving pieces before it is cooked. Just Game Recipes - 129 Rabbit recipes Rabbit Recipes Society - 2,272 pages of information about hunting and rabbit recipes! Rabbit Recipes - Domestic Rabbit Meat - Eat Better, Cleaner and Healthier!