Recipe book

I haven't blogged for a while for a lot of reason which I will write about in my other blog which is is called Thoughts Deeds and Inspirations.

Suffice to say though I have done copious amounts of cooking.  I have had heaps of people contact me asking why I haven't written for so long, and I promised that I will be back.

I will start by saying that one of the things I enjoyed cooking recently was a Red Velvet Cake.  I am not a great baker but since coming to Tasmania I have ventured towards using the oven more often to cook sweets.

I promise to blog more often but my best excuse of all for not blogging is because I was actually writing a recipe book.  Heaps of people tell me I need to jot down my recipes. Most of the recipes that I cook are from the top of my head and it could be something I saw here, something I read there and as I cook I experiment.  Therefore, no recipe is ever the same.

My children always call me up and say 'how do you cook this or that' and I painstakingly try and tell them the ingredients, always ending up saying ' just taste it and add what you think it needs'.  My son Jason then said to me in exasperation the other day, 'you really need to write these recipes down and give it to me'.  This had me thinking and one day looking through the web I found a site that I can actually print a book. Self publish if you will.

I sat and wrote out recipes that the kids like to eat. The ones they call me up for the most, or tell me to cook the most. I thought 20 pages would do, but all of a sudden I found that I had more than 25 pages. Oops!  I checked the website and I could go to 40 pages for the next price bracket. This was getting to be expensive! Anyway, I finished it, proof read it, got my husband to read it and uploaded it.  Once, I was on there, the site suggested that I put the book up for sale !

Since, I knew a lot of my friends who really wanted my recipes, I decided to put it up for sale on the company's website and also send it to Apple Itunes for them to sell it.  So here is the link to the book if you are interested... and I will write again tomorrow.....

http://au.blurb.com/books/3633332