Use Thanksgiving to Collect Family Recipes & Photos for a Christmas Family Cookbook

Thanksgiving is a great time to collect heritage recipes, take photographs and record family stories for a cookbook Christmas gift says do-it-yourself cookbook software guru.

Boise, ID (PRWEB) November 26, 2008 -- With turkey roasting in the oven and pumpkin pies ready to bake, what is a family to do during those precious minutes before feasting on Thanksgiving plenty? "Make a family cookbook!" exclaims do-it-yourself cookbook software guru Erin Miller, whose cookbook software company, The Cookbook People, (CookbookPeople.com) (http://www.cookbookpeople.com) calls Boise home.

"Turkey Day activities can be much more than watching old movies on television or playing video games," Miller says. "Use those magical moments to involve family members in your family cookbook project. They won't even suspect they are helping you complete their own Christmas gift!"

In addition to bringing a favorite dish, Miller suggests asking family members to bring a family heritage recipe to the Thanksgiving gathering. They can spend a few minutes typing their own recipe into the easy-to-use cookbook recipe template in Matilda's Fantastic Cookbook Software, the main product offered by Miller's The Cookbook People.

"When family members become stakeholders in the family cookbook project through personal investment, in this case, their leisure time at Thanksgiving, they become more excited and willing to participate on other levels," Miller adds.

That is when do-it-yourself cookbook makers can recruit family members to be involved in other activities related to family cookbook making, such as posing for photographs and recording family stories to include in the family cookbook.

For example, in addition to family recipes, Miller's cookbook software provides the option to include family biographies and photos on automatically-formatted pages that can be printed on a home computer. The software also has an option for including family addresses and birthdays as a convenient, valuable reference.

"Cookbook making is a fun project for Thanksgiving that provides a different and useful activity for the family group," notes Miller. "We never advocate pressuring guests to be involved in a family cookbook-making project while waiting for the Thanksgiving feast. That would give whole new meaning to 'Over the river and through the woods.'"

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