A family cookbook with food for everyone to enjoy!

Welcome and thanks for dropping by! You will find recipes here that you can enjoy on many special occasions as well as for your regular daily meals. The majority of these recipes are quite easy to prepare using basic kitchen equipment and utensils.

This collection of recipes was started many decades ago by my Mother. Both friends and family gave her recipes that they had tried and liked, and she also found recipes from various other sources. These recipes frequently made our family meals exciting by having something new to try on a fairly regular basis.

This recipe collection was originally contained in a small wooden recipe box, which it quickly outgrew. All of the recipe cards are currently kept spread between two shoe boxes and even they are getting to be quite full.

Following in my Mother's footsteps, I continue to collect recipes from many sources, including my family and friends. New recipes are added to this ongoing collection as frequently as possible. This is my cookbook and I invite you to make it yours as well. My motto when it comes to eating is simple: I want food in my food! Yes, there are great recipes to be found here, and many of them. Enjoy!


Which recipes are the most popular?

This is something that seems to vary from year to year and season to season so I can only tell you what appears in the recent information. The foods that we eat can change over time for various reasons including our health, weight or mood.

As of July 1, 2007 these recipes have been viewed the most during 2007. So, while you're here be sure to visit the following pages:

Here's Something Useful

Or perhaps it is just for fun. You can try this calorie counter to see how you're doing. Or not doing.

If you want to find out what's new...

Periodically changes are made and/or new recipes are added to this web site. When these events happen I'll post a message on the web log. Now and then there may be other food related information posted there too. Keep yourself current and read all about it at the Shoebox Recipes Blog.

  • New Recipes!
  • Site Improvements!
  • Cooking in General!

[+] Read more at Shoebox Recipes Blog...

Pardon Our Dust

This site is in the midst of a total redesign and becoming CSS based for those of you who may care to know. As of this writing, there are only a few pages that reflect the new format. Over the next several months there will be more and more pages converted to look similar to this page. It just takes time and with approximately 900 pages to edit it may take quite a while. I will be adding some cross-referencing so that you can see which other recipes might be similar to the ones that you are looking at.

I sincerely hope that you like this new format. I know that I do. :-)

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