5 Ways to Share Your Family Recipes

About Tori Thurmond

Tori Thurmond combines her creative writing background with her marketing experience in her role as the Content Specialist at Brookdale. When she's not writing, she's probably spending time with her two cats or knitting.

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How many boxes of family recipes do you have lying around your home? And when’s the last time you cooked one of those dishes or shared one of your favorite family meals with a loved one? It can be easy to forget about the recipes you’ve collected over the years, so here are five ways you can share your recipes with those you love.

Make a Recipe Scrapbook or Family Cook Book

If you love creating intricate scrapbooks recapping all of your family’s memories, why not make one containing your favorite recipes? Not only will creating a personalized recipe scrapbook allow you to revisit recipes you haven’t looked at in years but you’ll also create a beautiful family heirloom in the process! If scrapbooking isn’t your thing, websites like Shutterfly allow you to make a professional-looking recipe book that will fit in with the other cookbooks on your shelf. Think of how much easier it will be to look through family recipes with your loved ones from a book instead of sifting through boxes of recipe cards.

Frame Your Favorites

Do you find yourself coming back to a few of your family recipes over and over again? Consider framing your favorite recipes and hanging them somewhere in your kitchen. You’ll still be able to reference the recipe card if needed, and hanging the recipes that mean the most to you adds a personal touch to any kitchen that friends and family can also enjoy. You could even frame a recipe of yours that a loved one particularly likes and give it to them to hang in their own kitchen.

If you don’t have a good space to hang recipes, consider having one of your cherished recipe cards printed onto a tea towel or a dinner platter. Not only are these customizable options great to pull out on special occasions but they also make heartfelt gifts that your loved ones can display in their own homes.

Include the Recipe with the Meal

Whether you cook a meal for a loved one when they are going through a difficult time or you just felt like making something delicious for a family member, write down the recipe for the dish to include when you deliver the food. This way, your loved one will be able to recreate what you’ve made them and think of you when they make it themselves.

Host a Family Recipe Potluck

What’s a better way to share your favorite family recipes than to make a whole meal from them and invite people over to enjoy the feast? But don’t feel like you have to do it all yourself. Assign different family members or loved ones a recipe that they can make and bring to the potluck. You’ll be surrounded by some of your favorite people and food. This fun activity even has the potential to turn into a family tradition where you get to visit and revisit the meals that mean so much to you and your loved ones.

Start a Blog

If you’re interested in sharing your family recipes with a wider audience, starting a recipe blog might be something to consider. There are several sites that are great for starting blogs depending on what you’re looking for. While this option for sharing recipes is a bit more time consuming, blog writing could be your next hobby. Take a look at a few of the countless food blogs that exist online to gain inspiration for what you want your blog to look like. Even if you don’t post frequently, blogs are a fun way to share your ideas with others. You can even send your blog link to your friends and family so they can keep up with what recipes you’ve been revisiting lately.