Cook books....ever write one?

How about beginning with publishing your recipes in a blog? Blogs on cooking have many avid readers, and you could get valuable feedback. Another point is you don't have to complete the whole book prior to publication, but can start with some recipes and add as you go... In the end you will have your collection ready and could transform it into an ebook. I have also been dreaming about publishing a cookbook, one based on Astrological principles. Maybe some time when I will be retired ... My mother did it: she published a cookbook in 1982 which has since be come a bestseller in our "Bessarabian" community here in Germany. She collected all sorts of recipes from Bessarabian housewifes and thus preserved them for the younger generation. (Bessarabia is a place near the Black Sea where German settlers had been living for generations until World War II. It now belongs to Ukraine and Moldavia.) Go on, don't give up your dream! Good luck!

I think it's great that you love to cook and want to publish your receipes. Go for it girl. I have never published mine, but I did make one of my favorite receipes. So dear, do not dream about it, do it.

I like to be like you, but i cannot, so it's better to publish it so you can have extra money...to save cost and time try to publish it in www.lulu.com it is good step to try.

Cooking is one of my passions. I do love to cook and the more people brag on my cooking, the more I cook. lol I have been told that I should publish a cookbook. I would not know where to start though. I have made family cookbooks and that was such fun but I would never sell them.

Yes I do love to cook and try new recipes too. I have a mastercook recipe program on my computer. When I try a new recipe and like it I add it to my personal cookbook. One of these years I plan on printing copies for my family for Christmas. It is always a work in progress. I like to try a new recipe or 2 a week. My Mom uses the program too and she has her own cookbook she continues to add to also. We give each other updated copies on cd's every few months. I hope maybe this will help with some other options. I know you can buy the software at most computer stores.

I've made a makeshift cookbook of recipes I like but none that I've created myself

I have been told that I should write a cookbook. Who knows what you can do when you put your mind to it. How many people start out just as cooks in their own home and rise to be the next Food TV Star.

I think it's a great idea! I love to cook and create also but never write the actual recipes down. I'm not good at keeping track of how much I've thrown in of this or that :) My mother-in-law and her friends put together recipes and just put them in a photo album and gave them out as gifts for Christmas one year. I think you should definitely give it a shot. Paula Deen was a single mom struggling to make ends meet and now she's a cooking mogul with several cookbooks and TV shows!

I never have but my children's school as a fundraiser asked every family to bring in their favourite recipe, the school collated them all and put them together in a book the result was a fantastic recipe book and a very successful fundraiser. I say 'go for it' if you love to cook and everybody you cook for loves your food it's sure to be successful.