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What basic recipes would you or do you keep in your family cookbook - things you feel your children should be able to make, homemade convenience recipes, things to make/follow/keep on hand when you are not able to menu plan or cook? Thanks!
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Must have a good chocolate chip cookie recipe. Can you tell where our priorities lie?
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Yes, chocolate chip cookies! 
Chili also comes to mind. It's a regular item on our table this time of year. I'm putting together a list of dinners that my ds can make. He gets home before the rest of us on "football practice nights" and likes to cook. The problem is that I need to have the groceries on hand.
Besides chili, barbecued chicken, spaghetti and meatballs, and chicken noodle soup would be included. We have to do everything gluten free so our recipes look a little different than most.
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Yes, chocolate chip cookies!! I will add that this afternoon. Chili is a good one also. I have added basic muffin recipes w/add in suggestions, homemade baking mix, taco salad instructions, various soups, and all of my menus and grocery lists from E-Mealz I hole-punch and add each week. Chili is a great suggestion also! Thanks!
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Mary, 10
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Henry, 7
Molly, 6
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Here's what I've been putting together:
I have very basic, "master recipes" so to speak.
Chicken, beef, fish and vegetable stocks.
Basic soups and stews: chicken noodle, beef stew, "cream of" soups.
Pie crust, pie toppings (streusels, etc.). Basic instructions for different fruit fillings.
Quick breads -- plain muffins, scones, biscuits, pancakes, then variations that can be done. How to make french toast.
Basic vinaigrette -- then variations. Dressing for fruit salads.
3 Smoothie recipes plus a list of suggested add-ons.
Larabar/Jocalat recipe.
How to boil, fry, poach and bake eggs. Instructions for scrambled eggs and omelettes.
Basic instructions on roasting meat, poultry, and veggies. Some suggestions for meat/poultry/veggie/pasta or rice combinations (one-pot or one-dish meals)
Basic white bread, whole wheat bread and spelt bread. Pizza crust and pizza sauce, + suggestions for toppings.
How to cook pasta properly. Basic pasta sauces: red sauce, white sauce, meat sauce, oil and garlic. A few variations.
Instructions for a custard -- one that can be used for savory (quiches and stratas), and another for sweet (clafoutis).
"Knife skill" instructions: julienne, cube, dice, chop. Recipe for mirepoix. (At some point I'd like to add pictures)
How to cut up chicken.
Chart of beef and pork cuts.
How to do a basic vegetable stir-fry.
Recipes for white sauce, brown gravy, basic "Asian sauce".
Basic instructions for curry (spices + coconut milk).
How to cook rice and other grains. Basic "in water" , then instructions for variations, i.e., pilaf, fried rice, etc.
One recipe for chocolate cake, one for yellow, one for sponge. Instructions for chantilly cream and French buttercream. Basic instructions for simple cake decor and assembly.
Basic butter cookies, sugar cookies, and ideas for variations. And yes, of course a chocolate chip cookie. And brownies. (I'm tempted to add cheesecake but I won't.)
Sandwich filling combinations.
How to make an easy salsa, guacamole, hummus and aioli.
Basic salads -- green, pasta, tuna or chicken, fruit.
Basic instructions on what to do with leftovers: chicken, beef, veggies, fish, bread.
Instructions for storing food.
Last but not least, what I'm trying to do is have a 2-page layout for each recipe -- on the left side is "how to do it from scratch" and on the right is "how to do it with mostly store bought stuff". I have no idea yet how to make that for certain things, like the brownies, other than for the right page to say "buy it". 
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wow that's ambitious Stef.
For a family cookbook, I keep things that we use regularly or use a special recipe for (grammy's peach cobbler or zucchini bread) but many things don't really have a recipe. Like speghetti sauce. I'll teach the kids to make it but I likely won't write down a recipe.
Oh I'd also be sure that special recipes include those we use for holidays.
And then there's how my mom and grammy did it.. I was encouraged to copy any recipes I wanted.. the funny thing has been that I did that and I've had my mom contact me for the recipes because the one she had got lost or something. Very nice that way.
Ones I've used lots are in email drafts. Which also makes them very nice to share online (copy/paste, not having to type it all up). But I guess that will also make it easy to make a little book out of them.
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A basic muffin recipe along with some ideas for variations/dress-ups. Also, I would be very certain to include instructions for "How to Boil Water" (that is added with great love for one of my dd's who likes to pretend she doesn't know how to cook).
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I loved what you said about about copying mom and grandma's recipes, Jodie! Sometimes, even as an adult, nothing will satisfy me like one of their recipes because no matter what it is, it's comfort food!
Something my mom did for me was make good quality color copies of the cherished family recipes in their original handwriting. It gives me such joy and a sense of purpose when I go to make my Grandma's recipes and find her lovely handwriting there, even though she no longer lives on this earth to make them for us. :-)
Along the same lines, there are certain things that I just know how to make because I did them so many times with my mom or grandmother (like your spaghetti sauce!). I recall happy childhood memories in that way.
Anyway, to get back to family recipes I would say easy soups (my preferred soup is minestrone), quick breads, I second the chili idea (I have 3 main types of chili we love: a typical bean and beef chili, which chicken chili, and buffalo chili), holiday recipes such as candied yams, stuffing, mulled apple cider, & cheesecake, humm...other than that I'm drawing a blank. I'll have to pull mine out!
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