I Wrote A Book!

 Amazon.com: Feeding Family: From my table to yours, traditional and new recipes for all day, all year, holidays, and special diets eBook : Schroeder, Fran, Schroeder, Zachary: Kindle Store

Above is the link to the book I wrote and self-published. It's a cookbook called Feeding Family: From my table to yours, traditional and new recipes for all day, all year, holidays and special diets. I have been thinking about writing this since January. 

I have collected a lot of recipes over the years, modified in my notes so I can eat them. I have also created a lot of recipes too. When you have certain foods you can't eat, finding recipes can be difficult. As an example, I watched "Guys Grocery Games" and "Beat Bobby Flay" on the Food Network over the past two days. I wouldn't be able to eat anything that was made based on ingredients! 

So, I went ahead and wrote and published the cookbook. I have recipes for busy weeknights that are realistic. I've read a lot of cookbooks. When a professional chef writes a cookbook, their "weeknight easy", "quick meals", and anything else like that are forgetting the chopping time. They are also complicated and have a lot of ingredients. 

My book also has affordable meals, classic recipes, family recipes including Christmas cookie recipes. Zach took the pictures. He had a lot of fun with that. I have a chart in the back for measurements. It's for if you want to cut the recipes in half or double it. 

To get the fall pictures we went a whole week pretending it was fall. We pulled out the fall linens and make the regular meal plan for fall. In the back of the book are all of my seasonal meal plans. It also has baby food recipes. 

I am glad I did this. It's funny, recently someone read my blog post, "Me At 40". So, I re-read it. We still lived in the condo back then. I was certain I wouldn't have any more big, good things happen to me. I assumed to house and no career accomplishment. Yet, here a sit, just under 3 years later. In my house as a published author. I like to think of this as a hidden gem book. When someone stumbles across it, they enjoy the find and share it. Taking pride in being the one to discover this great cooking book.