Kris and I are lucky to have friends who love food, friends who love to cook and share their cooking with others. I’ve often said it would be fun to create a friend cookbook — to collect favorite recipes from everyone we know, and to publish them in one of those cheap spiral-bound fundraiser books.

Kris and I have already begun the process, to some extent, though not in a truly systematized fashion. Whenever we taste something we love — at book group, at a dinner party, and Monday night football gatherings — we ask for the recipe. We’ve been adding these recipes to MacGourmet, an inexpensive recipe database.

I was afraid that MacGourmet would be pointless, but we actually like it. It’s easier than collating piles of recipe cards, or dogearing pages in cookbooks. “The best thing is that you can search,” Kris says. “You can say, ‘I have zucchini. What can I make with zucchini?’ If you have enough recipes, you can get some good answers.” I like that MacGourmet lets you tag recipes with keywords, add photos, and note the source.

I also like that MacGourmet lets you publish your recipes to the web. If you’ve ever followed the “eat” link in the sidebar, you’ve discovered Recipes from Rosings Park, which is our ongoing collection of favorite dishes from friends (as collected in MacGourmet). We recently updated the list. Here are some of my favorites:

There are some notable dishes missing here. Paul’s posole, for example, and anything from Kara or Kim. Also, there’s nothing from Craig! Actually, we still have tons more recipes to enter. “I haven’t even put in a quarter of my recipes, so it’s kind of silly to post this now,” Kris told me when she saw what I was writing. I’ll just have to post again later when we have everything in the computer.

3 Replies to “Recipes from Rosings Park”

  1. Will says:

    Marla says that her crumble is by way of Tyler Florence and not Martha. Does that mean you can get it at Applebee’s now?

  2. Greg says:

    When we got married, we did a lot of things to keep costs down. One of the things we planned was to print the RSVP cards ourselves on recipe/index cards.

    When my aunt heard we were sending out recipe cards, she thought it was a great idea that we were asking for recipes.

    We hadn’t thought of it, but since we hadn’t printed them yet, we asked for people to put their favorite recipe on the back of the RSVP.

    The end result was our “Wedding Cookbook” which we put together and sold (at break-even) It was very well received, and we make use of it all the time.

    Just thought I’d share.

  3. Amy Jo says:

    The stew recipe is from Molly O’Neil.

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