When my parents got married, some 33 ½ years ago, my aunt gave my mom an amazing gift. It was a cookbook, filled with my dad’s favorite recipes. To this day it is the most used cookbook in the kitchen. It’s falling apart, pages are ripped and dirty and possibly missing, but I use it every time I go home to make my dad shortbread cookies for Christmas.
Having used this cookbook all my life, and knowing what an amazing cook and baker my aunt is, I wanted my own Auntie Gayle cookbook. I told her this a few years ago and she told me that when I got married, I could have a cookbook too. I responded laughingly with, “That’s great, but I still have to eat until then.” I knew she’d been working on putting something together, setting aside recipes since we’d had the discussion, but I had no idea when this cookbook would make its way to my kitchen.
Much to my surprise, when I arrived at my aunt’s house for Thanksgiving, a cookbook was sitting on my bed! Instead of a wedding gift, it turned into a 30th birthday present. What an amazing present! It has all my favorite recipes and some new ones and I can’t wait to use it. I’m so excited to have my very own Auntie Gayle cookbook!
3 comments:
You are a very lucky girl. If I didn't have that when I was first married I would have been in big trouble.
Aaawe, I love this blog. :)
By the way, Auntie Gayle is commenting under the guise of anjekier. Guess I'll have to create my own google account.
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