One of the greatest gifts that children can give their Mother is their own recipes for the family cookbook. Mothers spend a considerable amount of time teaching their daughter's to cook and when they grow up, the Mother is always curious about how well those teachings went. Everyone has their own preferences for spices and cooking temperatures that they use for the various food dishes they prepare. The food choices in the family cookbook recipes might surprise some members of the family immensely. Some siblings might prepare microwave dishes that are simply delicious while other family member cooking skills might be compared to that of a Master Chef. Some children grasp the skills better than others, and when a Mother is given recipes that were created by their children throughout the year, it gives them some solid proof that the cooking concepts explained on Sunday afternoon were totally understood as a child. The recipes for the family cookbook are not just for Mom. They can be shared by all siblings and extended family members too. Some of the recipes for the family cookbook will be placed on colorful index cards with a culinary theme to them. Other family members might include their recipes on a computer disk and hope that their Mother has the appropriate software to open the files. The child that never grasped the concept for cooking might ask how to write the abbreviations for a cup or a fraction thereof, and Mom might be concerned when she hears this request. Some of the recipes for the family cookbook will be large enough to supply food for a large party and other recipes will have just enough food in them to feed two people. The child that never grasped the cooking concepts might not understand the concept about doubling or tripling recipes, or reducing a large recipe by half to feed a family of four with no leftovers. A Mother might start thinking that she should have worked on Math skills more than cooking skills where this particular child was concerned. The recipes for the family cookbook could be placed on a family website on the Internet too. In this open source realm, people from around the country could access their site and copy all the recipes that they wanted. Each family member could access the site and add recipes at any time during the year too. They could write out their own story about how the dish originated and place it at the bottom of the recipe. This would be the final spice to add to the family cookbook recipes that the entire family will use any time that they want.