{"id":7825,"date":"2013-08-17T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2013-08-17T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T19:37:38","slug":"my-latest-wedding-gift-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/my-latest-wedding-gift-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"My latest wedding gift idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0244-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7826\" alt=\"DSC_0244-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0244-001.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0244-001.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0244-001-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0244-001-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7827\" alt=\"DSC_0245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0245.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0245.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0245-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0245-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7828\" alt=\"DSC_0247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0247.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0247.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0247-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0247-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Wedding gifts put me in a quandary and I&#8217;m not good at them, but I have decided to fix that. I think it&#8217;s a good idea to have a stash of gifts handy for weddings. Certainly family wedding gifts require a little more thought and love.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I have been slowly typing up my recipes and putting them in a binder so they are all accessible in one place. When the kids move out I can print out the recipes that they want and send them off with their own recipe books. It occurred to me that I could share these recipes with my niece who is getting married next month.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a small binder and small sheet protectors from an office supply store and some pretty scrapbook paper on clearance. I have used a normal sized binder for recipes for years, but it is bulky and wastes counter space, so I think the smaller binder is better. I printed out each recipe on a half sheet of paper and assembled the binder with lots of pretty paper dividers. I took pictures because I will miss it when I give it away. I still need to make one for myself.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about recipes and memories? Every time I use a recipe from a friend from Texas or Arizona, memories of them surround me as I cook. My aunt compiled family recipes a few years ago into small binders and I experience the same thing when I use them. Suddenly I&#8217;m back in Grandma&#8217;s kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>I know the recipes won&#8217;t mean much to my niece for sentimental reasons, but hopefully she can make some great memories of her own as she prepares these. I wasn&#8217;t much of a cook when I got married, so cook books were some of my favorite wedding gifts.<\/p>\n<p>My most requested recipes over the years have been our whole wheat bread, decadent brownies, chocolate chip cookies, butternut bisque, Mexicali pie, and black bean salsa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedding gifts put me in a quandary and I&#8217;m not good at them, but I have decided to fix that. I think it&#8217;s a good idea to have a stash of gifts handy for weddings. Certainly family wedding gifts require a little more thought and love. Over the years I have been slowly typing up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/my-latest-wedding-gift-idea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My latest wedding gift idea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-home","category-life-according-to-angela","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7831,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}