<p>This cookbook was originally written as a Christmas gift for my daughter Lindsey. I worked morning noon and night to gather a collection of recipes from my own kitchen as well as recipes from family and friends. These recipes were Lindsey's favorites those she would request time after time. The more people I talked to about their recipes the more people would come to me because they heard I was looking for Lindsey's favorites. What started out to be just a little booklet was turning into a full-fledged cooking encyclopedia!</p> <p>I gave Lindsey the small unedited version for Christmas that year with the understanding that I needed it back so that I could put together the other recipes I had collected. I continued working on my book and what started out as a forty-page cookbook was now over one hundred pages. </p> <p>This book contains a conglomeration of recipes from friends family and even Lindsey as well as from me and my fiancé Curt. We have all contributed our best-loved favorite recipes. No matter who contributed the recipes they are all contributed with love. After all that was the original intent of my gift to my daughter. Finally I give this gift to Lindsey with all my love.</p>