My Cooking Life

Guided journaling meets your personal recipe tracker in this
giftable journal created especially for home chefs.

Bring intentionality to your cooking life with this delightful guided journal with prompts to:
 

describe the recipes you’ve tried

explain why you chose them

note how you modified them

list what did and didn’t work about the recipe

jot down how you felt about it

 
Far more than just a blank journal for recipe tracking, My Cooking Life is destined to become a cherished, customized keepsake for anyone who loves to spend time in the kitchen.
 
With thoughtful prompts that celebrate all the creativity and work that goes into the art of creating great meals, the result is not only a keepsake that will help inform your future cooking decisions and make you a better cook but a personal memento that you’ll love to look back through.Spruce Books imprint creates giftable, highly visual books, journals, and workbooks intended to help readers age 16+ to develop self-knowledge, build emotional intelligence, and create positive connections with the world around them. Spruce Books offers inspiring, practical, meaningful, and giftable books—perfect for everyone who want to create positive change in themselves and the world around them.Cooking is much more than just providing sustenance. It is a creative
endeavor, a science experiment, a tribute to people and times past, an act
of caring, a practical education, a feast for the senses, a path to self-knowledge,
a meditative practice.

Most cooks have shelves overflowing with cookbooks and files filled with
recipes, not to mention digital bookmarks and recipe boxes where the
instructions for making their favorite or hoped-for future dishes reside.
With so much going on, sometimes it can be hard to recall where a favorite
recipe lives. In addition, many of those recipes are marked up with notes,
comments, and suggestions. Sometimes they are not, however, because you
tell yourself, “Oh, I’ll remember.” (Honestly? You probably won’t.)

Which is just one of the many good reasons to keep a cooking journal.

The purpose of this journal is to help make your cooking journey more
meaningful and memorable. Use it to enhance your experiences in the
kitchen (or at the grill, the camp stove, or wherever you are preparing
meals.) Don’t be too concerned about your prose—jot down ideas, scribble
notes, tear out recipes and tuck or glue them in—have fun with it,
and it will reward you with meaningful memories, exciting ideas, helpful
reminders, and a keepsake to be treasured.