This year for Mother’s day I was fortunate enough to celebrate three Moms! But what to get for the super women who do it all?
Well, I love sharing our family recipes because my mother is particularly notorious for accidentally leaving out ingredients or crucial steps. So it’s important to write them down to remember exactly how to make them! Since chalkboard style printables are all the rage (see a million examples on Pinterest like this board), I decided to craft up a few family recipes chalkboard style – one for each of the ladies.
I started with finding a chalkboard background and downloading a few key chalkboard fonts. There are tons of great posts on chalkboard fonts from Jenni from the blog, Lil Blue Boo, and Side of Sneakers just to name a few. Don’t forget to download some doodles, dingbats, and ornaments. I found quite a few helpful ones like LCR Kitchen Dings and Sugar Coma that were cooking themed.
Then I grabbed a few family favorite recipes and set to work with my Mom’s favorite dish from her mother. This particular recipe cracks me up because when my Mom gave it to me, I got practically NONE of the actual assembly instructions. So I was pretty anxious to see if I was able to interpret them correctly to see if this is actually how Nana makes the mac n’ cheese.
I haven’t gotten any edits back yet, but she may be saving them up to let me know in the future 🙂
Next up was my Mother’s chocolate chip recipe which I like to enjoy sans chocolate chips.
Finally, Heather’s recipe for my favorite – Black Bean Hummus. Probably not her signature dish (see Jello Pretzel Dessert) but this one had so many comments in it that I thought it was pretty funny to see how she’d changed it up from the original. 
So there’s the whole set! I put them in frames and all the Mothers had a great treat on their celebration day.
–Martta
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