Home Decor: Family Recipes

Most people have a traditional family recipe, one that is a classic dish with an original twist, is always requested for potlucks and parties or is a secret only shared amongst fellow family members.

Some recipes that come to mind are my great grandmother's recipe for arroz con pollo (the Cuban version of chicken and rice), my grandmother's authentic Italian meatball recipe (evidently I don't get this one 'til marriage...we'll see about that) and my mom's signature key lime pie recipe.

All of these recipes have very different origins, but they reflect the diversity of my family and the generational love of cooking that my whole family possesses, which is pretty cool.

And just like the history that is captured through photographs and displayed prominently on the walls of our homes, why shouldn't our family culinary histories also be displayed?

We love these ideas of taking hand written family recipes and framing them for some truly original home decor!

What are some recipes you would display?

Display recipes using multicolored and differently sized frames.

Take your recipe to a printing store and blow it up to put in a large frame.

Hang recipes in frames using ribbon.

Going Green with Home Cleaning

There's been a ton of recipes floating around the internet lately (especially Pinterest) to help families stay green and clean with a variety of homemade cleaning solutions including laundry detergent, glass cleaner and floor cleaner.

We want to know, have you tried any of these DIY cleaner recipes? Are they worth the extra time to make when you're busy wrangling up the kids? What are the pros and cons?

If you haven't given any at-home cleaners a whirl here are some recipes we thought looked pretty simple for a first-timer, we're going to try some out ourselves! (Just click on the picture for the recipe.)

Laundry Detergent

Glass Cleaner

Floor Cleaner

We're seeing a lot of common ingredients here, this might not be too difficult!