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How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

depglass — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:43:35 GMT

This would entail QVC employees soliciting viewer recipes and culling the boards for recipes. (I realize only a small percentage of viewers use the boards.) Then they would have to be tested and re-written in standard recipe language. A huge undertaking, but I think it would produce a fun cookbook from different regions of the country.

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

KingstonsMom — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:56:09 GMT

@depglass

QVC did put out a cookbook like this once, that I have.

It's called 'The Best of the Best from QVC Cookbook', Favorite Recipes from Viewers, Hosts, Employees and Friends.

The copyright date is 2002, Quail Ridge Press, in case you want to try to find it on a secondary market.

It has sooo many delicious recipes that we love!

I agree with you though, it's time for QVC to do another one!

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

Sooner — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:49:51 GMT

@KingstonsMom wrote:
@depglass

QVC did put out a cookbook like this once, that I have.

It's called 'The Best of the Best from QVC Cookbook', Favorite Recipes from Viewers, Hosts, Employees and Friends.

The copyright date is 2002, Quail Ridge Press, in case you want to try to find it on a secondary market.

It has sooo many delicious recipes that we love!

I agree with you though, it's time for QVC to do another one!

Does it have the purple or yellow cover? Didn't they put out two, or is it the same book? Anyone know? I can't remember!

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

KingstonsMom — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:53:32 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
@KingstonsMom wrote:
@depglass

QVC did put out a cookbook like this once, that I have.

It's called 'The Best of the Best from QVC Cookbook', Favorite Recipes from Viewers, Hosts, Employees and Friends.

The copyright date is 2002, Quail Ridge Press, in case you want to try to find it on a secondary market.

It has sooo many delicious recipes that we love!

I agree with you though, it's time for QVC to do another one!
Does it have the purple or yellow cover? Didn't they put out two, or is it the same book? Anyone know? I can't remember!

@Sooner

I'm not sure if they put out 1 or 2, but mine has a purple cover.

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

cherry — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:54:01 GMT

There is an online website filled with BB recipes from the Q posters

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

cerb — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:52:21 GMT

There have been 2 that I know of: QVC Family Cookbook, and Best of the Best From QVC. I purchased both copies from ebay.

Edited to add - I just checked on ebay and found many of these cookbooks on sale for less than $10. I also saw many of Mary Beth's cookbooks which I thought were great fun. For years Rick used to tease her about "Cheez-Whiz". The one cookbook that I couldn't quite get into was Bob Bowersox's. He was such a nice, pleasant man when he did most of the cooking shows on QVC, but his cookbook had a ton of fish recipes in it and I don't care for fish.

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

KingstonsMom — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:08:43 GMT

@cerb wrote:
There have been 2 that I know of: QVC Family Cookbook, and Best of the Best From QVC. I purchased both copies from ebay.

@cerb

I just checked ebay and there are lots of each of these cookbooks available on ebay for $9.99 or much less.

There's a lot of different ones by Mary Beth Roe, Bob Bowersox and David Veneable.

I was really surprised to see that Mr. Food did a 'Best of QVC' cookbook in 1998 and there's even one, 'At Home With QVC' from 1989, Kathy Levine's era.

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

KingstonsMom — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:15:52 GMT

@cerb

Sorry about posting a lot of what you said in your post, but I stepped away from my laptop for a few minutes and didn't see your edited post, before I sent mine.

Oops! Sorry to be redundant!

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

KingstonsMom — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:19:11 GMT

@cherry wrote:
There is an online website filled with BB recipes from the Q posters

@cherry

What's the website name?

I have a ton of recipes in a recipe file that I've copied and pasted from the Recipe forum, but to be able to just look them up online would be easier, since my recipe file is getting full, LOL!

TIA!

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

GenXmuse — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:45:05 GMT

I would love a cookbook like that! It feels like Taste of (

Home before they made it all sleek and sterile. I know I’ve printed out a lot of recipes from here. Maybe a Pinterest board?

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

cherry — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:14:49 GMT

@KingstonsMom It appears she has sold her website. This is what the url was, but now the recipe board is no longer there

http://www.bb-recipes.com/

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

KingstonsMom — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:25:26 GMT

@cherry wrote:
@KingstonsMom It appears she has sold her website. This is what the url was, but now the recipe board is no longer there

http://www.bb-recipes.com/

@cherry

I wonder if it was 'Carol1229'?

She posted some awesome recipes here, but also had her own website. She took amazing photos of her dishes too!

I sure miss her posting here.

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

cherry — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:26:46 GMT

I think it was a poster named Holly

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

Honeybit — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:08:46 GMT

No, it wasn't Carol1229. The lady was named Hollee and the recipes were by the Recipe Swap posters from around 2005-2008. There was also a 2005 Holiday Goodies cookbook in PDF format posted there which was put together by Adeli.

Several months ago there was a post from Hollee here in RECIPES that she was going to stop paying for the BBD site when the fees were due again. Sadly, the collection is now gone.

@KingstonsMom Hollee's site was a wonderful idea, and she did a great job of organizing and posting the recipes in categories; but it wasn't what you were longing for to just be able to look up recipes online from RECIPE SWAP and RECIPES since it wasn't kept current with every recipe ever posted here.

You can find quite a few old QVC files on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, but you have to be somewhat computer savvy to find what you're looking for and there are big gaps in what's available.

By the way, I just checked and you can find an archive of bb-recipes.com at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081016191312/http://www.bb-recipes.com/

All the way at the bottom of the page, with a green background, you will find the categories (APPETIZERS, BREADS, CAKES, etc.) -- the ones I checked still work within the Wayback Machine. You can copy and paste the reipes within each category into a Word Processor file.

The "Holiday Goodies" file mentioned above looks to still be accessible from the category LINKS.

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

shoptilyadropagain — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:08:26 GMT

@Honeybit....Thank you so much for posting the archived site for the old QVC recipe board. I used to browse this every once in awhile but hadn't looked at it in years. It's been on my mind the past few months but I didn't have the web site any longer and figured it was lost forever.

It was fun, and sad, to see a lot of those posters names that I haven't seen post here on the boards in forever.

Thanks again!!

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

Snowpuppy — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 04:27:38 GMT

@cherry wrote:
@KingstonsMom It appears she has sold her website. This is what the url was, but now the recipe board is no longer there

http://www.bb-recipes.com/

Cherry, that was Hollee's website. She compiled so many recipes, organized and posted them.

Hollee did return about a year ago to say she was taking down the site. Looks like she finally did.

Hope all is well with her and Kirby her Furby. 😗

Re: How about a cookbook from Forum Posters and QVC Viewers?

BeccaLou — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 04:38:49 GMT

I myself really liked the Christmas Album that the host made one year, DavidVenable, Mary Beth Rowe, and just to name a few, it was really a nice collection, usually most things anymore are a one time deal.Just like the Christmas Host Cooking or baking with their families while the Q. Paused for the Christmas Break, I wish it would come back It was a nice treat to watch.Maybe the Q. will take a vote.