Recipes

[novamc1]

I began collecting and compiling recipes long before I began to do much home cooking.  Have always kept them in  three-ring binders and three-prong folders, labeled by subject (desserts, salads, sauces and dressings, beef, poultry, seafood,  vegetables, etc.

Recipes that I've either copied by hand on 3x5 cards, typed, or cut from publications are taped onto hole-punched pages. in the binders or folders.

I like to keep all the turkey recipes or ground beef recipes in one place, all the green bean recipes in one place, and so on. 

There are easier ways to do this these days on the computer, but I like sitting down with printed paper in front of me when I want to select from a collection of chicken recipes, all in one place.  Occasionally, I'll make a note about a related recipe that can be found on a certain page in one of the cookbooks I have.

[gonnab]

OMG, I have so many recipes that if I use one recipe a day, I will not live long enough to use each of them - I have hundreds!!  And the sad thing is, I keep printing them off.  In fact, I couldn't sleep last night and guess what I was doing at 3:00 a.m. ? - yup - printing off some recipes from PinInterest.  I know that I could store them on my computer, but I like to have paper copy.  My system is this - I print off a recipe and put in a folder.  As I use and like it, I slip it in a plastic protector, and file in a 3" binder under the appropriate tabs, (meat, soup, breakfast, etc).   If  it isn't something I want to make again, the recipe goes in the trash.  I usually record notes on the paper, and when I want to make the recipe again, I just remove it from the binder and then refile after I'm done.  Works for me!! 

[beckyb1012]

I have specific labeled boards on Pinterest such as cookie and one for cookie bars.

The below is my index list for my HUGE three ring binder in my kitchen.

Recipes from novels

Candies, Pudding, Ice Cream

 Miscellaneous Sweets

 Miscellaneous Savory

 Cakes & Frostings

 Cheesecake Variations

 Pies

 Brownies

 Cookies

 Brownie/Cookie Bars

 Entrees

[milkbone]

Learn to take a "screen shot" of any web page and print it out !

Also learn to save web pages to your HD

Good luck !

[AnikaBrodie]

I store my recipes in several 3 ring notebooks that are stored on a kitchen shelf.  I label them Cookies, Desserts, Baking (filed alphabetically), Cooking (filed alphabetically), Miscellaneous, etc.  I used to keep them in an Internet file but now when I need a recipe I can just pull it from the binder and return it when finished.  It's more practical and works for me.

I also have a large cookbook collection and use them often.  Not all my recipes are in a notebook.

[Snowpuppy]

Call me crazy but after pitching some old/unused cookbooks I want to go back to using a recipe box.

I found some old, hand written recipe cards from when I first struck out on my own. Others from when DS was a baby .

So many great memories came flooding back! I'm going to put them in a new recipe box and treasure them.  I don't have a ton of cards but many need to be recopied.

Should be a great winter project, too!

[Laura14]

Add me to the binder crowd although I normally use my grandmother's old cookbook.  I love it.  Simple, to the point, and nothing fancy.

[sfnative]

2-4" binders filled with sheet protectors.  Each potector has 2 recipes in it: one on the front and one on the back.  I find the recipe needed, grab a piece of scotch tape and place it on a cupboard door at eye level.

My laptop also contains about 100 recipes, which are also in one of the binders, but don't want to lose them, so always make a hard copy

[joannecha]

Good timing for me, as I was just discussing this very issued with DH today & he is a mega-organizer around our house. He suggests that I do it the way he has some of his photographs stored: put inside a plastic sheet protector in binders. I'm checking out Staples on a trip next week to see what I can come up with. I though about the inexpensive dollar store folders, but I'd need a lot of them for all the categories I'd need & the paper would not be protected. I  started putting some of my recipes in an on-line storeage for recipes, but eventually you need to print it out so you've got the paper to contend with. Think I'll ponder it a while yet.

[River Song]

Add me to the binder/sheet protector crowd.  I have some recipes on my computer but I still prefer a hard copy to look at while I'm cooking and I like to write notes on the recipe. 

I need to cook/bake gluten-free and I'm always experimenting with GF flour mixes and have to write notes directly on the recipe, otherwise I never remember how it turned out using a particular GF flour.

I have many cookbooks, ok, I'm a collector/hoarder of cookbooks, lol, and I've been going through them one-by-one and donating the ones I know I'll never use.  It's difficult, though, because I love to browse through a cookbook and try something completely new.  Although I'm not a vegetarian, I do have friends that have certain food sensitivities and are GF, dairy-free, soy-free and vegetarian...a challenge to find yummy recipes for potluck dinners that everyone will love, to say the least.  So I'm reluctant to get rid of too many cookbooks because I'm always discovering a new recipe in a cookbook I've had for ages.