Recipes

[poohbear1]

was using a recipe card box but was getting annoyed pulling out the cards in each section to find a recipe. Bought a recipe book on amazon where i wrote down my best recipes but now that I saw the book the poster is using that actually holds the recipe cards, I think I'll get one of those and put my cards in the book. think that will be easier than digging thru the recipe box!

[milkbone]

You can also use your cell phone camera !

Take a pic, email it to yourself, or store it on the cell phone !

[poohbear1]

just ordered two beautiful recipe card albums by Lang that will hold 4 x 6 recipe cards. This will be a good winter project for me -organizing all my recipes and I like the idea of flipping thru a book rather than digging thru my very full card box. Thanks for bringing up this topic- it got me going at something I've been meaning to do.

[Toppers]

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@AnikaBrodie wrote:

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.

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I have mine in some old three-ring binders.

I first put those binders together about thirty years ago. I have just added to them over the years. 

[poohbear1]

just finished sorting thru a half a drawer full of recipes I've printed out and never tried..i forgot what i had in there. I put them all in folders and once I get the new albums, I'm going to use one album for all the recipes i've tried and we like and the other one for the recipes i want to try. This way when I want to try something new i'll just flip thru the book and actually be able to find the recipe! tobi

[151949]

I have many of my cookbooks bookmarked with stick it notes and I write on the bookmark what recipe it is, I have many stored in my pocket online and I have hundreds in one of those photo albums with the plastic covered pages. I use the ones in the album most often and that is why they are in there.

[monicakm]

I have an old accordian style book/folder that is probably 30 years old. Just cleaned it out a few years ago.  The recipes that are still in  there have been scanned into my computer.  I have a recipe folder on my computer and tablet that contain 300+ recipes I created e-recipe cards for  in Photoshop (example below).  I have a recipe folder in Windows Live Mail (email) and I have a lot of recipes stored in "Favs" on allrecipes.com.  So yeah, they're all over the place   I would love to be more organized but need to choose my battles so I'm choosing to let this one go <lol>  I find what I need sooner or later.  My daughter uses an app called Chef Tap.  She says it's the only app she's found invaluable enough to buy.

[candys mine]

Recipe boxes.  All my recipies are hard copy.  All in file boxes and my favourite ones get re-written in a book titled Favourite Recipies.  I don't like keeping recipies anywhere I may not be able to access them. Pen and paper don't crash.  

[bonnielu]

I have recipe books.  I used to collect them.  I hardly ever opened them.  If I want to make something I look at the box they came in, or I go online to a few places that have recipes.  I am about to donate my books to the local girl scout store (charity).  

I am not a good cook, not my thing.  

[blackhole99]

I guess I'm old fashioned cause I still keep my recipies on 3x5 cards in a recipe box. I even have my MIL's  metal recipe box with her coveted recipies that she would not give out when she was alive. I come from a long line of fantastic cooks of Eastern European descent and we use words like "the knack" to describe skills.LOL