I've been doing a lot of cooking lately. (Weird, I know.) And I've been trying a lot of new recipes. And finding so many more that I want to try. I don't want to lose any of these good recipes. And, as it turns out, I'm not very organized. (Okay, maybe this isn't a surprise to anyone...)
Right now I have recipes posted here and there on my blog. I have many links to recipes I find online in my email. I have very few printed or written out. (I'm not opposed to that idea, I just haven't done it.)
I feel like I need to have a system to help me organize my recipes better. I'm curious as to what other people do to keep your recipes organized.
Creole Red Beans and Rice
8 years ago
13 comments:
OneNote: http://www.perrysplate.com/2008/03/recipe.html
Ack, William beat me to it! Yes, OneNote works really well for me, if you want to fork over the money for it. :)
I use tastebook.com. Technically it's a place to put your recipes and then order them in book form but right now I just use it as a recipe organizer. I just take my computer to the kitchen when I need to make something.
Plus their books are really aesthetically pleasing and look professional when/if you do get them printed.
I use http://www.shippysoft.com/discover/
You can then search by ingredients that you have and see what recipes can be made.
I keep my recipes in two word processing documents: one for recipes that are tried and true, and one for recipes I want to try. It's worked pretty well for me. I keep them on a thumbdrive that I always have with me, and it's free, so that's cool :).
I remember something about putting tags on blog posts. It's a feature of blogger. I couldn't get it to work on mine, but you might.
Mine are in a 3-ring binder. An incredibly unorganized 3-ring binder, but there nonetheless.
If you come up with a good system, let me know!
I'm way too lazy to format things nicely for recipe websites. I basically use my mom's format, which is to make a word document for each recipe - you can cut and paste from a website or scan a book and put the image in there. You then can organize the files in directories or just search the file names or contents when you are looking for something. I have a separate directory for recipes to try. My mom also printed these out in a three ring binder, but for some reason it's easier to just look it up on the computer and print it out when you need it.
I have mine in word documents. I divide each by sections then when I find a recipe we like I add it to the document. Then when I have a full page I print it and add it into a 3 ring binder which is also divided into sections.
Oh! I found this. http://www.mydemy.com/
You know, Christmas is coming. Maybe someone will get it for you.
I have mine printed by hand or typed and stuck in a box. Then I just sift through them to find what I want. This works fairly well for me because all the papers look different so I always know what look I'm looking for. ;)
We just use tags on our website. Simple ones, like dessert, main course, appetizer, etc. But my parents-in-law love their Mastercook software. They especially use it for compiling their shopping list each week, since they shop exactly once a week and no more than that.
I use Filemaker and modified a template to keep recipes. It works great. Bento (for your new Mac) is an easy to use, less expensive data base. This link is for a template for recipes.
http://solutions.filemaker.com/database-templates/detail.jsp?serial=2550595
Home page for Bento:
http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/index.html
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