Comments on: 3 Solutions for Organizing Recipes – Supper Saturday

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:58:16 +0000

We have one on our website. Check it out here:
http://www.personalrecipecards.com/catalog/item/4275476/5600159.htm

By: Migas

Migas — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:53:52 +0000

there are online resources such as scanmyrecipes.com that will scan and transcribe your recipes and upload into an online account. it helps organize recipes in an online format v. binders or books.

By: Freckles

Freckles — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:46:06 +0000

I recently made a recipe organizer for my mom to use, and anyone else is welcome to try it out if they want

http://recipe.gauzza.com

let me know if you have any questions, it’s not the greatest site, but my mom really likes it

By: Gwen

Gwen — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:02:51 +0000

Long ago (34 years), my then mother-in-law gave me a great little spiral bound notebook. It contains tabs for the major recipe areas (e.g., main course, salads, etc.). On the pages, you write the name of the recipe, the title of the cookbook (now website), and the page. After you make the recipe there is a space for comments (some of mine include – Never Again, Uck, Great, So-So, Less Salt, etc.). So, as I go through a new cookbook, magazine, website, if I come across a recipe I think I would like to try, I add it to my little book. That way, I do not have to try to remember where I “saw” the recipe or if I hated it or liked the one I found on the web better than the one in the New York Times Cookbook. If it is a “Never Again” I delete it from my computer. For magazine pages, if it is not a “great”, I remove it from my three-ring binders.

It also includes a section for dinner parties (who attended, what was prepared, etc). I have only used this section to indicate friends preferences (vegan, vegetarian, loves mexican food, hates fish) and/or food allergies. So, when I am planning for guests (I am still divorced) I pull out that book.

It is quite easy to make your own (the pages in my original book was long ago filled up). For anyone who loves cookbooks (or the web equivalent) it is a great way to “see it and forget it” until it is needed. If I am watching a cooking show and think, I would like to try that, I write down the necessary information (show, date, and recipe name) . . . I have thought of “making” similar books as a shower gift, but I am not certain how “useful” others would consider such a “book.”

By: Neshura

Neshura — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:30:08 +0000

Or, use one of the book-on-demand (Blurb, Lulu) services to the recipes you love bound up into your own custom cookbook. Leave room at the end to add new recipes, or just plan to do a Volume 2 or a Second Edition in a couple years when you have enough new recipes to make new clutter. A little extra work for a nice result.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:10:36 +0000

@Yazmin – Yes, there are some enormous 3-ring binders out there, but you can find smaller ones. I like the 2 inch size.

If your kitchen is really small and you like to save online recipes or ones from a magazine, you can always store them on your computer. I’m slowly moving to that technique.

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Recipe organization — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:48:07 +0000

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By: Yazmin

Yazmin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:40:48 +0000

I think I’d like the 3 ring binder the best. However, I can never seem to find any that aren’t enormously big and out of place in my kitchen.