What To Do With All Those Recipes?
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in From The Cook, Odds & Ends, Recipies, kitchen talk | 4 CommentsI’ve asked myself that kind of question not too long ago. Specifically, we had no idea what we were going to do with the collection of cookbooks, recipes, cooking magazines and so on that we’ve been collecting. While we got that situation pretty much figured out, there’s still the matter of all the things that we keep hearing about and jotting down when we think of it or see a good idea someplace.
My favorite thought is to first put an end to the eternal fight of having to scramble for ink pens every time we suddenly have the need to note something down so that it doesn’t get forgotten and that’s to have a laptop close by so that notes can be typed up and saved in a text file… then they can be sorted out and organized later.
Once you get to having hardcopy of so many things, once again you’re faced with the need to find a place to keep all of it. You can’t just leave stacks of printouts laying around, that’s going to be an invitation to lose something… probably something that you REALLY don’t want to lose.
The answer there is sets of three ring binders and a three hole punch. We got one at an office supply place once and it’s great… punches all three holes for a binder all at the same time. Then we can put together binders to separate different types of recipes, tips and ideas into their own categories.
All we’ll need then is to come up with another bookcase and a place to put it to keep all of these cookbooks and binders on.
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I haven’t gone as far as printing the recipes I got online yet. Probably a good idea to print them out when I want to try those recipes. It’s a bit hard to organize recipes…
A scientist in the kitchen’s last blog post..Kimchi!!!
What I’ve decided to do is at least try to get the ones printed that we use or might use soon and get those in a binder.
I have had the same problem for years. My wife and I live in a small condo which does not have any storage. I have more than a hundred cookbooks and tons of magazines and loose recipes. It came to a point I had to donate several of our magazines to the library and to the Goodwill. As for the recipes we have filed them under different categories. It is very difficult to find a place to store all of our cooking related material when we continue to purchase more every month.
We’re not anywhere near that point yet but I can see it happening. Eventually I can imagine having a mini-library of stuff in one of those 6ft tall 5 shelf bookcases