How do you organize your recipes?

dewani_teri · February 27, 2008, 8:35pm

I have a bunch of cook books, some recipes saved on my computer, and also a drawer full of paper scraps with my favorite recipes on them. I want to organize them and categorize them!! How did you guys do yours?..

Do you print out recipes and put 'em in sheet protectors in a binder? Or do you make recipe cards? Jot down good recipes in a notebook? Or do you type 'em up and save them in your recipe folder? Share!

Gemini_the_Great · February 27, 2008, 8:57pm

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I printed out the recipes and had them in a leather binder.. before I got them binded together I added in about 200+ blank pages in there and now I just note down the recipes in it!

I have my very own recipes book which is very precious to me. :queen:

Mostar95 · February 28, 2008, 5:46am

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Learn them by heart and regularly cooking them.

wannabe_a_mum · February 28, 2008, 11:23am

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I have one of those project books that have inbuilt subject dividers - for 6 different subjects. So all I did was label various "types of recipes" - I have
- Meat/Chicken
- Veggie
- Snacks
- Sweets/Desserts
- Ramzan
- English dishes

Then just wrote in those that I had on scraps/in my head and glued in printouts and stuff. Now it's getting a bit full!

I also have my "Indian Delights" Cookbook which is amazing and well used

Ira · February 28, 2008, 4:08pm

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I have a recipe box as well as a cookbook online.

chips6 · February 28, 2008, 4:40pm

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before i got married i made this diary kinda thing...i really worked hard on it,collecting recipes from magazines and mom and where not...and my sisters used to make fun of me back then....
anyways,now i have them all over the place...have a folder on food network.com and i think i used to have one on kraft or betty crocker site too(although i have forgotten the user name now...!!..)...
have cuttings of recipes here and there....

in a nut shell...my recipes are NOT organized at the moment....sighs

aaish · February 28, 2008, 4:51pm

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hmmm,the same i have,i had a folder for my recipes,which i collected from differant websites.and one drawer full of cook books and have two dairies on which i write recipes,i am now thinking to collect all of them from dairy or books in my folder in differant catogaries,and always make stars in front of them so its easy to remember how they turned out,i am collecting them online too ,so as from which part of world i will be i can reach to them .and i told my daughters about them too so they can get help from them in future.

Sara516 · February 28, 2008, 6:05pm

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i have a bunch online…
now if only i can actually start makin g em

wannabe_a_mum · February 28, 2008, 6:14pm

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The thing with storing recipes online is that you have to either memorize them (open to mistakes?) or print/write them when wasnting to use them. Or am I missing something?

I use the A.R.A.D website for inspiration everynow and again, and as a result either print or write the recipe down, which is then added to my book.

How do you guys who have recipes stored online cope????

dewani_teri · February 28, 2008, 9:33pm

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i think that keeping recipes on ur computer/internet is a great idea as a backup…but i usually need the recipe infront of my eyes to mark things off as i cook.

i know there are some neat softwares that you can use to store recipes on your computer…i like that idea…but like i said, i need a hardcopy on the kitchen counter. oh and i also like daagh’s blog they did a neat job with it!!

chips - before i got married, i let my ammi do the cooking and i took care of the eating i have most of her good recipes, but yeah…need to organize 'em..

and here is a little known fact: i had enough trouble memorizing the alphabets…nobody should expect me to memorize recipes

wanabe a mum..i really like your idea! i think if i categorize mine like that…i’ll probably put them in sheet protectors, otherwise the pages might get dirty in the kitchen..and i like my things nice and clean.

aaish, i like the stars idea. i’m thinking of doing recipe cards..and maybe i’ll do that…all the stars will end up in the desserts section

dewani_teri · February 28, 2008, 9:35pm

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oh and i forgot to say...GTG - i think your fancy shmancy idea is really nice!!

Sidra54 · February 29, 2008, 9:43pm

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they are mostly on post-its :CareBear: