Recipe organisation

There are many ways to organise your recipes - handwritten cards, software like SousChef or BigOven, or websites like Allrecipes. 

None of these particularly work for me, as many of the recipes I want to keep come from magazines or the newspaper. I had been hauling around my own bodyweight or more in old food mags from flat to flat - every time we move my husband holds up a battered and splattered four-year-old copy of Food Observer Monthly and asks plaintively: 'Do you really still want this?'

So, to solve the problem, I invested in five A4 portfolio books with clear plastic pockets inside. I spent about a week filleting all my old food magazines into piles. I only separated the recipes into high-level categories of sweet things/baking of all kinds, Asian and Asian-inspired things, pasta and related and then a catch all of meat and veggie main dishes. One of the things I love about food magazines is the joy of flipping through and becoming randomly inspired. I use the internet for specific searches mainly, it's just not as satisfying to skim loads of blogs and recipe sites. The plastic pockets keep the pages clean too, which is a nice, because I'm a bit messy.

How do you store and organise your recipes?

Comments

[Guy Aron]

I don't have many recipes because my wife has a lot of food intolerances. However, with those I do collect from the newspaper etc I stick into one of those books with the A4 clear plastic sheets. I stuck some tabs (post-it notes) with headings like Bread & Pizza, Vegetables, & Mains. We don't bother with sweets, just generally have fruit - not out of virtue - neither wants to get fat(ter)!

Of course you could use a few of these books, one for each category.

How's the cello going BTW? I am enjoying my new bow.

Regards

Guy

[Erin]

Hi Guy

Cello is not happening at the moment, I'm too pregnant to play really. Looking forward to getting back on track once he's born. That's exciting about your new bow... I'm amazingly still happy with the one I've had for years.