One of my absolute favorite tools for the kitchen is a blank notebook.
I started working on my first notebook when I was 18. I copied recipes from my Mom, my friends (mostly sweets), and my boyfriend-at-the-times Mom's recipes, as he was a fussier eater than even me.
I soon added recipes I copied out of newspapers, magazines and cookbooks. And after I gained more confidence in the kitchen I began adding my own ideas, thoughts and recipes.
I'm still working on my notebooks, adding original recipes as well as others yummy stuff. My favorites are the coil notebooks. They are nice and large and can usually fit full pages printed off the internet or a word document (with a bit of cropping). And they lie flat when you have them open next to you in the kitchen. And? Cheap.
Know someone who likes to cook? Wrap a ribbon around a couple of blank notebooks. They'll be glad you did.
I started working on my first notebook when I was 18. I copied recipes from my Mom, my friends (mostly sweets), and my boyfriend-at-the-times Mom's recipes, as he was a fussier eater than even me.
I soon added recipes I copied out of newspapers, magazines and cookbooks. And after I gained more confidence in the kitchen I began adding my own ideas, thoughts and recipes.
I'm still working on my notebooks, adding original recipes as well as others yummy stuff. My favorites are the coil notebooks. They are nice and large and can usually fit full pages printed off the internet or a word document (with a bit of cropping). And they lie flat when you have them open next to you in the kitchen. And? Cheap.
Know someone who likes to cook? Wrap a ribbon around a couple of blank notebooks. They'll be glad you did.
13 comments:
Organizing recipes is always an issue for me. I love this idea!
I think you are my new best friend! I love to do stuff like this. I love your notebooks.
Thank you very much, ladies!
Now THIS is an excellent idea!! I am so buying some notebooks for friends this year.. perfect!
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I envy so much your notebooks ! I'm never constant (can you say this ?) and loose all the free pages I think I'll keep !! Maybe I should make a commitment for next year !
natalia - this is the perfect project for you! you can copy by hand or do what i sometimes do and glue, tape or even staple your loose pages in.
Sara, great idea/practical and I've started doing this too!
What a great idea! I love that you put pictures in too.
I started something like this, only it was in a binder. Mine got a little unorganized through the years and I spent an entire weekend last year trying to organize it. What a job.
I've always wanted to do something like this, but I haven't because I would never be able to know which book a recipe was in... how do you keep track of that? Do you have an index or do you just 'know'?
In the notebooks that are full, I have made a table of contents for each one. I have a stack of papers about 3 inches thick that need to be added to notebooks. My plan is once I have that done I will make a master index on the computer. Right now when I am looking for a recipe, half the time I just know which book it's in, the other half I have to search. And sometimes I give up.
I agree, coil notebooks are the way to go - I use them for my menu planning as well as everything else.
And now that I think about it, I think I could use to pick up a couple.
Brilliant idea! I think I'll buy myself some too.
Those notebooks looks awesome! I'd love to do that but knowing me I'd start on it, get about 3 or 4 pages in and then go back to just printing off recipes, scribbling on them and sticking them in a folder.
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