I'm looking forward to having some free time around the holidays and, along with some much-needed relaxation, I'm planning on tackling a long-overdue project: organizing my recipes. If this time-consuming task has been on your to-do list, here are some tips for getting your recipe collection in order, whether you're using printed recipe cards, iPads, or a simple binder.
For my own overhaul, I'm giving the cross-platform app Paprika a try. I've just started using it, but I like that it allows me to easily pull recipes from the web with one click, input personal recipes on my laptop, and reference the recipes on my phone while I'm cooking. But no matter what your organizational preferences, there are plenty of options below.
GENERAL ORGANIZATION
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ORGANIZING RECIPES WITH CARDS & BINDERS
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• Smart Tip: Use an Address Book for Your Most-Referenced Recipes
ORGANIZING RECIPES WITH TECHNOLOGY
• Organize Recipes Using Google Reader
• The Recipe Box: A New Recipe Organizer for Your iPad
• Get Organized! Using Evernote in the Kitchen
Do you have a great system for organizing your recipes?
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I use a similar app called Evernote to organize all of my recipes. I love that I can reference them at the store on my phone, and email recipes easily to friends while we talk about them.
One of the reasons why I started my blog was to have a keepsake of all my recipes...mostly my baby-friendly recipes. I've been meaning to use technology to organize my recipes...I love the idea of reting a personal recipe book online which I can print. Thanks for all the great ideas!!
I have tried a few different ways to organize all the recipes I tear out of magazines, but right now here is the method I am using: http://theglamoroushousewife.com/2012/09/recipe-organizer-diy/
Thanks doll,
The Glamorous Housewife
We just started using BigOven. Seems to work well.
My big revelation in recipe organization was to stop trying to put them all in one place and just use a consistent category system in all places (three binders, internet bookmarks, recipe book, etc.).
I mainly only have my cooking magazines organized, though, everyone that has seen them has been impressed by my idea to organize them by month rather than year because in food especially, seasons matter. This way, I just pull out my december section for all of the holiday cookies I need, you know?
I use (and love) an app called ChefTap. Pulls recipes from any online source with pictures. I can create my categories. It is so easy having everything on my phone.
I have just got the app "Evernote Food" and started playing with it. I have been using it to record entertaining events. I list the menu, details and add a picture. Haven't tried adding recipes yet.
I use BigOven and love that it lets me just take photos of paper handwritten recipes and add them without typing myself! I keep ALL my recipes on my phone - no more paper - so I can search and scale them all, and create menus and a grocery list. I use BigOven's mobile apps, but they also have a website too. You can even search recipes from other cooks too - they have over 250,000 recipes!
Before my mother retired she took about 20 years of Bon Appetit and 10 years of Gourmet magazines and went through all of them, cut out the recipes she wanted to try, photocopied them and put them into a binder according to the type of food (meat, vegetable, desserts, etc). I don't know why she didn't wait until after she retired...but that is how she keeps all her recipes now. She's old school, if I told her about an 'app' I would have had to spend days doing it for her...
i'm old school and largely use print-outs, photocopies or hand-copied A4 pages. i then have 4 folders: one for savoury dishes to try and then the successful recipes once tried get stored in another folder, and a similar set up for desserts and baking (to try, successful). this works for me!
I am definitely a cookbook/recipe junkie! I have just retired and since I was in my teens I have been sneakily trying to tear out pages from magazines in doctors' or dentists' waiting rooms without anyone seeing or hearing me. Then I had to fold them up and smuggle them out! I had so many cookbooks I had a cookbook sale and got rid of a lot of them. And STILL I buy more! Because the family have flown the nest I do much less baking and cooking than I used to so I spend more time buying and reading cookbooks than I do actually using them!
That being said, now I am retired I can a) start doing more baking for the family and b) look into an app that will let me keep all the recipes not in cookbooks in order! Well, that's the plan ...