At the top of the list of things I need to do and haven't had time for is the organization of my family recipes. Even though I know most of them by heart I know I need to start organizing for my children (and my own sanity) someday. I think I've found my inspiration! Check out what Shawni did with hers!
You can find Shawni over at the wildly popular blog 71 Toes. She recently took on the challenge of organizing her family recipes and that stash of things she wants to try in the new future and came up with a great system. That large pile became this simple book. Inside, it houses family heirlooms, memories galore and a stash of things she's yet to try, but has been meaning too!
Her tabs are brilliant and so is her organization, we've shown you the outside, now check out what the inside looks like and how she has things set up!
Read More: My New Pride and Joy from 71 Toes
Related: Smart Tip: Use an Address Book for Your Most-Referenced Recipes
(Image: 71 Toes)
How To Cook Fluffy, Tasty Quinoa
Perfect Summer Cocktail Recipe: Honey Bourbon Lemonade
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Elizabeth Apron fro...
100 DIY Ideas for the 3-Day Weekend
Danielle's Charming, Classic Walk-Up
That's on my To-Do list to do! My mom did something similar to this for me about a decade ago -- she made copies of her most frequently used recipes and put them all in a binder with notes on how she adjusts each. It's one of my most treasured possessions. I just need to do something similar with all the recipes I've accumulated on my own.
P.S. Sarah, the link to 71 Toes' blog is broken.
uh oh- missing link.
here's the one I found on the site :
http://www.71toes.com/2012/09/my-new-pride-and-joy.html
Thanks @m.wall. We fixed it!
I use Evernote. Just in case things are ever lost / damaged / destroyed I've got a copy. Plus I can share them with everyone easily!
Oh man, I really need to do this. Takes me ten minutes to find anything in my pile.
If you use Evernote to organize your recipes, you should really check out Say Mmm (www.saymmm.com). It will take your Evernote recipes (clipped web pages, manually entered, the works) sort them, format them nicely, and make them available to you to add to a weekly meal plan. You can even take your weekly meal plan and generate a shopping list, with ingredients divided into two categories - things you are likely to need to buy fresh (sorted by grocery store aisle) and things for which you should check your pantry first, like olive oil and salt. It is amazing, and I'm so glad I stumbled into it by sheer dumb luck.
My (newly invented) system is a backpack intended accordian folder, where all my yet-to-be-tried recipes are sorted, and then when I've tried/loved/adapted them, they go, with notes or rewritten depending on how much adjusting happened, in my red leather cookbook, which was a christmas present.
My (newly invented) system is a backpack intended accordian folder, where all my yet-to-be-tried recipes are sorted, and then when I've tried/loved/adapted them, they go, with notes or rewritten depending on how much adjusting happened, in my red leather cookbook, which was a christmas present.