I have a friend who collects aprons. I have a friend who collects African artifacts. I have a friend who collects spoons. One thing they all collect is recipes. Me, too. I'll bet you do, as well. Most of us are always looking for a new, fabulous recipe and we love those tried and true. While we may have lots of cookbooks, most of us use the same ones over and over. And most of us have some type of file or personal recipe collection. And sometimes, they just simply aren't functional for us.
- Use standard 8 1/2 x 11" paper. Recipe cards/boxes may be cute, but what do you do with a new recipe from a magazine? Put it in a pile until you get time to transcribe it to the card? No! They are easier to type, store on your computer, reprint when needed.
- Plastic sleeves are great. They protect your recipes and they allow for you to quickly slip in a recipe you want to try.
- Got lots of recipes? Use several small binders instead of one giant one. They are more convenient to handle and nice when making several recipes (such as during Thanksgiving time, etc) to have two books open at once. I like no larger than 1" binders, divided by categories such as "Main Dishes" and "Bread & Breakfasts."
- If you have cookbooks that you keep because you use a FEW recipes out of them (and don't want to keep them based on their literary or collective value), take your favorite recipes out of the book and put in your personal recipe file, then get rid of the cookbook.
- If you love to collect and try new recipes, designate a binder full of empty plastic sleeves. Add new recipes to try there, just slipping them into the sleeves. Make a goal to try one every week or so. If they pass your taste tests, then put them in your regular binder. If not, throw them away. If you don't have enough room for all the recipes you want to try, eliminate some you've lost interest in trying before adding any new ones.
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