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| 1251.4 | Sorta organized | OURVAX::JEFFRIES | the best is better | Wed Jul 13 1988 11:24 | 9 |
| I have thousands and thousands of recipes. The small clippings
I staple to 3x5 file cards (saves time) and I keep them in a 2 drawer
portable file which has separaters, larger clippings go on 8X11
sheets and put into a lose leaf note book. I keep all Christmas
issues of mags. with recipies in boxes and only take them out for
the season. In the kitchen, I have a 3 shelf book case (which I
have outgrown) for the many cook books that I have. Included in
this collection are many food mags and a giant print out from this
file that was assembled by some on a few years ago.
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| 1251.5 | My own cookbook? | VAXRT::CANNOY | Down the river of Night's dreaming | Wed Jul 13 1988 12:29 | 26 |
| What I'd like to find and haven't seen for a while, is a book with
multiple snap-open rings (like an anddress book) that has individual
cards to it. The cards sort of overlap and 3 make up a page. Sort
of like:
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R | | Card 1
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I | |
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N | | Card 2
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S | | Card 3
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This way you can easily update the book, take a recipe out while
cooking or shopping. Any one seen one of these lately?
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| 1251.6 | the time is well spent... | MYVAX::LUBY | love them furry terrorists | Wed Jul 13 1988 15:34 | 12 |
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I too have my own cookbook. Its in VAX Document and is
a great idea because I can stick recipes in the middle,
change recipes, delete recipes, rearrange recipes. I
would recommend that everyone type their recipes into
the computer (I spent 1/2 hour a day for several months
doing this). The result is great!! In addition, many
of the recipes are my mothers (she is a better cook than
I) so she has a copy too!
Karen
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| 1251.7 | Scratch N' Sniff | VIDEO::CORLISS | | Thu Jul 14 1988 17:43 | 10 |
| I have a small, lined paged book that is almost filled with many
favorite recipes. I simply write my recipes on the blank pages.
I started this book a few years back and affectionately call it
my "Scratch and Sniff" book, because the remains of the more popular
recipes are splattered on a few pages.
For recipes I've accumulated thru this file, I've simply printed
the recipes, then organized on clear pages in a 3 ring binder separated
by index tabs for various "types" of recipes (i.e. Appetizers, Italian,
Oriental, Main Dishes, Reference).
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| 1251.8 | | WITNES::DONAHUE | | Fri Jul 15 1988 12:10 | 10 |
| I do that, too.
I use a three ring binder and section it off with tabs for each
category. When I find a recipe in this file or a magazine that
I like, I just insert into the binder. Keeps things neat.
They fill up fast, though. I have three binders already and I've
only started collecting recipes this year!
Susan (the over-achiever organizer) 8^)
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| 1251.9 | photo album | AIMHI::LESTER | CLAIRE BOLAND | Fri Jul 15 1988 12:52 | 7 |
| I use a 4X6 photo album, I write the recipe out on a 4X6
index card and just slide it into the album pocket. the album
pockets are plastic and wipe off great. The album is of the
3 ring style so moving pages is easy to keep similar recipes
together.
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| 1251.10 | Fun with Scissors and Tape | VALKYR::RUST | | Fri Jul 15 1988 17:06 | 28 |
| Inspired by the newspaper article (and overwhelmed by the stack
of old magazines and newspapers that I'd been saving), I sat myself
down and spent a pleasant three or four hours clipping recipes.
(I was _amazed_ at the amount of paper I got to throw away!) I even
went so far as to raid a couple of cookbooks that I only kept for
the sake of one or two recipes. As I clipped each one, I filed it
in the appropriate folder (Poultry, Meat, Vegetables, etc.), and
there they sit.
This was pretty quick, and makes it very easy to add new recipes;
and searching through one folder for "something interesting to do
with eggplant" is pretty fast. However, someday when I'm feeling
artsy-craftsy again, I may transfer the contents of the folders
to a photo album (preferably the kind with the lift-up plastic film,
to simplify additions, deletions, and reorganizations).
Oddly enough, I discovered that about half of all the recipes I
collected were for artichokes (all I ever do with them is steam
'em and dip 'em in butter, but I have about a dozen recipes!);
avocados; and tea-party-related stuff (tarts, scones, etc). Not
exactly a well-balanced assortment, but appetizing...
Now, _someday_ I'm going to have a PC in my kitchen, and I will
put all this stuff on line, along with software to make up the
optimum menu to use up whatever I have left in the fridge. Won't
*that* be fun!
-b
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