Where do you keep your recipes?

[Hailstorm]

Do you have them all in a neat little book?
Are they in a file on your Computer?
Bits of paper around the house?
at taste.com :2lol?

I started to put them all in a file on my computer got to about four and gave up, I reckon one of those books where you write in your recipes would be good for me....

So how are your recipes stored?

[Aine]

mine are in a book either stuck in or hand written. I also have a rather large cook book collection the regularly used ones are stored in the bottom draw in the kitchen for easy use and the rest are in the bookshelf in the lounge for public viewing.... when i go to taste i print off and stick in book

[Hailstorm]

Oh I never thought of printing them off, cos my puter is so far away from the kitchen I usually just scribble down the jist of the recipe and tend to run back and forth between bedroom and kitchen cos I can't read my own rushed chicken scratchings :2lol

[SpringMumma]

I've got an arch lever folder thing (you know what I mean), with plastic sleeves in it that I can slip recipes into....I made it when I was about 12 (seriously) and diligently typed up all the recipes I liked out of mum's handwritten recipe book, printed them out and stuck them in. I've typed up more during the years too and stuck them in. I also have lots of spare plastic sleeves at the back, so when I rip recipes out of magazines I just pop them in. I like this way because it lays flat/props up easily, and if I splash ingredients on there I can just wipe it off the plastic.

Part of me would like to make a nice new one, but that's something comforting (and amusing) about my totally old-school folder with hideously outdated contact covering it.

[bubbalove]

I have the ones I use most jammed behind the spice rack in teh kitchen, mainly written in an old exercise book. The other books are in the lounge room, or on the dining table where I've been reading them. I love cookbooks :)

[mama_bel]

I have those A4 clear refill folders for recipes I print out or cut out of mags etc. They're in the pantry. I have recipe books too, on top of the kitchen cupboards. I mainly try to get them into the folder asap or I end up chucking the papers out if they are lying around.

[Hailstorm]

I would really like to have one recipe book that I've made I'm thinking maybe I could start a scrapbook of some sort...actually a friend of ours owns a scrapbooking store I'm gonna ask her what I can do

[soulmama]

You can buy specific software for this purpose so you can just cut and paste.. or type in and edit like Living Cookbook. (http://www.livingcookbook.com/)

Although I have been using a free program called Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/?gclid=CM-xxdue0I8CFSosagodjw05-Q) to help me keep track! :)

[Hailstorm]

I've got something on my computer which i have used but i want something I can hold and flick through, I'd like to be able to have all my faves in one place IYKWIM cos currenty they are all over the place :2lol

[mrs fox]

I have them EVERYWHERE!
on the computer, in my head, in the pantry, cookbooks, cutout in a scrapbook...I even purchased on of the fancy one where you can write you own....all these ideas lasted about 5 seconds
I should really do something too...

[sarah bean]

stuck in to a regular old school exercise book that i've been using since i was a teenager. i stick new ones over the old ones that i dont use anymore...

[Nyree]

I've got heaps of cookbooks & mags, but I'm also onto my 2nd lever-arch folder with the plastic sleeves. There's also a folder of bookmarks in my browser & another folder on my computer where I've copied recipes into Word docs & saved them. When I'm going to use one of the recipes from the computer, I usually print it out, then stick it it in a plastic sleeve - saves it getting covered in food when I'm cooking :)

[Hailstorm]

You wouldn't believe how many food stained recipe book pages I have :rofl the mexican style lasagne one is the worst :rofl

[Mercurious]

I have a hardcover exercise book I used for home science in year 9 (dare I say 24 years ago??? holy moley!). Some are written, some are printed. Only my "keepers" go in there. I have some cook books and a couple of recipes I like on the net.

[Rinelle]

I have a couple of recipe books that have most of the standard stuff I make, then an A4 clear plastic pocket book for those old family recipies, or ones I find online and like.

[mamma]

i mostly keep them in my head

[mummabare]

In my head, and if I'm stuck I check on google.

[Stardust]

In my head too. And on scraps of paper stuck into an old book. And shoved in drawers and other rcipe books. I really need to do a sort!

[Hailstorm]

I have a few in my head as well

[Savannah]

We too have a mix of methods. I have some on the comp, some regulars in my head and a spiral bound 5 subject book with the little pockets in the dividing pages. I write some in there and the rest gets shoved into the pockets. I also have little cards from a recipe box I used to have but haven't been able to find since we moved here.

[Lee]

I have an exercise book too, that I have been sloooowly writing down my tried and true recipes in. I started it something like a year ago and I think there are 2 recipes in it so far.

Yeh.

I've got a dozen or so cookbooks but I never ever use the recipes in them. I just like to look at he pictures. I actually find it really fiddicult* to read most recipes, because of the list format... my head doesn't process it.

So when I write out recipes for myself, I do it in a way that I'll understand.

Mostly I just wing stuff and don;t use any recipes. Which is why I don't have many written down I guess.

Also I heart vegweb.com

And my laptop is always in the kitchen so it is tres easy to read a recipe right off the screen.

Yeh.


*This is obviously a typo, and I was going to fix it but then decided it was such a COOL typo that I WAY had to leave it.

[Lee]

You wouldn't believe how many food stained recipe book pages I have :rofl the mexican style lasagne one is the worst :rofl

Yah, I can always flip to the chocolate pudding recipe in my old housewifey cookbook in seconds because it is the only page that is completely brown from cocoa.

And if someone else is flipping through the book for me, they say, "What page?" and I just say, "the brown one".

Yeh.