Needing Some Recipe Help
December 4th, 2008 | 
Author: What do you do with your recipes? If you find one that you like, do you copy it and put it in your recipe book or box?
I get three wonderful cooking magazines – Taste of Home, Kraft Food & Family, and Every Day with Rachael Ray. (Kraft is a wonderful free magazine that you can subscribe to here.)
About once a week, maybe more, I try a new recipe. Sometimes the recipe is a new twist on an old favorite. Other times it’s totally new.
At least 90% of the time, my hubby says that they’re keepers – meaning he likes them. But how should I keep track of these “keepers”?
I’ve transferred a couple of them to my recipe book, but is there a better way?
Usually when I try a new recipe, it’s because I want something new. Something we haven’t had before. I take a few minutes to browse my magazines for the perfect meal hoping that it satisfies my taste buds.
Oh, and in case your answer has anything to do with menu planning, I don’t menu plan. I tried it before and don’t like it. I can’t do it. I think it has something to do with how I can’t pack “lightly” for vacation. I have to take half the closet. How am I supposed to know on Sunday what I’m going to feel like wearing on Thursday? Same for cooking. What I think I want on Sunday definitely isn’t the same by the time Thursday comes around. So, yeah, can’t do it.
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Good question! I was given a blank recipe book with lined pages and tabs for each category (and it’s a small binder so I can move things around). I really like it. I used to hand-copy new recipes to it, but 4 kids later I find myself just cutting the recipe out and taping it to one of the blank pages.
If you don’t want to do that to the recipe book you already have, maybe get (or make) one just for these new recipes?
Sunny, I thought of cutting out the recipes. I just wonder if I’d like looking through a chopped up magazine later for newer recipes. Sigh. What a dilemma.
i cut mine out and stick them on old-style photo pages in a three ring binder.
you’re already ahead of me, tho–many of my recipes are still untried!