How Do You Keep Your Recipes?

I  have a favorite recipe website, allrecipes.com, which I get daily recipes emailed to me. When I want to try the recipe, I print it out. I have a small pile of untried recipes in my kitchen.

After selecting one or two of these printed recipes to try, I prepare my weekly grocery list.

Consequently, if a recipe sits untried too long in the pile,  it is likely to never be used. So I discard it.

Every dish that makes it to the dinner table gets voted on by the family to keep it or not. If not, the recipe printout goes in the trash.

Whenever I find a recipe that I like, I will add it to my collection.

I cherish my recipe box, (it was my late mother-in-law) and it holds only my favorite recipes. I feel that in a small way, I honor her and what a good cook she was, by using her box for just what she would want.

Obviously, for the recipes that get thrown out, it’s OK. With the Internet today, if you need to find it again, it’s almost always possible.

 

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Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

2 Comments

  1. Janet Barclay on October 5, 2017 at 8:27 am

    It sounds like you’re very disciplined! No matter what system I use, I always end up with a bunch of recipes that I’m probably never going to make.

    • Janet Schiesl on October 5, 2017 at 5:07 pm

      Yes, I am disciplined but mostly because I like cooking new things and if I don’t plan ahead I never have the ingredients I need for a new recipe. I still end up with recipes I never make.

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