Remember a few days ago when I said my fridge was empty? Well, it's still empty!
I have started my grocery list and I have a lot of cooking planned for the next few days. I needed some ideas for new meals, so I consulted my recipe binder:
I subscribe to a lot of magazines, and instead of keeping the magazines so I can refer back to them, I tear out the pages that I want to keep, and get rid of the magazine. I keep the recipes in this binder, and I have another folder for any exercise or home decorating items that I want to keep.
I started the binder with empty page protectors, and I can slide in any recipe that I tear out from a magazine or print from a website. If I try a recipe from a website without printing it, I try to hand write or print it and add it to my binder so I have everything in one place. I am normally not a "paper person" and I like to keep everything electronically, but I make an exception for my recipes.
My binder is currently organized into the following categories:
Salads
Appetizers
Chicken
Entrees ( everything with the exception of chicken)
Bread
Breakfast
Side Dishes
Dessert
Drinks
Tips (includes recipe substitutions, cooking times, grains 101)
Eventually I would like to further separate the Entree section into Pork, Beef, Non-Meat, etc, but I just haven't ever done it.
I decided to try two new recipes from my binder:
Dry-Rubbed Baby Back Ribs ( I have had this in my binder since July 2008!)
Crustless Spinach Quiche (this will be for my husband, too many eggs for me)
I will post reviews of the recipes in the next few days once we actually get to eat them.
How do you organize your recipes?
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