Whether or not you’re a serious cook chances are you will find yourself wanting to make a favorite recipe.
Quite often the challenge can be finding it in an efficient manner.
Recipes are part of a family’s history and most of us have handwritten cards, passed down, from mothers and grandmothers along with favorite cookbooks, recipes torn from magazines and printed from the computer. Keeping track of all the different shapes and sizes can feel overwhelming.
When it comes to getting them all organized, Charlotte Steill,
Simply Put Organizing, says her best advice is to find one method that works for you and stick to it.
Here are five solutions she says will appeal to everyone from the sentimental cook to the high tech chef.
Solution One: Mark the pages. Use book darts to mark your favorite recipes in any cookbook.
Book darts are small metal clips that won’t wrinkle or mark pages and won’t fall off.
They come in three colors so you can distinguish recipes you have tried from ones you haven’t or appetizers from main dishes.
Post-its also work well for marking as the name of the recipe can be written in plain view. Great for serious cook book collectors.
