How do you store your recipes?

queen_of_string

I have mine in a folder called recipes on the laptop. I have also discovered this is a great place to hide saved documents from my son. He wont go in there and certainly not in the "complicated" section. ;-) All mums need their secrets. HTH someone.

thriftlady_2

I have loads of cookbooks many of which I never use. There's a cupboard in our garage full of cookbooks I have banished because I don't use them. I'm always bringing them back to the house though, because it seems I do actually use them, or at least enjoy reading them:rolleyes:

Recipes I use over and over again are written out and stored in an A4 ring binder in my kitchen. These are almost all baking recipes or other things that require measuring.

Queen of String I like your sig btw. Looks like we've been reading the same books. If you like what Michael Pollan has to say then you will like Alice Waters' The Art of Simple Food. She's an American chef -very well respected over there and the British edition of this book is now available. It is an excellent all-round cookbook.

kittykat500

I've got a Google bookmarks account with different folders for meat, fish, desserts etc. Can use it on my laptop then. I used to print off recipes but find they take up too much space and get all manky.

EagerLearner

Blairweech wrote: »

My recipes are kept in a lever arch file, in polypockets. As I get recipes, they're typed up properly and popped in there. At the moment the file is organised into 'soups', 'starters', 'meat' etc. Think I might have to expand and have seperate folders for each section though (especially dessert recipes - I've got a *lot* of those ).

I'll probably re-do them all at some point, right now after I cook something I write (in pencil) all over the recipe - things like 'too much onion', 'use fresh herbs' etc, so it's getting a bit messy.

This is exactly what I do :T 2 ring binder, lots copied and pasted from MSE, then printed and placed in a plastic punched wallet. I also have a 'Slow Cooker' section too.

Olliebeak

I've got lots stored in a Recipes Folder within 'My Documents' and then subdivided into Starters, Mains, Pasta, Baking (biscuits, fruit cakes) etc. My favourites are printed off, put into plastic pockets and kept in one of those clear fronted presentation folders. Very easily wiped clean if anything gets splashed on it .

Butterfly_Brain

I keep mine in a file with dividers

trying-very-trying

I thought I had all my recipes saved on the computer, well they were saved.....Until the hard drive failed and had to be retored to factory settings.
We've been living on beans and toast for a week since :rotfl:

Olliebeak

trying-very-trying wrote: »

I thought I had all my recipes saved on the computer, well they were saved.....Until the hard drive failed and had to be retored to factory settings.
We've been living on beans and toast for a week since :rotfl:

Oh dear - what a timely message for us all to do back-up copies of what matters to us the most :rolleyes:.

Naseby

Lots of great ideas on this thread. Thank you all very much.
Think I am going to put all my recipes on the PC in Word and print them off as I use them and then keep them in Ring Binders. Feels a bit like a life's work but am sure I will get through them all if I do a few at a time. If I do it this way I can write comments on them because I don't like "defacing" books even although they are mine!

Sorry you have lost all yours trying-very-trying. As Olliebeak says it really pays to do back-ups of everything that matters a lot to us.

Thanks again for everyone's contribution.

EagerLearner

Hi Naseby - well worth a few minutes of printing and popping into plastic wallets - will last ages and give you lovely homemade meals. Easy to clean and easy to re-print if friends or family want the recipe.

PS: I recommend you choose a font and a font size and stick with it all the way through. I started with swirly fancy writing and then got annoyed and changed to Arial size 12 all the way through as easier to read...