You may remember, back in April I set a goal to widdle down my cookbook collection (See Post). I'm making progress, but still have a ways to go. One of the challenges I came across was the best means to keep the recipes I love while still leting go of the paper.
One of the solutions I found was MYRECIPES.COM (link here). In addition, to the many cookbooks in my pantry were stacks of torn out pages from magazines, mostly Sunset or Coastal Living or Cooking Light. At MYRECIPES.COM, you can find all recipes printed in these magazines and many more! The coolest part of MYRECIPES.COM is that you can create your own recipe file - you simply type in your recipe and there it resides in digital cyberland, ready for you to access it at any time from any where in the world. I've started several personalized recipe files on MYRECIPES.COM - one for all of my treasured family recipes, another for Christmas favorites, and others for various themes. This will come in so handy when I'm on vacation or visiting family and want to cook one of my favorite specialties. You can also create menus and shopping lists! But wait, there's more ... you can even access MYRECIPE.COM if you have a smartphone or an iPad / tablet (you lucky duck). How handy is this when you're at the grocery store, see a sweet deal and wonder what you might make with the item and what other ingredients you need to go along with that sweet deal?!
The other great tool I'm using to keep those favorite recipes until I can populate my e-recipe file, is my Neatreceipts Scanner and the Neatworks data management tool. This little device is the best organizing tool in my arsonal (see previous post here). I simply scan that recipe and capture it in my computer on a pdf file. Upload it to Google documents or Dropbox or whatever database on the Cloud that you like, and there it is - available to you 24/7 from any computer, smartphone or iPad/tablet (again, you lucky duck). Imagine the possibilities ... you are visiting with your grandkids and they plead for your special Monkey Bread. Alas you don't have your recipe box with you - but you do have access to the internet :) Sweet, tasty monkey bread is only a few keystrokes away and the kids think you are the best and coolest Grandma in the whole world!
I still am keeping a binder with all of the handwritten recipes given to me by my grandmothers, my mom and mother-in-law. This keepsake binder is stored away with all of my other treasured memories so that the next generation will have them.
How do you store your favorite recipes? Have you integrated the digital world into your kitchen?
