How To Organize Your Recipes...

Every Women needs a place to keep her recipes,
 quick and orderly...

To rely too heavily on the internet is not really wise.

How many times have we all experienced the internet being down or not

having the precise recipe we are looking for.

Let's think about for a moment what makes a good dish or combination 

of foods really special?

The taste of course, but the memories that are associated with certain

recipes are the best part of cooking;

Especially during holidays and birthdays and family get togethers.

Here is what I did to have my favorite recipes handy and organized and protected.

Firstly, purchase a box of plastic covering sheets,

Also purchase a few vinyl notebooks.

I did make a few different categories with my plan!

Here is where you put all your Main Course recipes and Side Dishes!

All my casserole dishes go into this one. All my delicious stews and soups.

Salads and Rice recipes.

I have so many Breads and Muffin recipes!

I find it easier to just pull out the notebook that has my Breads!

The staple of life! 

Have you tried my Pumpkin Bread recipe?

Really, it is the BEST ever...

It makes three loaves at a time, one to eat, and one to freeze, and one to give away!

Click Here

Now, in this little Large notebook is my Sweets!

I once heard a friend say that her first tooth she cut was a sweet tooth...

I do think that is a true statement

(As I read it on the Internet also)

(And I also heard they can't print anything that is not true)

Now, this is filled with so many special and dear to my heart recipes of

Cookies and cakes and cream puffs!

Your collection of recipe  should be very special and pretty looking.
 As they really are heirlooms for your family and children to pass on!

Taking care of them and preserving them is a wise thing to do!

You will need a bit of pretty paper and some craft scissors,

Sticky adhesive photo splits.

What I did was put out a large card table, and started going through my box of recipes.

Then I started arranging them, I put them in stacks of the categories I chose,

from the above notebooks.You can have as many as you want.
Or make it as easy and simple as you would like!

I used my printer and recopied some of them, others I just slid them

into a plastic sheet protector. 

It was so much fun to read over so many recipes.

Memories...

Now, this is where I made the decision on what recipes to keep and those to toss.

I asked myself if it was not family history or an heirloom to me, if I 

had not ever made this or had no future plans on doing so out it went.

This was a couple of weeks in the making, as I did take my time 

and enjoyed the process. 

So I encourage you ladies to think about making up your own,

Family and your Mothers or Grandmothers special recipe notebooks.

This project might be something to do this summer

  when it is too hot to go outside.

In my case I did do it this last winter when it was too cold to go outside!