Recipe for Organization
Smart Solutions : Episode SSL-803 -- More Projects »
Event planner Denise Vivaldo cooks up ideas for keeping recipes and cookbooks in order.
- Take 15 minutes once a week to sort through magazines and collect recipes. The goal is to make them all uniform in size. You may want to make copies of recipes from the newspaper or off food labels, then reduce them so that they will fit on an index card.
Store recipes one of three ways--in an accordion file, in an extra big file box or in a three-ring binder with plastic page sleeves. Simply glue the recipe to an index card and slip the card into the sleeve (figure A).You can also keep smaller cookbooks in a sleeve.
One way to use expensive or cherished cookbooks more is to buy a clear plastic protective holder. If you don't want to buy a stand, just place a piece of clear plastic over the pages to protect them (figure B).Try color coding by food type (meat, fish, veggies, desserts) for even more organization.Keep untried recipes (five to six at a time) on a clipboard (convenient for shopping and delegating cooking duties). Try them before adding them to the binder, so that only tried and true recipes are kept.You might consider using categories such as "safe for children."Attach a photo of the recipe, either from the magazine or from when you made it, onto the page with the recipe.Create a file for most frequently used recipes.
Guests Professional Event Planner, Food Fanatics / Author
PO Box 351088
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-836-3520
Fax: 310-836-3422
E-mail:
dvivaldo@earthlink.net
Website:
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