How do you organize recipes from different sources?

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I'm an administrative nightmare!

I have a few cookbooks that I use, and keep them on my shelves in the kitchen. More often than not, however, I'm finding and trying recipes either in magazines or on the internet, and I just am at a loss for a good way to keep track of them. I end up keeping the whole magazine - stacks and stacks - or tearing something out and having paper clutter.

I need a system!

Thanks in advance for your advice!

[magdala]

I use pinterest to organize my online recipes. Most magazines post recipes from prior issues on their website. I will pin these to my pinterest. I have several to-try folders (desserts-to-try, breakfast-to-try) and several favorites folders.

[aimeedyan]

I, too, use Pinterest for almost all my recipe organization. And then once I blog it, it's stored on my blog to be found later. {which is actually why I started to blog in the first place - pre Pinterest}

If a magazine doesn't have their content online so I can pin it, I just keep it around until I've tried the few recipes I wanted to try and then toss it.

[smiley]

I also use Pinterest. If the recipe is in a magazine I find it online.

You can check out my Pinterest (link in siggy) to see how I have the recipes organized on there.

[dorothyinAus]

I have a shelf full of cookbooks and a binder for recipes from other sources. If I find something I want to make in a magazine or online, I copy it on paper and put the paper in my recipe binder, alphabetically by recipe title.

I have a notebook of calorie counts for my recipes as well, but have taken to writing the totals in the cookbooks or pages I copy the recipes to and only keeping the notebook for cookbooks I do not want to write in for whatever reason.

[sporky]

I have several shelves of cookbooks and a shelf of old issues of Food & Wine and Fine Cooking. For single recipes that I either print out from the internet or cut out from a magazine (that doesn't have more than a couple recipes that I want, otherwise I just keep the whole magazine), I have a large box that I categorize and store them in. A few summers ago, I went through ALL of my cookbooks, recipes, and magazines making a master list of the recipes that I used and wanted to try. I then cataloged everything and created a binder that lists the names of each recipe under the appropriate heading: Chicken-oven, Crockpot-vegetarian, Fruit-based dessert, etc. Beside the name of each recipe I added a numerical code to which source it came from: 21 (JC's Mastering the Art of French Cooking), 25 (Pinterest), 2 (Food and Wine), etc. There's even an index in the very back that decodes the numbers and their source. ........ Yes, I am this anal about my recipes, lol. It was a lot of work, but now it's super organized and really easy to find the exact recipes that I want whenever I need them!

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Mar 24, 2013 8:22:23 GMT -5 sporky said:

I have several shelves of cookbooks and a shelf of old issues of Food & Wine and Fine Cooking. For single recipes that I either print out from the internet or cut out from a magazine (that doesn't have more than a couple recipes that I want, otherwise I just keep the whole magazine), I have a large box that I categorize and store them in. A few summers ago, I went through ALL of my cookbooks, recipes, and magazines making a master list of the recipes that I used and wanted to try. I then cataloged everything and created a binder that lists the names of each recipe under the appropriate heading: Chicken-oven, Crockpot-vegetarian, Fruit-based dessert, etc. Beside the name of each recipe I added a numerical code to which source it came from: 21 (JC's Mastering the Art of French Cooking), 25 (Pinterest), 2 (Food and Wine), etc. There's even an index in the very back that decodes the numbers and their source. ........ Yes, I am this anal about my recipes, lol. It was a lot of work, but now it's super organized and really easy to find the exact recipes that I want whenever I need them!

Will you please come to my house? :-)

I think that this is sort of what I'm looking to do. Maybe I replace the box with a filing cabinet (I have some extra there). I feel like I want hard copies since I would end up printing them again and again.

[rileym2010]

I also use Pinterest for all recipes I find online and have them separated into different boards according to category. All of my cookbooks are on a book case and I keep a folder for magazine clippings.

[stever]

I keep magazines in file boxes in my kitchen - keep printed recipes there too, not very organized. I also keep 2 files in my favorites on my laptop - 'recipes to try' and 'recipes.' The recipes folder has sub-folders for desserts, apps, French food etc.