Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Suggestions and Complaints => Topic started by: obbie on April 16, 2010, 10:19:43 am
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:) Hi, is there any way to save favourite recipes here into your own folder.
for example, like on taste.com.au
you can save recipes, and file into sections, example,
main meals, chocolate, cakes, slices, soups etc.
I love this site, and use it daily, just an idea.
thanks,
Robyn
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Hi robyn, was this meant to be a pm? :)
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oops - no brazen - that ? was to alert MM to the fact that there was a query from obby ;D ;D ;D ;D
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sorry, that was a query.
just wanted to know if you could save recipes here.
i will have to print out my favourites.
Robyn
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Master Moderator may be able to ask his friends in high places to sort something out. We weren't able to print out recipes easily until somebody asked
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ahhh ok, i was very confused LOL
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Think that's a great idea Obbie! ;) :-*
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hello to all. Let me see what we can come up with...
Thanks for raising the point...
MM
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Thanks MM :-* :-*
As the site grows, having favourites and maybe some option to flag recipes to try would be great!
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:) Thanks MM so much.
Robyn
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I have a system for my TMX recipes and I don't recommend it. I have bits in files everywhere. When I see a recipe I want to make I print it and it goes into a file. I then see it a few days later and print it again and so on. The file is ginormous! After I have made the dish I photograph it and transfer the recipe to a more organised file and put a print of the photo onto it.
Certainly not saving the trees. Half the time I can't find the recipe I want and print it off again. The only ones I can find easily are the tried and true ones.
Any help gratefully received, such as storing the recipes within the forum.
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Cookie, that is one of the beauties of the recipe software. But if you don't want to go down that track, you could just copy the text into a word document and then print them as you want to make them instead of in advance. Then once made, tweak any changes or notes, add the photo and then print.
There doesn't seem to be any facility to store recipes within the forum.
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I used to do that Cathy and then spent time printing them, or was in a rush and didn't have time or even worse DD was on the computer and as it is hers I try not to barge in too often. It was when she was doing her Masters that I changed my method of saving recipes. It's messy but at the moment controllable. Thanks.
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Russell is creating a Favourites Recipe Book online for us. Go to this post (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3447.0)
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ROFL!! Cookie, your system sounds like mine! The print offs pile up, then have someone coming over, so I quickly gather them all and tuck them away somewhere then do it all over again! Started sorting through some clutter the other day and couldnt believe the number of piles of recipes I found from the forum :-)) :o
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I have about 6 display folders that I use to store my recipes. I save to my recipes folder and print as well, then file in the appropriate folder.
I sometimes have the dining table covered in recipes if I don't get around to filing them!
Yes, I've done the quick grab and stash when visitors come!
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I have just gone through my huge file that I have been collecting all my forum recipes and storing in for the past couple of years. The file has gone from being a small display file to a huge bulging one that I can't clip together and weighs a ton as I add to it each day. Then I had a brainwave... All the favourite recipes that have a star on them or that I make often have been photocopied/printed off. I was very selective - it had to be a favourite = 91. There is a recipe on both the front and back page, and I have sorted them roughly as you would find in a recipe book. I have also typed up a Contents page at the beginning, and a weight Conversions page at the front that I always use. The next thing I did was go to Officeworks and get them to bind it for me, and I added a coloured cardboard cover front and back, and a clear plastic cover to protect. They made 5 copies for me including the original, and it came to $50. How cool is that - My Favourite Recipes, Volume 1.
I didn't bother typing a new clean recipe up myself as I like to know the person who posted it, and I like the comments underneath.
I figure the next book will take a couple of years.
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What a great idea CP63. I have all mine i a folder with comments etc on them and even a photo if I can. I think I might be a copy cat.
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That would be a compliment cookie :D I don't know why I hadn't thought of it earlier? I think I will also do a Conventional Favourites as well for recipes that I have to do the old way. Would be a nice thing to give our DD's (and maybe DS) if they ever leave home. Its so neat and a great feeling to open up a book solely dedicated to all the delicous recipes that our family enjoy.
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That would be a compliment cookie :D I don't know why I hadn't thought of it earlier? I think I will also do a Conventional Favourites as well for recipes that I have to do the old way. Would be a nice thing to give our DD's (and maybe DS) if they ever leave home. Its so neat and a great feeling to open up a book solely dedicated to all the delicous recipes that our family enjoy.
Great idea CP of making a favorite Thermomix cookbook.You realize that you would have to buy TM's to go with the cookbooks when your DD's and DS leave home. :D
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we have already bought one for DD23 21st pressie about a year and a half ago (which we are fortunate to have in the kitchen also) and DD20 is turning 21 this year and wants one to be rainchecked for when she leaves home at the end of this year... our kids have taken to these machines like ducks to water and don't want to leave home without one (so anything I can do to make the transition as smooth as possible...)
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That's a great idea CP, our folders are getting a little heavy and some of my recipe printouts are getting tatty around the edges too. I thought of printing out fresh copies of my all time very favourite recipes and getting DH to laminate them for me, 2 per sheet like you have done. Easy to remove and take to the kitchen without getting messy. You are right, something definitely has to be done after 2 years or more. Lucky kids too with Mum sending them on their way with a TMX and a family recipe book.
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we have already bought one for DD23 21st pressie about a year and a half ago (which we are fortunate to have in the kitchen also) and DD20 is turning 21 this year and wants one to be rainchecked for when she leaves home at the end of this year... our kids have taken to these machines like ducks to water and don't want to leave home without one (so anything I can do to make the transition as smooth as possible...)
Wow what great parents you are CP :o Really useful 21st presents and you get a backup TM in the kitchen while they are still living at home. ;)
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JD I wouldn't worry about laminating as that would take up so much room in a file. OK you can wipe them down when they get food spills, but when you have a book like this you can write on it with tips as time goes by - who cares, thats good especially in a cookbook, and it is very compact. When the book gets tatty, all that needs to be done is the binder ripped off and re-photocopied, or you can go to the trouble of typing up the recipes.
I like to keep the authors name on the recipe so when people compliment my food, I like to say "this is so and so's recipe". Its almost like they are just about sitting at the table also. :) (such are the characters on the forum) does anyone else feel that way also? Seems to make a meal more memorable also if there is a notation of some sort.
My DD's XBF's mum used to write a quick notation of something special about the day they tried that recipe eg. Baby Frankenstein played basketball and got Fairest and Best...
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Yes I see your point there CP.
Like you I also like to mention who posted the recipe and I make a note that I have made it for so and so and the date too. Would hate to forget I'd given it to them before and serve it up again (unless they specifically asked for it of course).
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The issue of saving, copying, printing and storing the amount of information that we are able to access is always problematic. I agree with CP - laminating takes up so much extra storage particularly with multiple pages. There is so much information posted by the wonderful forum members both here and on the various websites and blogs, the issue of copying from the blog/website can be time consuming. I have found snippy a wonderful resource - for those of you who think I am speaking another language, Snippy is a small program that can grab any image from your computer screen. Rather than using print screen and capturing the whole screen, Snippy can be used by dragging the mouse to highlight a section as small or large as you need and copying and pasting just what you need. The only issue, what you have copied saves as an image so you are unable to edit or make changes. Apart from it being a valuable resource when preparing work for classes I have used it all the time to copy recipes and info from your various blogs and websites. Have a play and you will probably find so many uses for the snippy tool - it is a free download, follow this link -
- http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
I have attached an example of this screen and posted it for you, have a play when you open the document!! I hope that I haven't confused anyone, given this was a topic about saving recipes. Have a wonderful AUSTRALIA DAY. :) :D
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That's amazing Robyn.
CP63 have you also printed off all the comments with each recipe? I'm getting all fired up to do this.
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Forgot to reply to your question CP in my ramblings re Snippy - I too feel the same way re comments. We often have a conversation about forum members as if they had just left the kitchen - JD, CP, Cookie, CC, Jo, Zan etc, etc (apologies to all those members whose names did not jump onto this page), said that with this dish and so it goes.. I often print a few comments and attached them to the related dish in the recipe books. As you can imagine no recipe book looks very tidy with bits of paper showing here and there. :) :)
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I have an acrylic recipe book holder so don't have to worry about spills I got it at Howards Storage about $20 fit the TM books perfectly
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We've got to the stage where the mob say 'who's recipe is this?' As you say there are certain names that the family know now and they are unseen friends. I find I often remark to the family that things are happening in certain places of the world, they now know that my 'thermomix friends' have mentioned it on the forum.
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Totally the same here cookie, our family and friends will make a statement re - how did you know that? - my reply being - person x, y or z from the forum. We now refer to the forum as that T planet - T standing for thermie, terrific, tantalising, tremendous and time consuming!!!!! :D :D
Off the thread topic again I know!!!!! :D :D
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I just printed off the first page, however for a recipe where people have tweaked i usually just made a note along the side or wherever applicable. I've only made Baf's chicken dish one way, but that one I would probably do an additional page on the reverse with all the suggested variations. What started as photocopying a few of my favourite recipes for someone snowballed as I kept coming across another favourite that I thought she would appreciate also. I had a good little collection there that I thought my DD's would really like them also and I thought the lady across the road who doesn't use her TM much might find some recipes in there to spur her on, but when I started photocopying again it was just so time consuming that I gave up very quickly. I did all the collating in about 4 hours which was long enough as otherwise it becomes a daunting task if you are going to make a perfect job of it. Thats where taking it to someone like Officeworks for the final bit was good, as they photocoped the whole lot and bound in 10 minutes ;D
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This is definitely on. Some recipes I have written all over, I will leave them as they are as I need all the notes. I may do a couple extras too.
Thanks again CP63.
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while checking a few online recipe books I came across http://www.blurb.com/ site that you can design and print your own cook book with photo's. very nice!
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I have bought the "Living Cookbook" software by Radium Technologies. I will not manage without it. It is great to collect recipes change them and also add your own notes. In addition, it gives you cost, nutrition, shopping and menus and so much more information. If you really want to use it to its full benefit, you need to imput a lot of information initially but once you get it going, you will not live without it.
If I need a recipe, I print it from the programme, use the recipe and even throw the printed recipe away once I complete it. I have a special folder withing Living Cookbook which I call Thermomix.Any recipe involving Thermomix is filed in there. I even subdivide the folder into separate section, soups, entrees, desserts etc. No big bulky files, no cookbooks.
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I have to admit I really do love Living Cookbook as well.
I think when my kids leave home with their TM I will just purchase them a copy of Living Cookbook and export all my recipes - same as what my brother is in the process of doing. That way they get all my notes, tips, changes etc
I also love it as I can put the author in there and also link to the web page. All my forum and blog recipes are linked so I can pop back should I ever need too while cooking :)
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:-* wow, my thread is still going.
at the moment i just print the recipies, and put them into a plastic folder, but I like the idea of snippy. Also of printing and binding them into a book.
I have a binder, so that could work well for me.
i'll keep watching for more ideas.
Robyn
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I just use the screen capture that I have on my computer keyboard if I want to get anything from the net. It's the button next to the F12.
You hold down Ctrl and press PrintScreen which copies the screen and then open up Word and click Ctrl V, which is paste.
It opens as a picture file in word, but you can crop it, make it larger or whatever you want to do.
I've just bought Living Cookbook as I've had a clean up of my bookshelf and rid myself of about 35 cook books!! I just don't use them. I have one shelf of cook books now and am not buying any more. You heard that here..... ;D Please remind me later....
I also love the idea of blurb. What gorgeous books they have there that others have made!
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This is an old thread but I wanted to share what I do with my recipes, because I'm so tired of printing out one at a time, and until I can afford an iPad, what I do is I saving my recipes on tastebook.com
You can just copy and paste ingredients and recipes, mark them private so as not infringe copyright and then order your recipe book in a practical binder! The website classifies your recipes. It's almost like blurb.com only easier.
I like it because I can get together a bunch of recipes from different sites and I just keep the ones I truly like. Plus you can easily add more pages...
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and this is also a topic recently in My Recipe Box (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=5846.0).
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Hi All,
I found a great piece of software on the net when I bought my TM knowing that I would be trying and testing lots of new recipes and that I would go mad trying to find them again (as it always happens to me) so I downloaded Recipe Center, its free no trial or anything like that, and then you have your own program where you can put the ingredients, procedures, your own notes, photos, and you can update them whenever you want. Also can print the recipes whenever you are going to make them so it makes it a lot easier! ;) I love it! Probably a bit of a pain when you're starting to use it as you have to introduce all the data but well worth it in the end.
http://www.recipecentersoftware.com/ if you want to try it out.
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I use living cookbook as well - it's great for collecting recipes I've found online (such as this forum) as I can cut and paste directly into the software without having to retype anything. I have the software on two computers with the database on a shared drive so I can access it anywhere (e.g. sitting in bed capturing all the great recipes on this forum !)
I don't have an ipad but to avoid printing recipes out when I need them, I email the recipe from Living Cookbook to myself and open it on my iphone (more kitchen friendly!). Obviously this only works if you have a phone which will receive email :-))
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Does anyone know where in Australia you can buy the Living Cookbook?
Thanks :)
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Here you are KatieJ - it is actually a computer program that you store your recipes in - I have to admit that I do love it ;) consider it the best money I have spent - especially as I am trying to get rid of my cookbooks and also stop printing out recipes. I just take my laptop to the kitchen until I get a tablet for the kitchen!
http://www.livingcookbook.com/ (http://www.livingcookbook.com/)
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Thanks Faffa! It looks great and definitely something I would love. I like organisation! And I print way too many recipes from the internet and would love to stop wasting so much paper. I think it might be my next purchase and my next project.
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I bought it and then set aside some time on the weekend to set it all up how I wanted it and remove the recipes from it that I knew I just wouldn't use and now I probably use LC everyday. Either to add to it or look up a recipe or for my menu planning. You can also set it out into categories that you want etc ;)
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i bought living cookbook last year and have used it maybe twice 8)