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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Halex on May 05, 2012, 12:18:55 am
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A strange dilema. There are too many yummy things to make.
Had a little free time yesterday & started to go through reviews of the books we have. I found a few I had written & wrote great reviews on.
Now why havent I made them again?? I think I just forget about them and of course cook new recipes.
How does eveyone track their absolute favs so they dont get forgotten.
My mission is to make one of these recipes each week & maybe create a file or something for these outstanding recipes.
Any suggestions? Or am I the only person who forgets yummy recipes.
H :)
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Your right Halex, there are far to many great recipes. I don't have many recipe books. Most of my recipes come from here or the net somewhere. I print out what I like the sound off and put them in a folder. Once I have tried them I will either keep them or throw them away if no good :)
I don't have a great filing system but it works pretty well.
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Hally, I sit here and go through and print off recipes every day.
I then try them, and file in a folder with clear plastic sleeves.
I have 3 folders, mains, baking biscuits / cakes, entrees.
I also joined Pepperplate.com to save recipes from taste.
Robyn
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I mainly revisit recipes when I am having visitors and want something tried and true for them or I'm in a hurry and just want to whip up a meal. I have my box of tried and liked recipes and for the books, I write every recipe I do from them in the very back of the book (there is usually a bank page back there). If I didn't like the recipe it will get a cross otherwise I know it was OK. Variety is the spice of life and because there are so many recipes to try, I like having something different most of the time.
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I am trying to stay environmentally friendly & be paperless, but its not working.
I put recipes into evernote, maybe I need to create a file on their for the best recipes, plus a file for cookbook recipes.
My problem is I make a recipe, love it make it twice then forget about it. Of course I have my basic everday ones that ds likes, but ones that I have done for DH & I dont get redone.
I think I am going to have to work hrough my tm recipe books & create a file on them in evernote. I like the dea of writing at the back of the book but I am funny about my recipe books, i get upset if food is splattered on them, let alone writing on them.
Need to really think this one out as I am not re-cooking amazing recipes.
This week I am going to do the Almond chicken from dinner spinners, apparantly I loved it.
H :)
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I have this problem as well, I've made some really great recipes off this forum and cannot remember what they are. I really must get organised with some sort of system. I tried one of the electronic cook books, but felt it didn't really work too well for me.
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Marina, glad I am not alone.
Lets hope we can get some good system organised :)
H :)
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next time we go to the park for a get together, I will bring my spiral bound book of favourite recipes to show you. It takes up less room than a lever arch file, and I use it every day.
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Thanks CP that would be great & there would be lots of recipes in there.
H :)
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With the TMX recipes, it goes on Evernote...if i make it more than once and is a keeper, goes in living cookbook. For recipes from books I have discovered putting removable 3M tabs with the name of recipe on the top of the page works a treat.
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Hally/Halex, I'm in exactly the same boat as you :-))
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My mum always said to me to note any recipe you cook out of 5 and write it or type it on the recipe so you have your own rating systm a to if it was great just mediocre or terrible.. Woks for me and with things like evernote you can categorize any one ripe seval times ie one recipe could be moroccon, chicken, om such and such a cookbook and number 5 rating.. I have started linking existing recipes into cookbook names or recipe author names as well.. Just makes it so much more organised and easier to find .. Anyway works for me..
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Newbie here. I print recipes off the internet and if a recipe is a success I copy it onto my Excel template (large print, my eyes aren't what they used to be!) I laminate it and put in one of my magazine racks, I have one for mains, desserts, baking etc. When I'm stuck for ideas I pull out my laminated pages and choose one. I can wipe the page if it gets dirty in the kitchen. Works for me.
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Ella, does Excel work better than Word?
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Cuilidh,
I'm useless with Word but advanced with Excel - thus my choice. Copying all recipes into my template makes them all look uniform and easy to follow and I can make my own adjustments to suit my taste. Normally when I cook something new we all have an input into it and decide there and then what needs changing - provided it was something worthwhile cooking it again. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 times but normally I end up with something everybody enjoys.
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I use an iPad and iphone app called 'Paprika'. When I find a recipe to try from this forum or the internet, I copy and paste it into a category called 'to try'. If we love the result, my dh and I officially claim 'its going straight to the pool room' (you needed to see the movie The Castle to see the humor in this) and then it gets moved from 'to try' category to whatever category applicable to the recipe eg 'cakes' or whatever. I got rid of my ring binders as it was getting out of hand ( i was too slack to file them) and I love the paperless aspect. I still buy magazines occasionally and rip out the ones I want to try and keep these in one plastic folder/sleeve (so I'm not completely paperless), but mainly browse the net for recipes these days. The paprika app is awesome to use in the kitchen the screen stays on, and I can edit the recipes and save them if needed. Then it syncs to my phone so I can see any recipe while I'm out when I need ingredients. So now I have my digital evolving cook book which I browse through when I want to plan meals. You can rate recipes, export them or email them to friends and even include a photo. It's not for every body but I love this system and never forget the best recipes as I always have the pool room to go to :)
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Hally you can add a tag in the third box at the top when inputting in Evernote. Just type and press enter then later you can search by tag words. I have started tagging with "to try" as I put recipes in but never make them lol.
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My recipes have several tags each lol
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I have folders and folders of recipes printed out and taken from magazines. Not very environmentally friendly but great to browse through. I would like to have a spiral book like CP's. Maybe CP will bring it along to the WA weekend away.
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next time we go to the park for a get together, I will bring my spiral bound book of favourite recipes to show you. It takes up less room than a lever arch file, and I use it every day.
could you please bring this to the weekend retreat if possible as l would love to see it too
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Thank you everyone.
I have purchased paprika app, hoping it works better for me than evernote. Hope to be able to have a file for recipes i like from forum & my books.
See how it goes.
H :)
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Ok, have just started with paprika. Lots to do to set up, but I think its the best so far.
I have my menu plan fr the week up. Linked to the recipe or where the recipe comes from.
At this stage only putting recipes on we love & will use again. Slowly taking them of evernote.
This mornng I have gone through FFS & listed under the category FFS recipe & pg number if I want to make again. So each time I make a recioe from this book or any book, it will be under the cookbook title, recipe name & pg number. I might even take a photo of the recipe & add it. Lots of work, slow process but when its done it will be great, just what I want.
Thank you Kulsha
H :)
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Paprika is goid but you cant add more than one photo so if you have step by step with photo recipes you cant add them and recipes only so e erything else needs to be somewhere lse.. Main plus is you cn use paprika off line but definatly limited imo.
Hally it would be uicker to recopie hem from the forum via the browser window than copying all from evernote..
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With the TMX recipes, it goes on Evernote...if i make it more than once and is a keeper, goes in living cookbook. For recipes from books I have discovered putting removable 3M tabs with the name of recipe on the top of the page works a treat.
Is there a way of importing the recipe directly from the forum into Living Cookbook . . . or do you have to type it out? Haven't quite figured it out yet ???
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That's great news Halex! Persevere with it, it takes awhile to set up but will save you heaps of time in the future. I've been using it for months and use it daily now and it makes life soooo much easier. I enjoy adding more to my 'to try' category, I just roughly copy paste the whole recipe in the description area and only spend time to tidy and edit (and assign a category) it if it's a 'keeper'.
Most of the recipes I follow are pretty easy so haven't found this a major prob that you only can add one pic. But it would be awesome if they upgraded the app to include this too!
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Goldfish you can copy and paste directly from the forum, or any internet site, into Living Cookbook. From my limited trial with LC I remember learning how to do this from one of their tutorials that you can access via the program or their web site. It is very easy to transfer the recipes, but I found editing the transferred recipes very frustrating, which is why I didn't buy the program in the end.
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Hello from a newbie.
I am bamboozled with recipes and only studied forum for 3 weeks while waiting to join. Already forgotten where to find one or 2 I liked. So I can imagine as long standing members it must be so much worse.
Can't print as no printer at home.
Probably buy paprika tmro. never bought an app before and only have old pc outside, not a mac.
Will let u know how I get on.
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Goldfish you can copy and paste directly from the forum, or any internet site, into Living Cookbook. From my limited trial with LC I remember learning how to do this from one of their tutorials that you can access via the program or their web site. It is very easy to transfer the recipes, but I found editing the transferred recipes very frustrating, which is why I didn't buy the program in the end.
Cuilidh - Thank you!! I'll go back and try again . . I'm sure the penny will drop eventually!! ;D ;D - and thanks for the heads up re the editing . .
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GF - have you purchased the full version of the program or are you using the trial version at the moment? I'd be interested to hear how you get on.
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Cuilidh . .it's the full version . .I'll certainly let you know, but it does take me a while to understand and become comfortable with new programs :-)) ATM I'm mainly interested in the having the forum recipes, etc. in there
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Faffa and Courton are both very familiar and happy with LC, so I am sure they will be only too pleased to give you hints and tips if you need them.