Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Organize your Recipe Collection

This piece is for the talented home cooks and the interested chefs-to-be. How many times have you been in a scenario where you’re unable to find the recipe of a dish just when you decide to prepare it? Either it’s your own old concoction that you’ve forgotten or a traditional recipe that’s been handed down from generations; but now it’s out of sight. Such situations can be avoided with different ways of recipe organization.

Recipes are like treasures to people like you, so either create a recipe cookbook or file them up. A good organization tool would help you divide them into categories like cuisine, food types and other genres. You could also box all your recipes and catalog them with dividers. The computer also gives you the option of saving your recipes in a document. You could also save it online so you don’t lose any of them in case of a system crash and this will allow you to share these recipes with other cooking enthusiasts.

There are small ways to organize your life and make it more simple and systematic, so the next time you decide to prepare a favorite dish you needn’t go hunting for the recipe.

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