Where do you keep your recipes?

[ButterSticks]

Where do you keep your recipes? Besides in your head! In a box? In a book/binder? In a folder on your computer?

I'm trying to cook more and am getting a lot of recipes from people so I want to keep them altogether!

Thanks!

[KAYLINDA]

I have a "recipe" folder on my desktop. Inside are folders with all the different categories of recipes. I have another folder called "recipes to try". Inside it also has folders with all the categories and I place new recipes I want to try in it. If they are good...then I transfer them to my recipe folder.

[honeypsweet]

sadly, I keep mine all over the place. In folders on the computer, printed copies in binders, on recipe cards, on little scraps of paper that I swear some day will become printed out and put in folders in binders but, never do, in my head.... I'm so not an organized person!!! LOL

[Mama Mangia]

2 laptops packed with recipes, 1 regular computer packed, tons of disks and cd's, and a complete library of books..................I think I need professional help.............

[TexasRose]

My most often-used ones end up in a binder. Those are the ones I print from online or from attachments that people send me.

I also have a recipe box that I have had since I was about 8 years old. I keep it out of sentimental value, but am in the process of typing out the recipes in it and transferring them to the binder.

Then I have all my cookbooks, and I have not figured out a good system for them, as I often have trouble remembering which book a certain recipe is in.

[Raquelita]

I keep them in clear pages in a binder, organized by type with little tab dividers . The binder sits with my other cookbooks on a shelf in our china cabinet.

[marymoomoo]

I mostly keep them in my head. As Rachel Ray says, eyeball it!

That being said, I do make a few things that you absolutely have to follow a recipe for (baking is a science ), and I keep some of those recipes in a notebook and others stuffed between the pages of a cookbook that has been passed down through the generations. My Grandmother's tea cake recipe still resides in the cookbook, probably inbetween the same pages she stuck it in 60 years ago!

[mtmomj]

I have the hand written recipe book from throughout the years from my grandma.

I also write new recipes on index cards and put little tabs on the top of some of them for sections and keep them in a little recipe box.

[Judilynn]

I still have my mother's recipe box, as well as a notebook that she and my grandmother handwrote recipes in. They are treasures to keep. But other than that I keep them in my head or on little scraps of paper here, there and everywhere. I would really love to get them organized and in one spot.

[phoenyxstarr]

Originally Posted by honeypsweet

sadly, I keep mine all over the place. In folders on the computer, printed copies in binders, on recipe cards, on little scraps of paper that I swear some day will become printed out and put in folders in binders but, never do, in my head.... I'm so not an organized person!!! LOL

I'm not alone!!!! I have recipes on the computer (most I got here ), some I have printed off & put in a 3-ring binder in document protectors (to protect them from splatters), and I get the Kraft Food & Family Magazine. I try to keep them all organized, but sadly, I cannot.