I have a program called macgourmet which I love yes it involves copying recipes over but it is a godsend, it also makes text clippings from any website. It has "Chef View" which enlarges the recipe on your screen to be viewed from a distance (say bench to cupbaord) from your laptop (or in my case macbook). I have a little red recipe book that I store up in my cupboard, but when it comes to printed out recipes I do like BG recommends I have those spiral bound sleeve folders with the plastic sleeves for loose recipes (I also have one for all our take out menu's).
My dream is to when I finally have my kitchen of my dreams DH has promised me a LCD in the kitchen which will connect wirelessly to my mac to display all my recipes
the LCD sounds fantastic Cai - we can dream hey?? i'm getting a new kitchen soon, maybe i should let you design it!
i have a lot of recipes on lappy at the moment - just waiting for when our kitchen is done. at the moment, all printed stuff has to be stored elsewhere, so it's just not practical to print (and lose) it - when i can keep on lappy for the time being...
I have started using Microsoft One-note - It is basically a program that works like one of those notebooks with the dividers for sections. I have a personal "notebook" with all my general notes (quotes, receipts, handy info) and a separate one for recipes. The recipe one has a "divider" for each group (cakes, biscuits, Mexican etc) and under each "divider" is a page for each recipe. I copy and paste the recipes as I find them on various websites, it is handy as I can include the pictures (if any) and the link to the original site is pasted as well, in case I need to go back there. I am able to find recipes easily by looking through the "dividers' or just running a search on an ingredient.
Astrid, is that program like access (the database program)? I don't have either one, and I'm rather interested in putting all my recipes on something good. Well, if I wanted to do that, I'd get a Mac (yes, deep down, I'm a Mac person).
Yet for some reason, I would also love to have them all on paper. I think I prefer that whole thing about being able to have something tangible. THere's also the fact that I can't see the computer screen well enough from the kitchen. I probably could if I cleared off my bench.
I'd get a screen in my kitchen too..... What about one of those fridges with the screen?
My tip is to only store the ones you've made and loved.
Even if it's a ripper looking recipe but it's from months ago and you've never made it - get rid of it!! The same goes for recipe books that you like but never use. It's just another form of clutter.
That way the ones you have made and love enough to use again are much easier to find.
Netix - hard program to describe, had a coworker who raved about it and tried to show me. It was not till I had it at home that I was able to work it out. It is not a database, it is like a word document, but rather than pages that just keep on scrolling, it has pages that are like tabs in excel. It can have tables, it can work like a calculator if you just start typing in a forumula (1 + 2 =). The pages can be moved and arranged. Imagine a binder with dividers for different "subjects". Behind each divider you place loose leaf paper, printouts etc. It is just paperless
I do admit though, I like a recipe on paper, but I am trying to cut down on clutter. Plus I do like being able to do a search on something like "banana". I have to follow Marydean and toss those paper recipes I have carried around, but not used once in 18 years.
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