I was doing a bit of reading about this last night (just two of the books I have on this topic are "Confessions of an Organised Homemaker" and "Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer" - I told you I was really into this sort of thing LOL) and one idea I got was to use a rolodex (business card holder) and use it as an index system. Instead of the "A" tab, for example, I could turn that section into "vegetarian" and put behind it either written out recipes or references to particular pages in cookbooks. You could have sections for meat dishes, quick/standby meals, desserts, and so on. Limeslice, this could be a way of starting to actualy use some of my books!

Bridg I am also liking the idea of having a regular pattern, like Monday being the day I try something from a new book, or Friday nights being a meal-from-the-freezer night.

DB I think the card system could also work like the one you have set up, plus i have a recipe book with my "staples", such as my golden syrup dumpling recipe, and so on.

One thing I read last night was sage advice to me - if all you do is collect recipes, doesn't make you a better cook. It makes you good at collecting recipes! So I am going to get back to cooking and stop stressing about perfection