organizing recipes?

[Guest guest]

I use accuchef that you can download at cnet for free. You have 30 days to try

it and if you keep it it is $20.00. I like it because I can print off a recipe

book.

 

Lesa

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I have a bunch of notebooks, with page protectors. Each notebook is a

category, for example, Grains, Breakfast, Desserts.... Use whatever

categories you like. My husband even cut out pictures of food from

magazines after I took out the recipes I wanted, and made collages to

go with each category, so they look pretty cool.

 

My digital recipes are completely unorganized though; just a folder

with a gazillion text files. It's a someday project.

[Guest guest]

i haven't printed out recipes yet. Usually i just bring the recipe

up on the computer screen and follow it from there; often

i have to run back and forth between my cooking space & the

computer, but i just chalk this up as good excersize. *lol*

Sometimes i am lucky enough to have a kids sitting infront

of my imac, then i just yell over to them, " Okay, what do i do

now? "

 

As far as how i organize recipes on my computer, i just created

document folders for each category: snacks & appetizers, soups,

stews, main dish, etc.... much like our folders in our group files

are organized. When i see a recipe on another group that i want

to highlight to try for myself soon, i stick it into a sub-folder in

the proper category that is titled " to try soon " ; i have TTS sub-

folders in each folder pretty much. So many recipes to try and so

little time!

 

~ pt ~

 

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside

that holds whatever we want.

~ Tao Te Ching

~~~*~~~*~~~>

 

, subprong <subprong wrote:

>

> Hi all. Just curious as to how you all organize your recipes. Do you

> all have software or a binder or what?

[trimmed]

> I also end up saving to my computer many of the recipes that I'd like

> to make in the future. The problem is I now have one document,

> unorganized, with tons of recipes.

>

> Do you all have a good system for this? Is there a method to your

> madness as with mine, arguably. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

I copy and paste the recipe only and email to my self in another email

account. ()

 

There I have separate files for everything and I just drag them to the

folder they belong in.

 

Becky

 

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Alexandra Soltow

9/9/2007 11:59:11 AM

 

Re: organizing recipes?

 

> what method do you use to organize your recipes, especially the ones

> from

> this group?

 

I save recipes that come to me via my computer in a text file; I print

them out when I make them, and then save them (assuming they taste

good!) in a card file. Very compact.

 

I have a three-ring binder for the recipes I use at school.

 

Alex

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

hahahaha Good Morning Gary & Beth. What would life

be without a good laugh? And you know what, it's

free!

Donna

--- Gary Mattingly <gsmattingly wrote:

 

> Yes, I figured it out but it was an interesting

> vision at first.

>

> Gary

>

> --- Beth Renzetti <elmothree2000 wrote:

>

> > omg the tears of hysterical laughter running down

> my

> > face. off to the loo before i have an accident.

> >

> > please tell me you eventually figured out that i

> > printed recipes.

> >

> > But hey, a new marketing idea....recipes on

> > undies....think Victoria's Secret would sell

> them???

> >

> > Gary Mattingly <gsmattingly wrote:

> > For a moment there I thought you had

> > underwear

> > that you printed and I was trying to get a mental

> > picture of printed underwear. oh, quite talented

> > is this group. I mean, I have a friend that dyes

> > scarves so surely you should be able to print

> > underwear. Hm, what would you print on it though?

> > Ah, you print recipes on your underwear. Well,

> > you'll never find yourself in some awkward

> position

> > where you don't know what to cook. Honey,

> > are you cooking tonight? You bet sweetheart.

> > How does this recipe look? Ooh, ( I have to

> > stop I'm getting into Mature Audience stuff

> > here). ;<)

> >

> > My apologies.

> >

> > Gary

> >

> > --- Beth Renzetti <elmothree2000 wrote:

> >

> > > HAHAHAHA. Great question; I'm learning lots from

> > > others. Especially in regards to underwear

> > drawers.

> > > I have a milk crate where I stuff all the ones i

> > > print. I receive posts by email, so anything

> that

> > > catches my eye goes into a recipes folder to

> print

> > > eventually.

>

 

 

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With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Source: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beatles

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Gary, the company that look after MC do seem to have abandoned it in

favour of games so it is pretty stagnant, whereas LC is still growing. A

huge amount of the people on my formatting lists use OCR software to get

their recipes into MC, I don't have a good enough scanner but am a very fast

typist so I do it the old fashioned way most of the time. You still need to

fiddle with it to get it into the correct format and then import but I guess

it is quicker than typing it all out.

 

 

 

Let me know what you think of LC, I much prefer the whole look and feel of

it, plus the support is great, but sadly MC is reams ahead in terms of share

of the market - but if Valusoft do nothing more with it, then maybe LC can

jump ahead, who knows.

 

Carolyn

 

 

 

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On Behalf Of Gary Mattingly

09 September 2007 17:54

 

RE: organizing recipes?

 

 

 

Hi,

 

Thanks for mentioning livingcookbook. I

wasn't aware of that one and will take a look.

http://www.livingco <http://www.livingcookbook.com/> okbook.com/

http://www.valusoft <http://www.valusoft.com/products/mastercook.html>

..com/products/mastercook.html

 

I had heard that Mastercook had gone downhill

over the last few years although, as you note,

there are still great quantities of recipes

out there in that format.

 

I wonder if any of them have considered reading

outputs from OCR (optical character recognition)

software and organizing it properly. That would

be ever so helpful in getting things from print

into recipe software. Admittedly there may not

be a consistent format in books/magazines/newspapers

which such software could deal with.

 

Gary

[Guest guest]

I go the other way, I received them on and file them in gmail!

Katie

 

Becky <beckylynn114 wrote:

I copy and paste the recipe only and email to my self in another email

account. ()

 

There I have separate files for everything and I just drag them to the

folder they belong in.

 

Becky

 

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Alexandra Soltow

9/9/2007 11:59:11 AM

 

Re: organizing recipes?

 

> what method do you use to organize your recipes, especially the ones

> from

> this group?

 

I save recipes that come to me via my computer in a text file; I print

them out when I make them, and then save them (assuming they taste

good!) in a card file. Very compact.

 

I have a three-ring binder for the recipes I use at school.

 

Alex

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

If something looks good, either from the files in this group of

somewhere else on the internet, I email it to myself. Usually it is a

large document, for several version on how to

prepare 'something'. 'Something' could be growing on our garden or be

surplus from my partner's job. Usually lots of different recipes help

to cook a lot of one thing....

 

So if I make it and like it I leave it on my desktop (computer) for a

while. If it becomes a favorite, it goes into a large document where

I have been collecting my favorite recipes. That one only gets

updated once a year or so, but i keep in in various computers, so a

crash would not destroy it.