Topic: Recording and organising recipes

[natterjak]

I'm reaching a point where I have too many recipes floating around inside my head and I need to get them noted down in a way that will prevent me losing them. Just wondering how you note down your recipes, whether post it notes taped to the kitchen cupboards,  or perhaps you've entered the computer age and have some kind of software based solution with online backups, etc...

While many of the recipes I refer to are on this forum, I don't like to depend on an external service and would hate to lose access to these recipes if the forum disappeared.

[DalPuri]

I copy mine into notepad on the pc, then save into the relevant folders that i posted in my first ever post on this forum. 

Frank. 

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=6268.msg62604#msg62604

[mr.mojorisin]

same as above.

I copy and past into word docs.

I also download any videos that I find useful

[martinvic]

Same, copy and paste into a MS Word doc.

Easy to make changes to, if you tweek them to your own taste.

I then print out my favs and put them in a folder (with plastic inserts), for using when cooking.

Martin

[Stephen Lindsay]

Like others I store on PC in folders - see screenshot

[Razor]

Hi NJ,

I write/type out my recipes on a word doc and save in the relevant folder ie; Curry Recipes, Starter Recipes, Supplementary Recipes and so on.  I then print them out, laminate them and pop them into a A5 binder, creating a recipe book if you like.  I also accompany each of the recipes with a photo, just to show what the end result should look like.

Even 'er in doors' picks up my recipe book for a quick look, unfortunately, she doesn't treat it as a recipe book but treats it more like her own personal 'Takeaway Menu' that delivers for free 

Ray

[Ramirez]

Google Docs here. Accessible from everywhere and don't have to worry about backups. Nice and simple.

I have a very simple folder structure: Recipes > Indian. Everything goes into the one folder.

[George]

I have a very simple folder structure: Recipes > Indian. Everything goes into the one folder.

Me too. So there will be dozens of recipes starting with the the words "base sauce" followed by the author/source name, all filed within the same "Indian recipes" folder.

I use Notepad, like DalPuri, rather than the highly inefficient MS Word program. Even if you have a hard drive with 25Tb capacity why take up far more space with Word than you do with Notepad?

[joshallen2k]

Interesting that so many cut-and-paste into Word or Google docs.

I've always just bookmarked them within my browser.

That said, I've worried from time-to-time "what if I can't get internet?"

-- Josh

[natterjak]

Interesting replies. I like the google docs idea for its resilience and assumed permanence.