Organizing your Recipes

Filed in archive Gadgets , Kitchen & Tableware , Recipes , Tricks & Techniques on March 22, 2010

If you love to cook, you must have tons of cookbooks and recipes in your kitchen. Sure, you have some recipes already etched in your memory, but surely, you have really good recipes that call for seasonal ingredients, or perhaps only prepared during special occasions. Or what about those dishes you've always wanted to try, but just never got to yet? I've got recipes quickly and haphazardly jotted on scraps on paper, or on the back of receipts. I've got cut-outs from magazines, hand-written instructions from friends, and print-outs of recipes found on the web. I used to just post them on the fridge door with a magnet, but our fridge looks like a complete mess (inside and out).

Has anyone used the Williams-Sonoma Personal Recipe & Entertaining Journal (photo)? It's basically a ring binder, but it can hold recipes in all forms, whether they're jotted on cards, clipped from magazines or printed out from the computer. It looks really elegant, too. A bit too elegant perhaps, considering what a klutz I sometimes am in the kitchen.

How do YOU organize your recipe clips?