Kitchen Notebook

[barbszy]

Recently I read a tip about keeping a "kitchen notebook." This is just a regular notebook that you use in the kitchen to scribble down those "cook by the seat of your pants" recipes, or what you did to some recipe that you already had--so that when you want to reproduce it later you actually have it written down.

I have started to do this. It's also great for me to scribble down those recipes I find on the internet, to try them out before I waste the good paper and ink to print them out.

I'm just using a regular spiral notebook that I got for 10 cents in the back-to-school sale.

I like this idea because I can write reviews, or whatever, in here. Then when I decide that a recipe is a "keeper" I can print it out, with any changes I've made, and put it in my recipe binder. I'm trying to be more selective about what goes into that binder!

[Chef Mark]

That's a great idea.

I can't tell you how many times I've whipped up something spur of the moment, and then at some future point when I want to use that recipe for an article, I can't remember every ingredient or the specific amounts that I used.

[Bilby]

My computer desk is littered with scrappy paper with recipes I've found on the net and like you I don't print them them or save them till tried, but if' Ive I've not made an attempt to try that recipe a month later I toss it as I end up with scraps of paper everywhere and it must not have appealed to me that much if I've not made it.
Notebook sounds good

[barbszy]

I've also discovered that this is a good way to leave directions for someone else if they have to do some meal prep when I am not home. All I have to tell them is to check the notebook and I put a paper clip on the right spot.