Blessed with 11 zucchinis all at once? You get the picture. Farm share delivers kohlrabi? Click, click, there’s that kohlrabi recipe a friend recommended. That way, if you have a half a head of cabbage in the crisper, you can easily figure out what to do with it. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could search your personal collection like you search the web? The awesome thing about my Evernote recipe collection is that I can search every word of text in (almost) every recipe I’ve collected, from any source: Recipe cards from my sister-in-law, pictures snapped from cookbooks, and recipes clipped from the Internet, of course.Īs digital as we are, a lot of recipes are still floating around on paper. I spent months researching recipe apps, but in the end, I decided to use a note-taking tool called Evernote (no affiliation). Every few years, when they became unwieldy, I would buy shiny new dividers and reorganize, but it was always kind of chaotic.įinally I decided to go digital.
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Soon I had two, then three overstuffed binders. I started my recipe collection over 30 years ago, in high school! (Dating myself.) I’d type up or photocopy recipes I liked, even if the cookbook lived in our kitchen, so they could be in my collection. Searched for “apple crisp,” so those words are highlighted. One of the first recipes in my collection. The question is, where do you keep your recipes? Your reliable go-to’s, your special-occasion favourites, and those you really want to try (if you ever find the time)? In a binder? A folder on your computer? Notes in cookbooks? In your brain? All of the above? Maybe your system works well, but if not, here’s my approach…
#HOW TO USE EVERNOTE FOR RECIPES FULL#
You probably have a shelf full of cookbooks, perhaps some pages torn from magazines, and who knows how many bookmarked from that recipe treasure trove in the cloud.
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If not, join me next week, when I’ll share my must-have go-to meal and snack list. If that sounds like you, join me for a peek. But balance that against the time it will take to set it up and your comfort level with having your tablet, computer, or phone within splashing distance of the stove. If you too like to hoard recipes, and want to find the right one quickly, from anywhere, consider it.
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#HOW TO USE EVERNOTE FOR RECIPES SERIES#
Quick, what are you having for dinner tonight? How about tomorrow? If those questions make you uneasy, join me for a look at the meal planning system that keeps our family eating in that delicious, nutritious sweet spot all week long. This is the first of a four-part series sharing my: