If you’re interested in food, and you spend any amount of time on the internet, it’s likely that so many amazing looking recipes cross your path every day that you can’t possibly remember all of them. I’ve experimented with many different recipe organization tactics, but through it all, I always had my blue folder. This folder contained recipes I’ve been collecting since I was 10 years old. Most of them are printed from websites, and stained from use. There are pages torn from magazines, emails from aunts, and even some typewritten sheets from my youth, when I practiced typing by copying recipes from magazines.
The recipes have never been organized in anyway, and I rarely used them because it was too much of a pain to sort through the messy piles and find what I wanted. Last week, the folder finally gave up the ghost, and it was time to find a new solution.
I bought the Bon Appetit Recipe Organizer
The organizer is divided into sections, and for the most part this works great, although anything with multiple recipes on one page caused me some categorization angst. The section dividers have pockets for smaller cards and things that don’t easily fit into a sheet protector, which is nice. I think there should be a section for sandwiches, but in general, I like the categories that the binder is divided into.
It feels super satisfying to finally have the recipe folder organized, and I’m hoping it’ll make it easier for me to actually use all those recipes. I ended up throwing away a bunch of stuff, because I don’t think I really need four recipes for mac and cheese. But those recipes typed up by my dorky sixth grade self? Those are never being thrown away.
Now I just need to figure out my online recipe maintenance situation, and I’ll be good to go.