Question for the cooks

[resonant]

How do you manage your recipe collection?

For a long time, I was perfectly happy with my card file. But then I started using tags for LJ/DW, and now everything in life that doesn't have tags is really annoying to me, because why can't one recipe be under Poultry and Grilling and Quick & Easy and Summer and Kidlet's Favorites?

Also, it would be handy to be able to link up a recipe with a side dish that works really well with it, or with another one that uses up the leftover roast chicken or the other half of that tub of ricotta or what have you. Maybe even to see when was the last time I cooked it.

I've been half tempted to post my recipes as locked DW entries so I could tag them, or to start a new journal just for recipes. But I'm betting there's some better way out there.

Comments

[sara]

Ah, yeah -- six months of the year I have a CSA share, which forces me to be creative. And then it's winter, and we don't much care if we eat the same thing over and over again because we know pretty soon it'll be May again and we'll have to come up with three ways to have kale in a week. ;>

[resonant]

CSA is like Iron Chef, isn't it? This year either I'm going to figure out some way to enjoy beets or I'm going to hang out in the parking lot haggling. "Trade these for your turnip greens? C'mon, you're a Yankee, you were just going to throw them away ..."

[sara]

It is. Having chickens who'll eat beets helps, as does having a daycare lady who likes artichokes.