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

[quinfirefrorefiddle]

Any particular reason you wouldn't want to just put them on this account? I mean, if you didn't want to spam everybody, you could put them up in batches, or you could backdate some of them?

Come to think of it, this is a good idea. I'm pretty sure the only family recipe I'm not supposed to share is the sauerbraten and sauce....

[resonant]

I'm thinking I'd rather have a separate DW for food, and then people can sub to one or both as they choose. Maybe we'll wind up with a whole network of fannish food blogs.

Or maybe a recipe community -- though I don't know ... tag control would be a nightmare, since the tags that are meaningful to one of us wouldn't necessarily be meaningful to others. ("Kidlet's favorite," for instance -- unless the rest of y'all want to come cook for my eleven-year-old, which you're more than welcome to do.)