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

[devildoll]

I keep all mine in Google docs, stored in a Recipe folder and then sub-folders (Salads, Mains, Cakes, Desserts, etc), which serve basically as tags. So you could put a recipe in the Poultry and Grilling and Quick & Easy and Summer and Kidlet's Favorites folders, for instance.

This obviously has the added bonus of being available to me wherever I can get online, and I can just pull up a recipe, put my laptop on the kitchen counter, and cook away. Lucky people with internet access on their phones can double-check for ingredients while shopping--someday, that will be me (I hope)!

[resonant]

I never would have thought of Google Docs. And you're right, "copies" on the internet take up no space, so I could put things in as many folders as I wanted to.