Naturally, I started collecting cookbooks. And cooking magazines. And recipes scribbled on 3x5 cards. And ideas printed off the internet or jotted down on scratch paper. I even have a recipe that I found tucked between the pages of one of my grandma's cookbooks. It's a newspaper clipping ... in Spanish.
By 2008, the collection took up an entire six feet of shelving. I was just a little bit overwhelmed.
So I started a blog to help keep track of our favorite recipes. It serves many purposes.
1. Our favorite recipes are preserved for posterity (or at least for as long as blogspot's server lasts) on the internet, where
2. I can access them even when I am not at home.
3. It makes it very easy to share my recipes with friends when they ask. (Hi Amy!) :)
4. And if anything ever happens to my recipe notebook (see below), I can very easily put together a new one.
The blog is handy, all right, but it wasn't helping any with the cookbook clutter. However, moving was a great excuse to purge the cookbook shelves. I recycled magazines, took some cookbooks to a used book store, tossed scraps of paper in the trash...and stuffed two folders full of recipes to try.
Once most of the boxes were unpacked and we felt kind of settled in here, I started another serious purge of the remaining recipes. I typed up and posted on the blog the ones that we've tried and liked, then went through the whole blog and printed out every recipe. I stuck those pages in a binder filled with page protectors and now my recipes are legible, organized, and protected from spills.
Unfortunately, I still have a whole box of cookbooks to unpack.
I have no idea where I'm going to put them.
Which is why they are still not unpacked.
But I can still cook my family's favorite meals, thanks to Mommy's Recipes!
(Does that sound like a cheesy infomercial, or what?!?)
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