November 26 - Organize Recipes

Organizing Solution
Between now and the end of the year I’ll be offering suggestions for ways to bring order to areas of your home where clutter may persist in returning.

Once upon a time, your collection of cookbooks may have been your sole source for meal ideas. Nowadays, you may rely on a few favorites and the recipes that you print from the internet. 

If you have cookbooks on your shelves for the sake of a couple of recipes, consider photocopying or hand copying the recipe and save yourself the space an entire book takes up.

If you have a stash of recipes printed from the Internet as well as clipped from newspapers and magazines, consider storing them in an accordion folder, labeling each section for a different category of dish. 

This method saves you from rewriting recipes onto index cards that fit in a binder. However, only include recipes that you've tried and enjoyed. Keep recipes that you haven't yet tried clipped together and make a point of trying a new recipe each week. (And if that sounds overwhelming, then limit printing out recipes with the self-knowledge that you're unlikely to cook or bake the dishes.) 
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