Create a personal recipe book

more recipes for my recipe book from Waitrose today – I do like the recipe cards which you can get from supermarkets!

Anyway, am hoping to be able to mark this goal as done tomorrow as I hope to be able to sit down and write up a pile of recipes into my book…

I cook from scratch almost every day, usually the standard Brit fare of pasta, curry, risotto during the week and then get a bit more adventurous at the weekend. We have about 25-30 recipe books, but use about 5 of these regularly.

*Appetite – Nigel Slater (for the variations & pics)
*How to Eat – Nigella Lawson (I take the basics from here, rather than the weird and wonderful concoctions)
*Apples for Jam – Tessa Kiros (again nice basics)
*World Vegetarian – Madhur Jaffrey (healthy stuff)
*Book of Baking – Sue Lawrence (A’s cake bible!)

All of the above are great, but I always find that I forget about certain dishes so last night, I went through all of them and listed my faves in a notebook with the page no. and any extra ingredients that I don’t tend to keep in my stock cupboard.

This should make it a lot easier to plan the weekly shop at a glance and bypassed writing everything out into another book again.

Ive been through some old magazines and cut out recipes to put in my new recipe book! Very exciting (am also putting this down to nesting, as is remarkably organised and unlike me).

Looking forward to collecting a few more things to go in there though, and writing up some recipes which I have sourced from the internet.

This goal should be complete by Tuesday – hurrah!

I had this as a goal for a long time, and I just never quite got round to it… however, as I have just spent the last 3 days exploring recipes, and cooking a mountain of food, I have decided that I really want to achieve this goal now :o)

Sooooo, while I was out today I popped into Paperchase and located a beautiful recipe book for me to fill in, and next week Ill set about recording my recipes in it. Will be so handy to have around the kitchen – as it will remind me of all the different things I can cook when I am suffering from baby-brain and cant think what to do!

This is a work in progress but it has a very solid foundation with old favorites and new ideas in it. I think that it has served me well so far!

There’s a web site where you can create your own cookbook—http://www.tastebook.com/ I might try that once I feel satisfied with my collection (never!), or once my card files start to pop at the seams, whichever happens first (guess which one it’ll be….)

I recently decided to start creating a card file so that planning vegetarian meals for me and hubby can be that much easier. Eventually, I plan on starting a personal chef business, so being able to show off and use my own personal cook book at a gig sounds professional and convenient. I also relish the idea of being able to pass my cookbooks down to my children.

Candace
http://greeneyed-gourmet.blogspot.com

I want to make a recipe book with all my favorite recipes.

maybe some other time

Culinary arts is a huge part of my life,
but I’ve never bothered to compile a recipe book.

I’d like to make it a scrapbook of sorts.. with pictures of people that have enjoyed the meal and commentaries on the first time I used the recipe.

Very proud…!