1. Organized? Me?
My nutritional research is in a spreadsheet that I’ve email to myself back and forth as I worked on it. The two menu plans from that research that I keep gravitating back towards are in a notebook, and posted in odd places like this thread :)
Other recipes that I find are written on the backs of envelopes and bits of scratch paper and tucked into and between my cookbooks. My cookbooks have their own shelf.
2. I don’t have things categorized. I’m the kind of person who, if I set something down, I will know where it is. My bedroom may look like a tornado hit it, but if there is something specific I want to find, I can just about reach blindly into a pile and find it. It’s only when someone else moves it that things get lost.
Same with recipes. If I think of a recipe I read years ago, I can see the page it was on. And then it’s a matter of finding which book matches that page.
That said, find what works with the way your own mind is geared. What works for one won’t work for another.
Thanks for your input! Much appreciated. If only the memory would never fail us. More beets for this chicken.. once fairly good at remembering but now there are times memory takes a short vacation. Till searching for that Sweet Potato Souffle made several Christmas Dinners ago! Thanks again.
VK
That’s how I find quotes in a book; I can always visualize the text, and know whether it was recto or verso, how far into the book it was, etc.
But when I first got married and my husband and I discovered that we liked cooking together, I put together a ring binder with those page-protector slips; everything goes in there, categorized: salads, vegetable sides, meat, poultry, etc.
That way I can just cut something out of a magazine, or scan it from a book; or slip in a recipe card that someone has given me.
Of course, now it’s grown to several ring binders...;-)
-JT