Just out of curiosity, how do people keep track of recipes they love and want to repeat? Pinterest? Print out recipes? Keep a photo of the recipe in an album on your phone?
I use Pinterest but it could surely be cleaned up and organized better. I have a “Recipes To Try” board and a “Recipe Tried - It’s A Keeper” board.
Last night I did meatball open faced subs and they were DELICIOUS. Both I and H really enjoyed them.
I made homemade meatballs - but you could use Costco or other prepared meatballs. Simmered in Rao sauce for about a half hour. Turned off for a half hour for the sauce to thicken up.
Took Costco baguettes and halved them. (I only used a section of the baguette - they are huge!) Scooped out some of the bread from the middle to make a well in the baguette. Mixed some soft butter, garlic and olive oil and slathered the bread inside. Toasted in the oven for about 5 minutes then filled the halves with meatballs, sauce, sprinkled with parm and mozzarella. Broiled for a few minutes.
If I would have had pesto I would have drizzled on top. I did sprinkle some fresh basil leaves on mine. Definitely will be doing these again and keeping baguette pieces stocked in the freezer! Worked great in the toaster oven.
I use pinterest; if it becomes a long term keeper recipe, I print it and put it in a recipe binder.
I just put the ingredients I have and Google for recipes, no need for saving anything. Sometime I don’t get the same recipes but I’m ok with that, I don’t really follow any recipe closely.
Print out and keep in a file next to my cookbooks. H does the same. I write when it was tried on the paper or in the book. Also a rating out of 10 with comments and dosing adjustments. If it is below 7 or 8 well I don’t keep it.
Yeah, it doesn’t have to be a meal “recipe” but even meal “idea”. I too often don’t follow a recipe. But when I have a winner, I want to have that idea saved somewhere to rinse and repeat in the meal rotation!
Likely to make again, I bookmark the recipe in my browser. Definite make again, I print it out and keep it in a binder with my cookbooks.
@abasket I use the recipe app Paprika. Not only can I save, categorize and edit recipes with my own changes, but it also gets rid of all the “crap” - ads and extraneous info on recipe blogs. O more scrolling , etc.
Here is an example of what a recipe looks like after downloading it into Paprika. This is the Marry Me Chicken someone (you?) shared the link for. The whole recipe part does not appear in this photo - but you can see what it looks like. At the top, there is a link to the original recipe location, and you can see the categories/tags I used to easily find it on the main page of the app. I have an ipad so I just prop it on counter and pull up the recipe to use while cooking.
Oh gosh, I’m a sucker for an organizing app - and called Paprika! One of my favorite spices!
I might have to give it a shot.
@abasket I think it was $5. I never pay for apps but this one is totally worth the $5. A friend who cooks a lot highly recommended it to me. The nice thing is that if a recipe comes from a blog, etc, you don’t have to worry about losing access to it if something happens to the blog, the link no longer works, your bookmarks get lost, etc.
I recently got a membership to Eat Your Books. It’s a website where you can put in ingredients and it will pull up all the recipes with those ingredients from the cookbooks you own. There are also cooking magazines in the website database. This won’t work if you don’t have cookbooks or if you don’t want to take the time to enter all your cookbooks. I have lots of cookbooks, so it took some time to enter.
I tend to make stuff from the same 4 or 5 cookbooks and with EYB you can make use of all your books. It’s $30 per year or $3 per month. You can use it for free, but can only have 5 cookbooks. This article describes EYB better than I just did. My H says that only cookbook geeks ike this.
Gosh, I’m going to tell my daughter and her BF about this!
I bookmark my recipes on my computer.
I do box dinners occasionally. Not every week but I go on streaks. Got Hello Fresh this week and last night was a Shepard’s Pie. It was delicious.
Also got a Lemon Ricotta Dutch Baby. My husband won’t eat it, so I guess I’ll have it all to myself. His loss!
I made the Shepherd’s Pie from Hello Fresh about a month ago. It was very good ( got Hello Fresh for one week as a gift).
So far I still do things the old fashioned way… recipe box for the old favorites, cookbooks (though I just did a big purge), MANY categorized clippings/printout… .but often I just google to find an idea for ingredients on hand. I’m not opposed to a smarter electronic method, just have not thought much about it. Perhaps I’ll take a look at Paprika.
The nice thing about the box dinners is that it forces me to explore different dishes. My husband would be happy if I made the same 5 recipes and sometimes I do get drug into that.
It also has explored vegetarian dishes for me. I have to say that I never thought about chickpeas and ways to make meatless dishes.
I think some people are good at this and recipes. I’m not that creative. And I like not thinking about what to make, buying groceries and then cooking. Just pick it out, it arrives at my door and I cook.
I’m making Shepherd’s Pie tomorrow, why, ground beef and onions were on sale yesterday. Every week, my menus are dictated by what’s on sale.
I bookmark recipes in Pocket, tagged “recipes” and sometimes more specifically also, like “soups.” Very searchable, and I have the app on my phone, so I can check it while I’m shopping to get ingredients.
Basically my whole life is in Pocket; I must have a thousand websites categorized in it.
We had this for dinner tonight, and it is basically the most addictive flavor on the face of the earth:
