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I am contemplating revamping how I store recipes (which is to say, something more effective than the tag in Pinboard I have, many of which are entirely too aspirational for my actual cooking time and energy, no matter how tasty they might be.)
So. I'm curious. What works for you when managing recipes? What doesn't? What would you like to try, but haven't gotten around to? (Both in terms of organising such things, and in terms of, y'know, actual recipe recommendations)
What I've been up to:
Just started the Donna season of Doctor Who (I am skipping some episodes at this stage, since I've watched the early seasons of New Who multiple times relatively recently.)
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Topic of the week
I am contemplating revamping how I store recipes (which is to say, something more effective than the tag in Pinboard I have, many of which are entirely too aspirational for my actual cooking time and energy, no matter how tasty they might be.)
So. I'm curious. What works for you when managing recipes? What doesn't? What would you like to try, but haven't gotten around to? (Both in terms of organising such things, and in terms of, y'know, actual recipe recommendations)
What I've been up to:
Just started the Donna season of Doctor Who (I am skipping some episodes at this stage, since I've watched the early seasons of New Who multiple times relatively recently.)
House rules:
This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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Date: 2018-03-23 01:58 pm (UTC)I have one other cookbook that's mine, and it's Stephanie Alexander's The Cook's Companion. It is organised by ingredient, and it honestly could be a kitchen witch's grimoire (it has nearly 800 pages it is a brick omg). My mum originally had one, but my brother took it when he moved out after my mother got a newer edition for a gift, so when I saw this one in a charity shop for $8, I scooped it up. She has a section on equipment, and a section on basics, and honestly, she taught me how to make a roux, so. I am very fond of this book, and I plan to explore it in more depth when I am taking care of myself for a month or so while the parents are interstate. She has some lovely recipes in here I would love to try. I do love that it's organised by ingredient, because I can just skip to what I want, and see what strikes my fancy.
In the kitchen, we have a bunch of other recipe books, and an index card box full of handwritten recipes and folded pieces of paper with recipes that have been printed out from the web and stuck in there for safe-keeping. I think I have a few hiding away in there. The box itself has changed a few times, but the cards haven't. Some are looking a little worse for wear, which indicates the ones we cook the most often.
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Date: 2018-03-23 02:59 pm (UTC)I more or less taught myself to cook out of Help! My Apartment Has A Kitchen by Kevin and Nancy Mills (he's her son), and it had really helpful tips and explanations for how to do common things.
The recipes are solid (not thrilling, but decidedly food) and there's a nice mix of things, with appropriate tips as you go along that build specific skills I found really handy. (And it totally demystified roasting a chicken for me.)
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Date: 2018-03-23 03:11 pm (UTC)I've picked up a few things from the internet, and from just being forced to fend for myself more or less. Also, still living at home means I have plenty of opportunities to watch others cook, which I find helpful too. I think I would probably flail around a lot if I was suddenly on my own, but I would figure things out eventually, based mostly on my common sense of 'you like vegetables, just eat them, and then maybe some meat if you like'. Which is about as tuned as my 'healty eating sense' has got.
I do sometimes find it hard cooking for one, though, which is when I do most of my cooking. So I try to find things that will produce lots of leftovers, or things short and simple enough to feed me once. I'm still to find a decent '1 person meal' cookbook that doesn't annoy me, but when I do find one I like, that would probably be my next addition to my library.
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Date: 2018-03-23 03:41 pm (UTC)My problem is that I like batch cooking as a concept, but the health issues mean that a lot of the time, I cook a batch, and halfway through the batch, that thing stops being food.
(And I have a tiny apartment freezer, plus apparently things I have to reheat that started out cooked often turn out not to be food either.)
So, part of what I really want to do is get a better mix of 'this is a batch, but I'm likely to eat it' or 'this is a one or two serving meal' or whatever and have a way to not get in a rut about what I'm choosing.
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Date: 2018-03-23 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-23 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-23 03:14 pm (UTC)ETA: This is the edition I have. Obviously, don't buy it new unless you are made of money, but it is a book that will last you a lifetime, so even a used copy will pay for itself pretty quickly if you can get hold of one.
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Date: 2018-03-23 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-23 03:23 pm (UTC)If you want to see any pages from it before you buy it, let me know. :) I'd be happy to make a little flipthrough video for you.
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