Food

How do you handle your recipes?

This week I was working on pulling together witches' answers to the survey question "What's a system or process that you tried to optimize your household that didn't work out?" I have some takeaways that I think will make many of you feel a lot better in that you are far from alone in not landing on some enforceable, manageable way to handle your household chores/screen time/laundry/meal planning. The bad news is that I don't have a system that DOES work but maybe you will stop telling yourself it's not working because you're not on top of it.

But then my dad told me that after some tests to follow up on this, my mom has probably Alzheimer's and maybe this (more testing to be done) so I took one of the mental breaks I feel entitled to after I get some sort of aging parent info that knocks me out.

Anyway as I pull the issue together, I noticed someone mention something I've been wanting to ask witches about for awhile now:

"I am always changing how I organize recipes."

Do you like your system? I currently have a hard copy system I copied from my mother that involves cutting out keepers and taping them into a binder. I used to also copy her star rating system but I think I'm just going to indicate make-agains. I've been thinking about buying myself an e-reader for a trip later this year makes me wonder if that's a great opportunity to start cooking via screen instead of the ol' greasy binder.

What's your system? Honestly I will admire it more the more arcane it is.Tell me in the comments, which are open to all.

The aforementioned binder, out because my nearly 11 year old requested shepherd's pie and meatballs this weekend for his birthday. PS. He said "Why does it feel like my birthday???" on Mother's Day.

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