Recipes!!!

Pardon this interruption to our regularly scheduled meal cataloging, but I just spent way too long making this and I think it's relevant enough to post here.

Now that I'm making more food I found that I need a better way to organize my recipes. As it is, I just have a folder of bookmarks on my computer and an open computer takes up way too much counter space in an already too-small kitchen. So when we went out shopping this afternoon, I tried to find some good recipe systems, but I either found something too complicated, too simple, or too expensive. The best deal I found was $6 for 25 really ugly recipe cards which is just preposterous!

Ultimately, we came home empty handed but I was determined to make what I wanted myself and voilà! Recipe cards :D


I you want, you can download them to use yourself. I made two versions: one for printing directly on 4x6 notecards – front and back – and another for a regular 8.5x11 size paper (you cut and fold into a 4x6 size that also conveniently stands up on its own).

• 4x6 Version (Googledoc)
• 8.5x11 Version (Googledoc)

Now all I have to do is pick up a 3-ring photo album with 4x6 size clear plastic slots and I'm ready to cook :)

Let me know what you think!! I'd be more than happy to make another version, too, if you have suggestions.