subject: What Happened To My Favorite Recipes? [print this page] When I was growing up, my mother had several shelves of cookbooks and recipe boxes in her kitchen. It seemed that when she wanted to make a favorite recipe, she would have to go through many different books and look in different places to find the one recipe she was looking for. If someone wanted to know 'her' recipe, she would have to write it out for them and the piece of paper would often be lost. If she wanted to know someone else's recipe, the reverse would need to occur, she would need to collect their recipe and then catalog it somewhere.
When I started my own collection, I tried to write the recipes on paper, but I would get the papers messy or lost. It's hard to cook when you don't know whether a recipe is calling for 1/3 cup of flour or 1 cup. I started using a software solution to save, catalog and share my recipes. With software, it is easy to print off the one recipe you are using. If the paper gets dirty or wet or otherwise destroyed, it is easy to go back to the master recipe on your computer and double-check what it said to do. Recipe software can save space in your home because you don't need a huge book for just the few recipes you want to make out of it.
The recipes you get from your friends and cooking companions are easily entered and searched. If you want to make something with chicken for dinner, but don't know what, you can search 'chicken' and find your recipes for chicken. It can be an easy way to try out new recipes if you get additional cookbooks using the same software format. Just download and use.
Cooking seems to be a lost art made more difficult for beginners by the overwhelming amount of information available on it. There is gourmet cooking and down home cooking, frugal cooking and luxury cooking. Cooking for dummies and cooking for geniuses, but once you have learned how to cook, you need a way to be able to keep your favorite recipes organized. Recipe software can be a space and sanity saving solution. Knowing how easy it is to access just exactly the recipe you want will save you time and money because you can certain of having all the necessary ingredients before you start cooking.
