Recipes

I will admit that I have a bit of a recipe obsession.  I love to collect new ones however they tend to get stuffed into any out of the way space I can find for them never to be made.  I at least got to the point where I just tore them out of magazines instead of keeping the whole magazine but still had about 4 hiding places for them around the house.  The other night I got a chance to go through and collect them all up and organize them, I had some that I know for a fact are 7 years old and I still haven't made them.  I got out my trusty 3-hole punch and organized them by category into a binder.  Any new recipes go into the binder and when I am in the mood to try something new I can open it up and pull one out.  Once a recipe has been tried it will either be tossed if it doesn't meet approval or be put onto an index card and moved to my recipe card drawer.  And yes, I do have a drawer specifically for my recipe cards in the kitchen.  I won't even get started on the cook books.