I've been cleaning stuff lately, maybe you have too. Sort of an early spring cleaning or
squeaky clean new year attempt. The catch-all drawer in the kitchen could use a
weekly sorting. Sometimes I get lost in what I find.
This time I sat down with my folders of recipes and other magazine clippings--such
as house ideas ... but mainly recipes ... determined to purge. I well remembered
my zest and youthful enthusiasm at the time of clipping ... "this would make such a good
dinner for us ..." my mouth watering in contemplation. Have I made most of them?
No, probably not even a few (But it's fun to dream, even about recipes.)
And I was aghast to find some all the way back to 1982.
Talk about "retro" recipes and magazine clippings.
Talk about "retro" recipes and magazine clippings.
I was nicely entertained as I happily tossed and chose a few
to keep, making my files much thinner. The reason that it was easy to toss this
time around is the internet. I seem to go there more and more for recipes.
"Just google it" and up come more than a few choices, not to mention all the
delicious recipes found on favorite blogs.
I save them now on P*nterest ... making it quite convenient to find them.
I save them now on P*nterest ... making it quite convenient to find them.
Hang on to your hats … what new things will seem "matter of fact" ten years from now?
I have been saving Net recipes to a pinterest folder as well and like you I have many recipes saved from ages ago that I still have not made :)
ReplyDeleteThings have certainly changed... I STILL have my 2 boxes of clipped, torn out, handwritten on scraps of paper recipes... {sigh} Maybe one day I can let them go. ;) Its closer! Congratulations on your successful purging, Dotsie! blessings ~ tanna
ReplyDeleteI keep trying to purge clippings. I need to also purge cooking magazines. There are two on my desk right now: Gourmet Nov. 1978 and Bon Apetit Oct 1980. Even though I only use a few recipes from each one, I can let those tattered copies go.
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Bonnie
Ah, yes. Something I need to do is clean out all the recipes torn from magazines and stored in the kitchen. I've been doing this for years too and rarely make any of the recipes either. I think we have good intentions to make something wonderfully different, then stick with what we know and is comfortable.
ReplyDeleteJudith
I find that I am somewhere between 20th and 21st centuries. On the one hand, I still have scads of recipes (handwritten, clipped from magazines or the local newspaper, typed) organized into recipe notebooks. On the other hand, I go to the internet for recipes, sometimes even choosing to read a recipe from my own blog, rather than look it up in my files!
ReplyDeleteHooray for thinner files!
This chore is actually on my agenda this week as we are rearranging some things in our kitchen today. I've not been very successful in the past. I have a file box in my basement from 20 years ago that I've tried unsuccessfully to throw out! I don't understand myself!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am using the iPad almost exclusively for recipes in the kitchen. I'm saving a fortune in ink! The only recipes I don't readily find on the www are those from my grandmother's and great-grandmother's generation. So few of them "hold" up anyway or, at least, that's what I've discovered. I remember a friend of mine who was one of the first to get a home computer saying that in ten year's time, every home would need one. Now I suppose that I could get along without one, but I wouldn't want to. I should do the very same thing you've done. I will say, though, that I love looking through someone's beautifully done notebooks or scrapbooks, They're as much fun as Pinterest.
ReplyDeleteHa ha...we all do that!!! I am in dire need of doing a linen closet cleaning! I dread it!!!
ReplyDeletexo Kris
We have some tried and true recipes that are still on paper but we often look up recipes online too.
ReplyDeleteIt seems we all are sorting, organizing, and getting ready for the year ahead!
Deanna
I have a folder like that, dating back to the 1970s. You've inspired me to take another look at it...and probably to ditch it!
ReplyDeleteI have a folder like that, dating back to the 1970s. You've inspired me to take another look at it...and probably to ditch it!
ReplyDeleteI need to do some cleaning but just can't bring myself to start. Well, actually, I did make a start, but that was only one day and I didn't get very far. I have all sorts of recipes and such saved and definitely need to do a good clear out. Especially since I am vegetarian and mostly vegan ... so many recipes I've saved wouldn't even work for me now. Have a great week. Tammy
ReplyDeleteWhat a great task to do! I need to do that too. I have too many cookbooks and pieces of paper from magazines or ones I've copied from blogs etc. I think I'm going to make the delicious recipe and never do. I have thrown a few out recently but really need to go through my books. My friend typed up her favourites and printed them off then put them in plastic sleeves in a nice binder. She got rid of all the unused ones and loose bits of paper and messy writing.
ReplyDeleteI so hear you, Dotsie. I bought a recipe book to tape my clippings in, something to do on a rainy day and got bored with it! I still head for Pinterest or The Food Network for most recipes. And I continue to tear recipes out of magazines and forget what they were 5 minutes later. I was good for awhile, choosing 2-3 recipes to make a week and jotting down the things I needed on my grocery list. But I go through cooking phases like that.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on purging my books. It's a little sad! :(
XO,
Jane
I used to have lots of clippings of ideas recipes etc. I now have one little file folder of a few all time favorites. You are so right about the recipes. What is it about reading a great tasting recipe that makes us think we will make it someday? And now as you say, everything is so easily available online.
ReplyDeleteHope you got to enjoy the lovely day before it began to get cold and grey.
I remember thinking that I would never want a computer in the kitchen. But now, I often set my laptop on the counter to refer to a recipe. When I think of how much things have changed in the past 10 or 15 years, I can't even imagine what the next 10 or 15 will hold in the way of technological advances. I find it overwhelming sometimes. But then I remember Who knows the future.
ReplyDeletePurging is a good idea. Something else I should do.
Yes Pinterest...my favorite go to spot these days.
ReplyDeleteburning the papers, etc... today in the fireplace!
ReplyDeleteI'm always asking myself that...what could possibly be more than this??? and then I find out!
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to get lost in what one finds in drawers and files. This recipe purging post reminded me that I need to go through a picnic basket full of recipes saved by my Mother for over 50 years....she never purged!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad she didn't...my grandmothers recipe books are there, too...dating back to 1913. Talk about 'Matter of Fact' in 10 years...how about 101 years!
Sue CollectInTexas Gal
Good for you! That must have been so satisfying. I often put my Noteboook on the kitchen counter and google away.
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ReplyDeleteGood for you, dear friend!!!
Doesn't it make you feel "lighter" after the process has been completed???
Now, what's for supper???
Fondly,
Pat