The first thing I did was to make a list of resources. By resources I mean the places I usually depend on for recipes. Somehow I keep adding to my list so my rotation keeps getting spread out. The following list is what I use, but it is just an example of some of the resources that are available. You can customize your own list.
- Cookbook - Like most people who like to cook, I have a lot of cookbooks, so I just pick one (and only one) cookbook each time it comes around in my rotation and choose recipes from that ONE cookbook.
- Regular Meals - These are the recipes that you have made before and liked well enough to write down wherever you save them. You may have only made these meals once, but if you wrote it down, they are worth making again on a regular basis. These are not to be confused with Favorites.
- Favorites - These are the recipes in your head. The ones that you have in your head that don't need to be written down. For example, gumbo....it's my husbands recipe actually and he taught me how to make it. I have made it so many times that I don't need any guidance.
- Leftovers - I have a document with a list of ways I can reinvent leftovers from a variety of things. We are just a family of 3 so if I make a big roast or something, it is nice to make the leftover roast into something new the next day. I put 10 recipes in the rotation, but I have to make sure that I make a notation that this is a leftover recipe for scheduling it a day after I make the main ingredient.
- New Magazine - I am way behind on reading my magazines. they are neatly stacked behind closed doors in my family room bookcase. When it is time to use recipes from a new magazine in the rotation, I pick the next magazine in line from the bottom of the stack. I take a piece of paper and pencil and write down the recipe and page number of the recipe on the paper. When I am done, I stick the paper in the front of the magazine and place the magazine on a shelf in my kitchen where I can find it.
- Old Magazine - You don't think I throw them away do you? Well, I need to, probably, after I have gotten all I can out of them. I use the same method as I do with new magazines, so I am methodically getting rid of old magazines as I rotate through.
- Foodnetwork - I have a recipe file on Foodnetwork. It is a tool I use to save recipes that I see on their website from their shows. I only use 10 at a time in my rotation.
- Email - At one time, I would send myself emails with recipes that I like. I just store them there, but that just makes me have a lot of email. So I apply about 10 recipes at each rotation. I delete them after I have made them.
- Blogs - I'm addicted to blogs. I have bookmarked a lot of them. I pick one blog and select 10 recipes to use from that blog.
- Pioneer Woman Website - Technically, this is a blog, but I separate it out because I just love her food so much and she is constantly adding new things. Again, I only select 10 culprits.
- Tasty Kitchen - I love Tasty Kitchen! So it's 10 again for the rotation. I like even numbers!
- Recipe Bookmarks - These are all the recipes that I have saved to my bookmarks from around the web. Would you like to guess how many I use in a rotation?.....10!
- Once a Month Cooking - I have a list of recipes I would like to try to consider for freezing. If the family likes it, then it has passed the test and will be placed on my regular meals rotation with a notation to double, triple, etc. 10 please.
- Pinterest - My newest addiction. I have lots of pins for food. I select 10 for the rotation.
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