"FERRANTE" > wrote in message
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>I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
> recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
> last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
> use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
> created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes

No

> and mainly using the Internet?
>

No, not for recipes

> Mark

On Apr 10, 4:28*pm, FERRANTE > wrote:
> I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
> recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
> last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
> use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
> created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
> and mainly using the Internet?
>
> Mark

Hehehe. cookbooks, websearches, and print recipes get combined in my
house. If I want to make something that I haven't done before, I'll
track down at least 5 versions of it in various media, compare, and
intermingle them to obtain something that sounds like it'll be good.
Usually, it is.

maxine in ri

FERRANTE wrote:
>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
> and mainly using the Internet?

The Internet doesn't really affect me, because
I rarely cook from a recipe. Almost everything
I make from scratch is my own creation, and
I don't need a recipe to tell me how to make it.
I usually change them a little each time, in a
process of incremental improvement. I would
only use a recipe as a starting point. The
last time I followed a recipe was Lidia
Bastianich's spinach gnudi, though I don't
know if I'll repeat that one.

By the way, you're running Windows, right?
Your time automatically advanced by an hour
when Windows expected the time to change,
but Congress moved it to appease the people
who make BBQ equipment and supplies.

"FERRANTE" > wrote in message
news
> I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
> recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
> last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
> use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
> created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
> and mainly using the Internet?
>
> Mark

Still use them all, but I've shifted from cookbooks to the internet. It was
20/80 and is now 80/20. Mostly, if I want to make a particular meal or what
to do with a new veggie I want to try I do a search and get some ideas, then
do what I want. I do keep an extensive file of recipes but instead of t
ping from a book, it is probably copy and paste from a web site now. The
rare printed recipe I want is scanned and then OCR does the rest.

FERRANTE wrote:
> I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
> recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
> last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
> use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
> created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
> and mainly using the Internet?

I'd say it's about 50/50 for me. And I'm creating a "cookbook" of the
recipes I pull off the internet and like -- I slip the printout into a
sheet protector in a three-ring binder -- so the internet recipes are
referred to in printed form now, too.

Serene

--
"I tend to come down on the side of autonomy. Once people are grown up,
I believe they have the right to go to hell in the handbasket of their
choosing." -- Pat Kight, on alt.polyamory

I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
created recipes "boxes" on those sites.

Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
and mainly using the Internet?

Mark

FERRANTE wrote:
>
> I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
> recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
> last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
> use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
> created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
> and mainly using the Internet?
>
> Mark

I find a great many of the recipes I use on Internet sites. I do not
however use any site's "recipe box" feature, rather I copy and save
recipes I like. Ones I make with some frequency are printed and in a
small stack in the cabinet with my various cookbooks.

On Apr 10, 4:28*pm, FERRANTE > wrote:

>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
> and mainly using the Internet?


No. In fact, I'm redoing my tried and trues, writing it out in chron
order. No nasty surprises at the end when it calls for the yolk I
threw out earlier. I'm doing them in with large print for old eyes -
one to a sheet, will be in plastic sleeves. Indexed too.

If I do get something off the Internet, it gets rewritten too if I
want to use it again.

FERRANTE wrote on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:28:09 -0500:

> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe
> boxes and mainly using the Internet?

I keep most of my recipes in a computer folder called "Food". Those that
I have tested and will make again are in a sub-folder called "Tested"
(of course :-) I try to remember to copy all my popular recipes from my
cook books to Tested. My usual practice is to print out a fresh copy
whenever I need a recipe and then I don't need to worry about spills and
splashes.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

In article >,
FERRANTE > wrote:

> I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
> recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
> last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
> use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
> created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
> and mainly using the Internet?
>
> Mark


My recipe files are electronic. They come from a variety of sources.


--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
Updated 4-2-2010

In article >,
"James Silverton" > wrote:
My usual practice is to print out a fresh copy
> whenever I need a recipe and then I don't need to worry about spills and
> splashes.

So much for a paperless society. :-\
I do the same, mostly. 8-\


--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
Updated 4-2-2010

Melba's wrote on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:40:40 -0500:

> In article >,
> "James Silverton" > wrote:
> My usual practice is to print out a fresh copy
>> whenever I need a recipe and then I don't need to worry about
>> spills and splashes.

> So much for a paperless society. :-\
> I do the same, mostly. 8-\

I've felt a little guilty about that but the paper I use in my printer
is made from recycled materials.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Serene Vannoy wrote:
> FERRANTE wrote:
>> I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
>> recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
>> last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
>> use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
>> created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>>
>> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
>> and mainly using the Internet?
>
> I'd say it's about 50/50 for me. And I'm creating a "cookbook" of the
> recipes I pull off the internet and like -- I slip the printout into a
> sheet protector in a three-ring binder -- so the internet recipes are
> referred to in printed form now, too.
>
> Serene
>

I finally did this with all my printed out recipes. I have two binders,
one for sweet and another for savory. I was driving myself crazy digging
through piles of printouts. I am much happier now.

-Tracy

James Silverton wrote:
>
> Melba's wrote on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:40:40 -0500:
>
> > In article >,
> > "James Silverton" > wrote:
> > My usual practice is to print out a fresh copy
> >> whenever I need a recipe and then I don't need to worry about
> >> spills and splashes.
>
> > So much for a paperless society. :-\
> > I do the same, mostly. 8-\
>
> I've felt a little guilty about that but the paper I use in my printer
> is made from recycled materials.

Paper = wood = renewable resource

FERRANTE wrote:
> I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
> recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
> last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
> use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
> created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>
> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
> and mainly using the Internet?
>
> Mark

Yes, but mainly because I can't even GET to my cookbooks, which
are buried behind heaps of other cookbooks. That will change
soon, at which point I will see how much I look at my cookbooks.

Recipe boxes? I never used one. I do have many notebooks full of
recipes, and four file cabinet drawers full of printouts. I
stopped doing printouts of all my saved files. That is both good
and bad, because some of the esoteric sites disappear.

--
Jean B.

On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:28:09 -0500, FERRANTE
> wrote:

>I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index card
>recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I looked in it
>last time. While I do still tear out recipes from magazines, I seldom
>use cookbooks anymore, opting for Internet recipe sites where I have
>created recipes "boxes" on those sites.
>
>Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe boxes
>and mainly using the Internet?
>
Mainly the internet. I have a lot of recipes stored on my computer
now, so it's a second followed by recipe cards. I rarely crack a
cookbook anymore but I know as soon as I thin them out, I'll need what
I don't have.


--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jean wrote on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:14:30 -0400:

> FERRANTE wrote:
>> I was looking for a recipe which I had stored in an old index
>> card recipe box and was thinking how long it had been since I
>> looked in it last time. While I do still tear out recipes
>> from magazines, I seldom use cookbooks anymore, opting for
>> Internet recipe sites where I have created recipes "boxes" on
>> those sites.
>>
>> Do you find yourself referring less to your cookbooks, recipe
>> boxes and mainly using the Internet?
>>
>> Mark

> Yes, but mainly because I can't even GET to my cookbooks,
> which are buried behind heaps of other cookbooks. That will
> change soon, at which point I will see how much I look at my
> cookbooks.

> Recipe boxes? I never used one. I do have many notebooks
> full of recipes, and four file cabinet drawers full of
> printouts. I stopped doing printouts of all my saved files. That is
> both good and bad, because some of the esoteric sites disappear.

I do sometimes forget the name of a recipe but I have found that Google
desktop search finds recipes if I can remember a few things about them.
For example searching on
soup jicama

instantaneously brings up my recipe for gazpacho and also lists a number
of posts on this topic that I have made to rec.foods.cooking.

James Silverton wrote:
> I do sometimes forget the name of a recipe but I have found that Google
> desktop search finds recipes if I can remember a few things about them.
> For example searching on
> soup jicama
>
> instantaneously brings up my recipe for gazpacho and also lists a number
> of posts on this topic that I have made to rec.foods.cooking.
>
I need to remember to use that more!

--
Jean B.