As far as I am concerned, I collect only recipes that sound good to me. I don't save recipes that contain ingredients or cooking methods that I dislike. My recipe collection is in three main folders, each one with subfolders, in my documents on the hard drive. All recipes are in plain text format.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vicky Dalchau Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CnD] Question for the list. are you filing your recipes on a web based server ie gmail, or in a folder on your own software, or documents/program on your own hard drive?. Do you select just the recipes you are now interested in or file all the incoming recipes (in case of a future interest) ...v On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM, leverenz <[email protected]> wrote: > I pretty much do the same as immagrant. Oyster casserole would go in > my sea food folder However, I make sure that in the title (even if I have to change name) will also put in ingredients I know I might look for... > example: given name = fish bake > but after reading find out it is a casserole that uses wite fish and > has mushrooms in it I will rename it mushroom white fish casserole > doing it this way I can go into my seafood folder in that folder I > have other folders like shrimp, salmon etc. but having the mushrooms listed first I can just go down my list using the letter m pop to mushroom and then look for a dish I want to make... that is if I have mushrooms and looking for something to use them with *smile* I am redoing my entire cookbook which has taken on a life of its own, but even now I can already see if I have layered a recipe too deep into folers or have to rename it. so you will have to work with it and decide what types of listings work for you... > good luck > Dee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Immigrant" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 1:25 PM > Subject: Re: [CnD] Question for the list. > > > I personally don't have a folder for casseroles. So, an oyster > casserole would go into my seafood folder. Otherwise, if a recipe > overlaps a couple of categories, I put it into the category where the > most pronounced ingredient belongs. For example, "cheesy mushroom fish > bake" will go into the seafood folder, not the mushrooms folder, > because fish, not mushrooms, would be the main ingredient. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kerry > Friddell > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CnD] Question for the list. > > Where would you file a recipe that could go into 2 or more folders > such as (oyster casserole), that could go in the folder called: > seafood, or the folder called casseroles? Thanks for your input. Kerry > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > Scanned by the Barracuda Spam Firewall at CPWS Broadband > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
