Do You Enjoy Reading Recipes

Jules

Jules

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Do you enjoy reading recipes, online or in books? Do you do it often?

If I search for a recipe, it’s not uncommon for me to read for an hour or more. I go down a rabbit hole. It motivates me to cook new things. Last night I finally found a recipe I wanted for a chicken based dinner. Wouldn’t you know it, I was missing the pesto. So I decided on another recipe. Missing two spices and herbs so that one I just modified.

I did copy three recipes to my files so will now be buying pesto and sun dried tomatoes and spinach. I’d better check the freezer to see if I still have chicken.
 

Yes, it is so easy to fall into that deep black hole. I love to cook but I wish someone would come and do the clean up. I find myself cooking a whole day to have choices in the fridge.

Cook, put some in the fridge for the week and put some in the freezer for future meals when I am not up to cooking. One day cooking and clean up makes sure I don't have to do it every day.
 

Yes, my source is the New York Times cooking section. I hate going out, so in order to minimize the boredom I try some new things every now and then. Once in a while a random ggl if I can't find it in the NYT. I have a lot of cookbooks and I NEVER open them.

An all time NYT favorite

Its flavorful, easy, and quick! If nothing else try the sub-recipe for siracha cashews.
 
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Jules said:
Do you enjoy reading recipes, online or in books? Do you do it often?

If I search for a recipe, it’s not uncommon for me to read for an hour or more. I go down a rabbit hole. It motivates me to cook new things. Last night I finally found a recipe I wanted for a chicken based dinner. Wouldn’t you know it, I was missing the pesto. So I decided on another recipe. Missing two spices and herbs so that one I just modified.

I did copy three recipes to my files so will now be buying pesto and sun dried tomatoes and spinach. I’d better check the freezer to see if I still have chicken.
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Always. Books, online, magazines and newspapers, any where I find them.
 
againstthegrain said:
Yes, my source is the New York Times cooking section. I hate going out, so in order to minimize the boredom I try some new things every now and then. Once in a while a random ggl if I can't find it in the NYT. I have a lot of cookbooks and I NEVER open them.

An all time NYT favorite

Its flavorful, easy, and quick! If nothing else try the sub-recipe for siracha cashews.
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Yum. I also find them on this forum! 🍤🍰🍵🍢🍠🍝🍜🌮🍔🍗🍄
 
All the time. I'll still get in my collection of books at home & reread them.

The only books I get from the library are cookbooks. If I get one that I really like, then I'll buy it. My local branch used to have a great cookbook selection, but when they moved it was downsized by using smaller height shelves. :(

I like the magazine Taste of Home real well. I can also fall down the rabbit hole on Pinterest.
 
Yes, I love to discover new recipes online! My favorite is on YouTube and I follow many keto food channels. When I first got my Instant Pot, that is how I learned to use it. With a video you can just follow the video and stop it while you are doing each step of the recipe. I think that is why I find following the keto lifestyle so easy and tasty because I can make my own food.
 
Up till recently, I'd enjoyed saving all my recipes to an Android app called "My Cookery Book". You could input a pic, your ingredients and his to do it. You could also print it in PDF.

As I was changing to a new tablet, I reinstalled the app and transferred a copy of their backup (which I'd put up-to-date). Unfortunately, it didn't work.

Which means I've lost 90 recipes which I'd entered for the future. Now, I've cleared the old tablet so everything's gone. I've to start from scratch. Lovely isn't it and the makers of said app won't help at all UNLESS you've purchased an ad free version.

Feeling currently 👿👿👿 stay away from Tambucho app!
 
Any recipes I‘m interested in get copied to my iPad into folders. That allows me to make comments on them. Or delete them if they’re a failure. For my old recipes that I ripped from magazines and stored in paper folders, I take a photo. If they’re real favourites, I transcribe them.

Someday these will become my version of Grandma’s cookbook to hand down to the GKs.
 
I help with cooking. I think recipes are meant as a way to generate ideas. Once tried modifying/experimenting with one to try in another way can be fun.
My help not only extends to hands on prep but my real job is clean up.

An example of recipe modification would be taking a regular potato gnocchi and adding garlic powder to part of a batch, basil to another & last but not least making them larger to stuff the center with cheese. The cheese ones pan fried in butter come out great.

Not all recipes are easy to follow. I arrange them in an order that makes sense. For my wifes convenience, I rewrite some of them, put that on a notepad into the file for she has for the variety she has. Those are stored on her P/C & synced to her laptop that she has just for use in the kitchen.
 
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A few years ago, I finally got around to typing all of my recipes into the computer so they can go on a disc & then to the safety box so we would always have them. After a neighbor lost everything, it put our hind-ends in gear to get important stuff to a safe place.

I still have my everyday recipes in (4) 3-ring binders that hold 8 1/2 x 5 1/5 sheets. Will be shortly adding a 5th. I started out with this size when I bought a cute binder in a gift store for your own recipes when I got married & just stayed with the size.

To keep all of the magazine pages & printouts in some type of order, I labeled file folders & keep them in a box like this. Everyone once & a while I'll go through to see if I would ever really make it or it needs to go.
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I've got my mum's old cookery books and one of my grandmas. I used to love looking at the cakes and things in one of my mums. All black and white pictures. Then an updated version of the same book in colour.
Spent lots of money when I was a teenager buying monthly cards that were kept in a box. Never used them.
Lots of other cookery books here.
I used to love cooking.
Now I hate cooking. The good thing about that is I'll never be fat. :)
I do eat, just not really interested in food very much.
 
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