February 1, 2011 - Today's Project: Recipes

Well our internet is currently down due to the storm (according to the news it’s the “STORM OF THE CENTURY!!”), but we still have power so I can at least use Microsoft Word to type this for now.  I’ll just have to post it later.

I don’t usually cook directly from recipes, but I do like to keep some around to consult every now and then, especially when I am in a dessert-making mood.  Unfortunately, I tend either to write down recipes on scraps of paper that are readily available when I am cooking, or I print a recipe off of the internet and scribble my notes all over it.  So in one of the kitchen cabinets there was a pile of random papers with recipes (okay, mostly illegible scribbles) on them.  Most of the recipes weren’t even labeled with what they were.  Here are some examples of my record-keeping skills:

In the spirit of my newly organized kitchen, I decided to tackle the recipes as well.  So today I typed them all up, printed them out, and put them in a binder in plastic page protectors.  There aren’t any pretty pictures or anything, but it suits my purposes.  I did have some recipes that I had typed up before in efforts to make them look presentable to others (or at least legible).  Many of these I had made changes to in pencil since they were printed, or they were covered in food because I am a messy cook.  They were still on my computer though, so I made my changes and reprinted them to add to my binder.  This is what my recipes look like now:

 

Hooray!  And now when I spill food everywhere I can just wipe it off. 

I can’t wait to go outside tomorrow to take pictures of the snow!  We are supposed to have something like 2 feet by morning.  Scott’s boss said they should “try” to get to work tomorrow, but if the roads are too bad it is okay to call off.  Scott seems to think working tomorrow is a good idea, but I have been trying to convince him he should stay home to have a snow day with me.  Hot chocolate and snow forts!!  I mean, come on!