Clutter Control: The Recipe File
By
Jeri Dansky
How many untested recipes do you need to keep? My own recipe box was close to overflowing, so I just did a major de-clutterering.
I got rid of:
Recipes that were too complex. I just don't have the time for those!
Recipes using unusual ingredients which would then just sit in my closet for years - unless I happened to really love that recipe.
Recipes that called for large amounts of cream or other ingredients I'm trying to (mostly) avoid.
Recipes with combinations of ingredients that just didn't sound good to me any more.
Recipes that just don't fit the style of cooking I do. For example, I like to cook soups that are thick with pureed vegetables - so I eliminated recipes for soups that don't fit that mode.
Recipes that didn't have anything truly special about them. It's easy enough to find a good basic recipe for almost anything on-line, so I don't need to keep one just in case I want to make a blueberry muffin, for example.
Now my file has plenty of breathing space, so it's easy to put new recipes away and find those I'm ready to use.
Posted October 10, 2007, filed in How I de-cluttered, Less is More, Clutter Hacks
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