Recipe Hoarder

I admit it I am, in fact, a recipe hoarder.  I just can't help it. I see a recipe magazine and I immediately drool. Not necessarily because of the food itself, just the recipes. I'm weird like that, but I'm ok with it.  There were several  many years that I lugged those magazines with me everywhere I moved. I had started a recipe book of my own, pasting each recipe I cut out on a page set up like a cookbook, arranging them to maximize the number of recipes on each page. It was quite tedious, I had A LOT of magazines back then. Oh who am I kidding? I still have a bunch.

Don't get me started on the number of cookbooks I have.  Even after paring down some I still have close to a bookcase full of them. I read the things like some women read romance novels.  Growing up I would imagine I was a housewife throwing some fancy party. I knew all the "appropriate" ways to set up a table, what to serve, and when. Well, at least according to Betty Crocker, lol!

My biggest problem is I would mark a recipe to try and though sometimes it happened, most of the time I set it down and completely forgot about it, until the next time I picked up that particular magazine or cookbook.  Organizing all of those bits of paper was time consuming, to say the least.  It was rather overwhelming, even now.  Now, though, thank goodness for computers and scanners.  It still takes some time to scan it, name it and the sort in the correct category, but it is sooooo much easier.  My darling husband was helping me scan when he was working from home when he could. I'm not kidding when I say I have a lot of recipes.  This has been an ongoing project (on and off) for several years.  I still have a lot to do, but the pile is almost gone, YAY!

Now that I have the majority of the recipes at my fingertips by way of the search function, I've decided to utilize at least one (or more) recipe each week and document how it was received by the family and/or how it was to make it.   I have a ton of recipes that I have found from various food blogs and sites, so if I use one of those I will most certainly attribute and link to the site. I also tend to make dinners on the fly, so to speak.  There have been several times, the kids have asked me to make it again and I have forgotten what I did.  Oops.   I'll put those here as well, so there is a record of at least what was in it.  :-)

I hope you have a most wonderful day!

Mrs. Bissinger