MY RECIPE JOURNAL

Wow I got tons done today..  Straightened up an area of the house that was bugging me, 3 giants loads of wash, cleaned and put away.. All our finance stuff up to date, a card for NeeNee, and even all our Christmas gifts ordered for the kids in our family... 

And and and.. I updated my Recipe Journal with all my recent Raw or Vegan finds.....  What is a Recipe Journal you may ask??   I shall show you... 

There, Now you know what it is?? hee hee....

OK, so a couple years ago, I decided it was a PAIN to go through all the cookbooks to find that one favorite recipe that I forgot which cookbook it was in. 

OR going through all the pages of a cookbook to find the one page I was needing...

OR going through a 1000 sheets of paper printouts to figure out what I felt like making that day.... 

OR digging deep in to the hole of my brain to remember how I made that one little thing... that I really wanted but couldn't remember all the ingredients I used.

And I couldn't stand my cluttered cabinet FILLED with all this stuff...

Surely you've been there and know what I'm talking about....

If not then ignore this post and move on.... *smile*

Well it was such a waste of time and I started to just stop looking and got in a food rut and got annoyed.... Until I thought up a Recipe Journal.... Think of a Scrapbook for Recipes.

The beginning is full of a list with all my favorite foods that don't require recipes, so I could see at a glance when I needed inspiration.  And then the next pages have the names of each of my favorite cookbooks and page numbers of the recipes I like out of those books:

(Ignore my handwriting please)

Exhibit A:

Further in to the book,  I have cut out the pieces of recipes that I printed from the web or from emails etc. And folded them up and taped to pages to fit in the book.  All other papers got recycled and OUT of my cabinet.   The ones that made it in to my journal are only tried and true and likable... So it contains our own rating system.

Exhibit B:

And then there are the recipes that I try and concoct or make my own.  There are many of these... And some pages are really messy, where I add more ingredients or take away as time goes on. 

These are the ones, that if I get hit by a bus.. Hubby could still recreate all their favorite things...

And so now you know what a Vegmom Recipe Journal is...

My journal is pretty full as you can tell... Now I'm adding all the Raw food stuffs... and its getting really full... I may need another journal:

But my recipe cabinet is well organized....  And I have no Recipe Stress...  Yay!

And a very productive day, Double Yay!!