

Several years ago I started using Evernote and it’s the kind of tech solution that can change your life. Now I have one, so let me tell you about one of my favourite tech secrets for saving, searching, tagging and actually using the recipes I collect.īasically my system makes building a recipe library quick, simple and fully searchable. What I didn’t have was one easy, convenient and most of all, searchable recipe catalogue. I had lots of recipes, meal ideas, meal inspiration. That used to be my life… and you can imagine what my kitchen looked like. Some of the binders were literally bursting at the seams because there were so many recipes that inspired me and that I couldn’t wait to try.

Handwritten recipes on paper, cards or even scraps of napkin, recipes printed off blogs (with due credit of course!), recipes yanked from glossy magazines (Alive Magazine now… and maybe Cooking Light back in the day), and of course the occasional typed recipe… Picture this: Binders of all shapes and sizes stuffed with recipes.
