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Rein-in Your Recipes
While my kitchen renovation is happening and my house is in a state of chaos, I decided to gain some control over one small area that had been bothering me: my recipes. 
Favorite recipes used to be easily contained in the small accordion file my mom gave me for my wedding engagement, but now the file was bursting at the seams. I also started to wedge recipes I had printed or pulled from magazines between the cookbooks on my shelf. It was turning into a jumble of papers. And then I had the small index file with recipes written on old-fashioned recipe cards that was stuffed too.
I emptied the accordion file and the recipe card box, and pulled out all the loose recipes. Now what to do? Sort! I spread them all over the floor and started to group them into categories.
Next, I purged recipes that I had in duplicate or that I knew I'd never make. I also found a ton of recipes I had forgotten about.
Now for the fun part: I put all the recipes to keep in a binder! Actually, two binders. I had this solution in mind and was ready with tabs and hundreds of plastic sleeves.
The result? Recipes are sorted by categories, and all easily visible in the sleeves. I can also pull out the sleeves for cooking and the recipes won't get dirty or damp.
Can't wait to cook again! | 
