My Recipe System

Robb’s Weeknote #2023 pointed me to Sophie’s Digital recipe management for fastidious cooks and that forced me to think again about the no-longer-very-plastic plastic folder I have crammed with physical copies of recipes torn from all sorts of places. Roughly every three months, as I shift scraps of paper in search for one I know is in there, I swear to myself I will, like Sophie, snap them and OCR the image. I haven’t, and I never will, but I give myself points for thinking about it. Of course, in this digital age, I no longer tear pages out of newspapers and magazines. I’m way too sophisticated for that. Instead I use one of two browser extensions to save an online page as a text file. But I don’t save that either. For most recipes, if I plan to cook them, I need even less verbiage. It comes down to a list of ingredients and a sequence of actions. So that’s what I store. In that way, Cook and drain the pasta. Add the hot pasta to the dressing along with the chicken and toss until…