I’ve been using a cool little Mac application for awhile now and I think it’s going to stay in the repertoire.
I’ll admit it, I’m an organizational nut. I like everything in its place, and I hate clutter. I also hate having to hunt for things. Isn’t it nice when you are looking for something and it’s right there at your fingertips? I also collect cookbooks, but within reason. They have to all fit into our one (big) bookcase. And since said bookcase is full, that means we now have a one-in-one-out policy now. If I come home with a new cookbook, one of the old ones just has to go. Makes it a bit better because I now really, really think about whether or not I “need” that new book or is it just an impulse buy.
But I have also collected a multitude of clippings from newspapers and magazines and on recipe websites (most notably the Food Network) as well as recipes from friends and family over the years. And those all ended up in a big binder.
So here’s the problem…make a recipe once…and six months later… or even sooner… and just try to find it again.
Enter MacGourmet.
I managed to copy over all of my clippings into MacGourmet. Many of them were from Bon Apetit and Gourmet Magazines and these can all be found online at Epicurious. Cool trick, Epicurious recipes can be imported directly into MacGourmet complete with picture!
Some I had to type in and others I found and was able to “clip” into MacGourmet and format properly.
I can either have my computer in the kitchen with me and use the recipe directly from the screen, or print it out. But seeing as how I am trying to reduce paper in my life, the former is working just fine.
So what about all those recipes in my own books? Easy. I just created entries in MacGourmet but instead of a recipe, they give me a book title and a page number to find it.
All neat and tidy, just the way I like it.
Tags: cooking, mac, organization, software