Recipes galore!

I haven't written about my progress on recipes lately. At the moment, I'm up to 187 recipes sorted, typed, and stored in a recipe folder on my computer under Word (soon to be 192...I have 5 recipe cards of Oreo desserts I'm going to type in after I'm done with this blog post...who knew you could do so much with Oreos?!)

It's a fairly fun project. It's easy to get burned-out on it, so I haven't been working on it as much the last couple of weeks as I did when I first started on it. My plan is to categorize, when I'm all done, into the different types of meals (desserts, main dish, breakfast, etc...) and then...if I get really ambitious and nit-picky...make an index of the ingredients used in each. I just think it's handy, if you have a particular ingredient that you want to use up in your cabinet, to pick out a recipe based on that. That's the plan at this point, anyways.

The funny thing is, I haven't even touched our actual recipe books yet. These recipes so far are all coming from clippings from the Internet over the years and random magazines that Mom will use once or twice and then forget about. Our method is for her to pick out her favorite recipes from the magazines, and then I pick out mine, and I type them in and we're tossing them as I get through with them. And, unknown to my mom, probably, I'm throwing away a bunch of the printed off recipes at my own discretion. There's so many that she literally never uses that she won't miss them if I don't put them in. A lot of them are from times, again, where she had something particular to get rid of, so she would print off 4 or 5 different recipes with that ingredient, and the papers would end up in the drawer never to be used again. Never again!!

The even funnier irony as I type in these recipes is that the dessert ratio is tending to be about every 3rd recipe. Good gracious. Again, it's not like we ever consistently use any of these. I keep teasing my mom that I'm not going to have enough meals to make next year, because all of my recipes are going to be desserts. And casseroles. Lots of casseroles, and salads. Not that many main dishes. Hopefully that will be fixed once I get into the actual cookbooks.