New Kitchen - need cookbook to try every recipe

[Angst]

Originally Posted by FatDog

Ok - new question. What do you do to organize your recipes - especially for your e-reader.

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Being able to make notes about techniques & results is a valuable feature in a recipe manager.

What do you guys suggest?

I prefer paperbacks for recipes. For digital recipes I use My Cookbook Pro on an Android smartphone. It has the added advantage of being able to add all of the ingredients for a recipe to a shopping list. It works because I don't have a lot of digital recipes. After 75 or so, they want money.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by FatDog

Ok - new question. What do you do to organize your recipes - especially for your e-reader.

I have heard a lot of good things about "Paprika" recipe manager. It has a built-in browser you use and it will import recipes from most web pages. One woman uses her mac to enter, categorize & write notes, but uses her tablet in the kitchen. They have Windows, Android, Mac and Kindle versions.

A woman in my cooking class at Sur La Table says I should use Pinterest and simply create boards. The beauty of a web-based solution is it is also cross-platform.

Note: Tonight I tried the Pioneer Woman - Braised Short Ribs and Serious Eats Polenta. The meat was great, but the polenta took a long time and was rather tasteless. I followed the Serious Eats - Food Lab recipe. (The Pioneer Woman added a lot of cheese to hers.)

Being able to make notes about techniques & results is a valuable feature in a recipe manager.

What do you guys suggest?

I use Paprika. I've got a mac and and iPad, so I enter it on the Mac and read in the kitchen on the iPad. It's easy enough to make notes and all. If I happen to run across an interesting recipe on the web, I just cut and paste it into Paprika on the mac. The mac and iPad sync up nicely.

[BenG]

I have Paprika on my iPad and PC. If you have the PC app there's a Save Recipe bookmarklet for Chrome. Navigate to a page with a recipe, click on Save Recipe in your Bookmarks toolbar and it automatically saves it to Paprika.
I rarely have to edit it, except to add notes and categories.