Organizing a Recipe Book

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkas on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make your own recipe book. Now, one of the first things you're going to want to do is you're going to want to get your recipes organized. I've got a couple of different examples here of where you can get your recipes, first and foremost. You know, obviously you can go the old off of the box method, you know, you can sit there and maybe you've tried this before and thought wow, that's a really great recipe, I've got to keep that. Or maybe you've made it and made some changes to it, whatever. You know, you can totally use this recipe if you want, but you're going to want to either write this or you know, copy this or something. You want, right now we're in the compiling stage, so say okay, I want this recipe so you find a means of getting it the way you want be it you can always make a copy of it or you handwrite it or whatever. Same thing like this. You know I printed this off the Internet. This is a great recipe for a braided egg bread, you know, and there's the whole thing and obviously this is, you know, a little unwieldy yet like five or six pages are printed out. So I'm going to put this in a format that I can use. Moving along to here, you know, here's one of my old text books from school. You know, this is full of all sorts of recipes and it's got, you know, all sorts of, you know, really good ones and some better than others, mind you. And then, you know, along with that I've got, these are you know, old recipes I've gathered over the years of, you know, being a chef, you know. We've got recipes from friends of mine here. Here's a handwritten one from a friend of mine, you know, moving here to the front of the book, I think I've got some more like that. Here's, what do we have here, here's some more you know, handwritten ones where I've taken notes, I've changed some of the measurements on that one, as you can tell. So, as you compile them all, what I do is I put them all in a little notebook. You know, just a little simple notebook like this, and you can see that I go through and these are all different recipes. Now mind you, these are all handwritten, and I don't know how well you can read my handwriting. As you can see, my handwriting is, well, it's hard to read. So if I was making this for myself, this might work, but obviously if I'm not, this isn't going to be the best way to do this. So which is why I want to look at other ways of arranging your recipes. So let's go ahead and move on and look at those."