When you read my cookbooks, you are literally reading about my favorite things to eat.īut… when a pal (Hi, Petra!) asked me how I organize my recipes, it made me curious about how other people manage their recipes, and I turned to my followers on Facebook to investigate. There are more than 500 recipes in those books, and they’re basically a collection of all the things I’ve wanted to cook over the years since I started eating paleo. If I’m being completely honest-and when am I ever not completely honest with you?!-I cook almost exclusively from my Well Fed cookbooks these days. I vividly remembering a college semester when I sat at our bulbous, humming electric typewriter to make my own copies of Mom’s beautifully handwritten recipe cards.

It’s stuffed with photocopies and clippings from magazines, along with a food-spattered stack of typed index cards with some of my favorite non-paleo recipes from my mom’s recipe box. I also have a manilla envelope that’s more sentimental than practical. ( Hello, pickled onions!) A few go-to recipes that haven’t been committed to memory yet are sloppily handwritten on post-it notes stuck inside my cabinet doors so they’re rightthere when I need them.

When I come across an online recipe I want to try, I usually paste it into Evernote and one of two things happens: It goes into my “I’ll make it some day” mental category, or I start cooking it so often, I memorize the recipe. I have a confession to make… I’m not super organized with my recipes.

Copy me that recipe app