Creating a Recipe Notebook
We’ve entered the cozy season, a return to slow cooking and pots of delicious things simmering the day away on the stove. The holidays are coming and you may be digging out your Granny’s pecan pie recipe or the recipe for your sister’s famous Sunday chili. If you’ve never considered using our Golden Coil notebooks to create a dedicated recipe notebook, you’re missing out! Today we’re sharing a few approaches to creating your own recipe notebook.
The Go To Notebook
The Go To recipe notebook is for all of your back pocket, trustworthy, best-of-the-best recipes. These are the recipes you turn to every week, the ones friends request from you. This notebook lives in your kitchen and is a catch all for your favorite recipes. No need to be too precious about it (the more notes and splatters inside the better)! Jot recipes down, print and tape favorites in, and include your cooking notes along the way. Design your notebook to include a variety of your favorite style of pages. We love to use a mix of our recipe card pages (Recipe 1 and 2 under the +Pages) and our grid, blank, and lined pages. This provides maximum variety so you can handwrite recipes or paste in others you’ve pulled from your favorite sources. Use tabs to designate sections such as Quick Breakfasts, Brunches to Linger Over, Weeknight Dinners, Potluck Favorites, and Celebration Desserts. Consider adding our Kitchen Conversions page for an easy measurement reference. Our notebooks lay flat when open, making them perfect for recipes in the kitchen. Imagine inheriting a notebook such as this from your great-grandmother! What a treasure this collection will make for your future loved ones.
The Heirloom Notebook
The Heirloom recipe notebook is the perfect gift for the passionate cook or baker in your life. Remember the plastic spiral bound recipe collections that dominated every PTO and church in the 1980s and 90s? Think of this as an elevated, more personal version of that. Consider collecting your family’s favorite recipes over the years and putting them all in one place. You can print recipes and mount on blank pages with small adhesive stickers, or copy the recipes by writing them in on our Recipe 1 and 2 +Pages. This would be a wonderful way to honor those who have passed and keep their memories and words alive for future generations. Add in a family photo of the recipe contributor on the recipe page and consider adding in special notes and stories that relate to the recipe.
The Family Notebook
The Family recipe notebook is for families who love to craft and draw. Choose a notebook for your family to collect their favorite recipes in one place. This is a group notebook with room for everyone to contribute and add their own special touches. Encourage kids to add drawings, tasting notes, and stories with the recipes. Add a variety of pages (blank, grid, dot, Recipe 1 and 2) to your notebook so everyone can choose their favorite style. Add in fun tabs and sections to keep recipes organized such as Favorite Lunches, Birthday Party Treats, Holiday Celebrations, Weekend Breakfasts, Summer Picnics. Don’t forget to include a section for recipe fails and room to record funny kitchen stories.
The Shared Notebook
If you’re feeling stuck thinking about what to give your dear friend or sister for the holidays this year, consider creating a shared notebook. This notebook is for friends who love to cook and may live far apart. Design your notebook to include a variety of pages and include each author’s name on the front page. With this notebook, friends can add their recipe and special touches before sending the notebook back to the original sender or on to the next person. You can make up your own rules! Perhaps each person gets to keep the notebook for a few weeks or a month. They can add in their recipes and then pass it on. Each person can enjoy cooking from it and adding to it while the notebook is in their possession. Continue in this way until the notebook is filled up. This is such a special way to honor friendship and connect with each other even when far apart!
We want to hear from you! Which recipe would you include in your recipe notebook?