Recipes: How Do You Organize?

The favorite recipe post got me thinking. How do you organize your recipes? I feel like the days of the cute recipe has gone out the window. I find recipes on the web, I tear them out of magazines, the get themfrom friends via email. I have pages of recipes stuck in a drawer and I can't decide the best way to organize them.

I'd also like to find a way to have my recipes on the fly. Is there a place to host them? Or a site that will take my format and make them all the same?

Just curious...I am a mess when it comes to this.

i stick em all in a recipe box type thing.. in my pantry.  :)

Well considering I don't really cook...I know www.allrecipes.com seems to be a good site:

"save your favorite recipes, post recipe ratings and reviews, submit recipes and photos, receive newsletters, and more!"

http://allrecipes.com/Membership/Signup.aspx

Also, I believe you can do the same thing on www.Epicurious.com: http://www.epicurious.com/

I swear someone just posted a website that you can upload notes too and organize them. Like an online scrapbook sort of. Does anyone else remember that?

Usually, I print out my favorite recipes and then organize them by category, and then alphabetically, in a binder.  I also save my favs on www.allrecipes.com and www.epicurious.com.  Now that I've found Blurb, I'd really like to create a cookbook compilation of all these recipes - maybe with pics of the recipes I've made :)

I print them all out and store them in a 3 ring binder. I don't have enough yet to organize by category : ( I should work on that

I don't cook a ton, but I love allrecipes.com - you can save your favorite recipes in a "Recipe Book" online, and read over other people's reviews for recommendations on how to tweak things. You also can print out the recipes very easily on 3x5 or 4x6 cards if you want to keep a hard copy. I also really like the search option - you can search by description, ingredients, etc - so it makes it really easy to put together a dinner last minute!

I have all of mine in sheet protectors in a 3-ring binder.  If I cut something out of a magazine or if it's not a full page size then I use a glue stick and stick it to a normal sheet of paper.  The sheet protectors are really nice b/c then I can take out the recipe and not have to worry about it getting wet or covered in batter or something.

www.cooks.com is one of my favorite recipe sites!

i need a better way too....i have a Longaberger recipe box/basket thingee that was super expensive...and i end up just stuffing everything in there...it sucks because there are things of all sizes in there...printed out from computer, cards, mag tearouts, etc....i guess a 3ring binder would be the best way....with tabs for categories...like in page protectors....

It's so funny you should bring this up!  I went on a big recipe-organizing kick about two years ago - I took all of the printouts from www.epicurious.com (my favorite!), magazine tear-outs, old handwritten recipes, etc. and typed them all up.  I then printed each category (e.g. dessert, salad, entree, etc.) on a different color of paper, and have them bound together with binder rings.  But my brother recently asked me to put them online somewhere so he didn't have to keep track of the paper copies, so just this weekend I tried posting a few on a site called www.scribd.com.  It's like Flickr, but for documents instead of photos.  It seems pretty good - I'll let you know how it goes!