Recipes

I enjoy cooking, and having my recipes in sight while I’m preparing them is important for a couple of reasons. First, I want to see them from all angles when I’m busily moving around the kitchen sink area. My kitchen is small, and having the font a little larger and in bold print makes it easier to read. Secondly, I like to keep food and liquids from getting on the cards. My cards are all laminated on the backs. I don’t laminate the fronts in order to be able to jot something on them if I want to. There is a small piece of velcro attached just below one of my cabinets. When I’m using a recipe card, I attach a piece of rolled up tape to the back of the card. I then push the card against the velcro on my cabinet. If I don’t need to have a recipe card out, the velcro on my cabinet has a small, cute item hanging on it (with a matching velcro piece also on the back of it). The item can be a large unique button, a tiny picture frame, or anything I like to have on display at the time. Being able to interchange things that hang there, gives me the opportunity to make it look different all the time. Folks never know what is going to be hanging there in my personal little display area. If a card becomes sticky from using tape, I use a little alcohol or soap to wipe the stickiness off. I then tuck it back in the recipe card box, clean as a whistle, until the next time it needs to be used.

Another way to have a recipe card handy while in the kitchen, is to glue a clothespin to the inside of a cabinet door. Decorate the clothes pin with paint and little flowers to keep it from being unsightly when the door is open. Don’t leave the clothes pin unused. Hang a favorite verse or family picture there. Every time you open the door, you will be uplifted by the verse, or reminded of how special your family is to you.