Where do your recipes come from?

Where do you find recipes? Online, magazines? Do you have a collection of family recipes? Maybe some favorites from friends that have been passed along. And how do you store them?

These days when I’m on the hunt for a new recipe I’m searching the internet or digging through various recipe books that I have. Occasionally a friend will post something that sparks interest on Facebook and we will give it a try. Most recently, Mom printed a bunch of options off the internet and we ranked them and have tried several.

It’s so easy to keep eating what we always eat. It is what we know, what we like, ingredients we have on hand. But we all need a little variety. Leave a comment on where you search for new recipes or maybe end a link of something new you have tried.

How do you store your recipes?

Growing up I remember a corner drawer in the kitchen that was Mom’s recipes. There was a notebook with various cut outs from magazines, handwritten scribbles, two small spiral notebooks with recipes that my aunt wrote for Mom, and more. As I transitioned into my own place and began cooking, I followed in the footsteps of my sister with a binder and page protectors. We added some of our family favorites and then others that we were picking up on our own.

Now, I have a small bookshelf close to the kitchen with my many recipe books. A collection so the Southern Living Yearly Cookbooks since we got married, Forest Hills Baptist Church Cookbooks (that some refer to as the Old Testament, New Testament, and The Message), and others. But my favorites ones to pull out are those Binders. Those are the tried and true favorites.