Upside-Down Pear

So, I have a corkboard in my pantry, and in addition to things like “petsitter’s business card” and “calendar”, it had a zillion and a half recipes tacked up to it. Some of them I’d clipped, some of them were handwritten versions of things I have in my recipe database, some were inherited from my mother. They’re all things I want to make fairly often and/or don’t want to lose, ever.

I had so many that I had run out of pushpins and board space, and the recipes were stacked 3 deep, which meant I could never find anything. Today, as I tried to find a place to tack up the sourdough pancake recipe, I remembered that I’d bought some expanding notebook jobbies for another project and had one left over.

The notebook is sort of a cross between a Trapper Keeper and a scrapbook, and so I glued the recipes onto backing (if they were on small paper) or slipped them into plastic casings (if they were on large paper), stuck ‘em in the notebook, and wrote “Recipes” on the front in silver Sharpie.

Now my board is empty and my recipes are safe. It’s not clear to me why this didn’t occur to me before. Perhaps I am about as sharp as a marble. Still, if you have a corkboard full of recipes that you need to hand, or just want your most common recipes always to hand, it’s worth a try…