e-Recipes

So a while ago I was thinking I really need to better organise my recipes. I have lots of recipe books, but they take up a lot of space and I don't use every recipe in each and every one of them.... and then I also have a blank book for recipes I stumble across in different places, which is now also stuffed full of loose pages of handwritten recipes jotted down by various people and torn-out pages from magazines .... and then I also have a file on my computer for recipes I've copied off the web... and while I mostly know where every recipe I want is, it's all a bit messy. But I don't really feel like writing out/sticking the recipes I routinely use in one book, and anyway even if I did that book would get full and then I'd be back to the overflowing loose pages.

Then I had a brainwave - HTML! What if I organised my recipes that way, with labels and a nice-looking, consistent format? (Yes, this is important to me. Yes, it means things take longer than they should. No, I can't help it.) But then the coding is kind of a pain, and I don't have DreamWeaver or anything like that to do the pesky work for me.

Then I had another brainwave. A blog! Maybe I could just put my favourite recipes on a blog! Ooh, ooh, then I could share them too! And save the files to my computer to create an offline version! Perfect!

I'm not sure how the saving files thing will go, but you can find the first recipe here. (Chosen because this is what I had for lunch today, so I could get a photo to go with it.) I'm also not sure what the legalities are of putting recipes from books onto the blog... but if it's a private blog (i.e., not able to be found by a search engine), set up essentially for my own use and not generating any money, it should be OK... shouldn't it?

Anyway, while this is mainly for me, I hope it might be useful to you as well. Bon apetit!