Maybe you remember that a few months ago, when I was composing my life list, I cheerily added this doozy as #31:
31. Cook my way through Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
, even the stuff I know like the back of my hand.
I don’t know what I was thinking.
No, wait, I do. I was thinking: “I love Mark Bittman and I love this cookbook. If there is a vegetarian equivalent to pulling a Julie and Julia, it’s tackling this book. No doubt about it!”
However, there are 536 recipes in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and there are more than 2,000 recipes in How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
So I guess it’s a good thing that I gave myself the time limit of the entire rest of my life rather than one calendar year?
Oof.
Does anyone have any good suggestions about how to keep track of the recipes over the years? I’m leaning towards a spreadsheet that I save and update somewhere online, since I will probably own three or four more computers before I come to the end of this project. I’m open to suggestions!
I don’t have very many cookbooks yet, but the ones that I do have are littered with sticky notes denoting the recipes I like. I cut a normal yellow sticky pad down to size diagonally and use them, but there are flags out there that would probably look nicer. Regardless, I’ve been meaning to get a new cookbook, and never knew that Bitty had a vegetarian cookbook until now!
oof. i gotta be honest. i would probably just use a pencil and put a checkmark by each one as i do them. call me old-school. or those little dot stickers like we got to put by our names in elementary school.
I vote for the checkmark. I don’t mind marking up my cookbooks though. Also, blog it! It could be simple: title, picture, rating. Could help keep you organized and let others know what’s worth tackling!
all of the recipes I’ve made in all of my cookbooks (including yours!) are all marked with the month/year I made it first and any notes about the recipe (did I like it? did I change any ingredients? etc…
I then also mark the recipe off in the index in back, every where it’s listed…that might be overkill, but I like seeing the checked off recipes grow in each page. good luck!
I just write in the cookbook with a pen/pencil next to the recipe to mark that I made it and write any notes I may have on that recipe in the extra space in the margin or under the recipe.
I do like amanda’s sticker idea though!
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I followed a link to you, but the article I came looking for was not found.
Can you direct me to your post on making the best veggie burgers?
Thank you.
maija, the recipe you’re looking for is here:
http://www.joannavaught.com/2010/11/01/vegan-mofo-and-diy-burgers/