Recipe Organization 101

If you're anything like me, when I get a new cookbook/magazine, I read it like a novel, from cover to cover and that's where all the post-its and page turning come in--I mark every recipe I want to come back to try.  But then what--a whole stack of books/magazines with stuff sticking out of them and by the time I get back to them, I have recieved 3 or 4 new magazines in the mail with the same problem.  (Nice run-on sentence there, English teacher I am not)

Anyway,  so now what I do is to get a sheet of paper and pen and  I write the name of the book or magazine on the top and write the page number and the name of the recipes underneath!  I then have a glossary of sorts to look through when I need a new recipe instead of having to go through every darn book/magazine trying to find something!  I took off all my post-it notes, haven't bent a page in ages and have a great resource for finding the recipes that I want to make. Now I can get to and find all those yummy recipes that I have been saving and just check them off the list once I try them.  And best of all, my bookshelves and countertops look really tidy, too!  Then you can display your cookbooks and use them as decoration, like this...