Organize Your Recipes.....

and your life while your at it.. Hey, killing two birds with one stone is always better right? Don't worry I've never killed a real bird so I wouldn't know.

I wanted to share a very cool tip for you guys on organizing your recipes. Over the last few weeks I have been scouring the internet and cook books for the most appealing recipes to mankind. Considering that I haven't had "bad food" so to speak for a while now everything looks amazing. And since I really cant make any of it at the moment I wanted to organize all of the recipes I do want to make and share with you guys. So if you have a gmail account (Google email) its a piece of cake! mmm cake.....

Sorry daydreaming of the yummy red velvet cake I'll be making in oh, I don't know, 11 days... ha ha ha ha

So here are the steps:

1) Create a gmail account www.gmail.com

2) At the top of your screen there will a tab called "Documents", click on that

3) Click on "Create New" and choose Document

4) At the top of the new document page you will see a box that says "Untitled Document". Click inside of that box. Another box will appear and that is where you enter your recipe name and click "done".

5) It will then go back to the blank document. You can then start adding your recipe information. What I have been doing is copy and pasting whatever I find online from that particular page, pasting it to my new document and then making any necessary adjustments. Such as a picture size, color, font, so forth.  *When you copy info from another site then go back to the document to paste, you have to use "ctrl v" to paste the info on the Google document, you wont be able to use your mouse to right click. If you forget that step a notification will appear telling you what to do.

6) Once you have all your information on your document check to make sure that it is saved. Google will automatically save the info as you go. Also check out all the preferences and options you have on the document  page. You can set it up however you like. Example: you can make the document private for only you to see or you can share it with family and friends.

Now that it is saved close the tab and go back to the Google Documents home page. From there you can organize your recipes and add tags to make them easier to find later on. Another nice feature is that you can "star" your most favorite recipes and they all go into the same folder for quickly finding them.

Also if you have a droid phone or iphone there is a Google Docs app that you can download. You can then read all your saved documents on the go or add new documents.

I have found Google Documents to be very helpful lately but you have to play around on it to get the hang of it and once you do its very easy to use.

Here is a tour to show you how to use the site if you need help:
Google Docs Tour

Good Luck! and as always here's to finding your NorthStar..