Laurel, another recipe idea

If you are like the rest of us, recipes aren't the only thing
you are accumulating. Cookbooks is the other. We all probably
have more than we will ever need. One of the things I do when
I get a new cookbook to help me utilize it is once I have
been thru it enough to decide what I would try or use: I use
one of the smaller (think it is 5 x 7) lined yellow pads &
on 1 line at a time list the recipes I am interested in &
the page number after each one. I find it does two things for
me. Helps me find what I want, but also makes me go back into
my cookbooks occasionally & then I usually find other recipes
that I had put on the list. This does work well when you have
a little time to plan a menu or when you are deciding what
you would like to bring to a party.

You could incorporate your computer into it by making an index
using each cookbook name & listing the recipes you want under
the name. That would be less work, instead of entering each
recipe.

I, too, have mastercook (won it over the internet at the Global
Gourmet's monthly cooking contest) I have not used it yet, but
when I do, I am hoping I can figure out a way to use my scanner
to put my recipes into it.