Dinner and a song

I some how made it through last week with next to nothing in my kitchen. I had bread, eggs, and dwindling cheese, though no milk. I kept avoiding the store. I was busy most nights last week and just left groceries as the last priority. I made it, and actually packed lunch one day, which is a feat just shy of miraculous. (Okay, overstated a bit.) I am now fully shopped, even mostly ready for my hosting of book club on Thursday. (Minus the fact that my living room is covered in fuzz from a project for weaving class.)

Tonight I've got some Sweet Potato Soup with Miso and Ginger simmering on the stove. I am all ready to break out my new immersion blender. I've seen some headlines recently about how most people are now getting their recipes from the internet instead of cookbooks. I didn't bother reading the articles because that seemed pretty obvious to me. Both my mother and I get most of the recipes we use from the internet. What I want to add is how one goes about organizing said recipes. For a while I would email recipes I found interesting to a friend or my mother and copy myself and then move the email to a folder for recipes. This was not exceptionally efficient.

More recently my friend Esther suggested that I use Evernote for my recipes. Brilliant idea. Evernote is multi-platform, so you can use it on your desktop, the internet, and on your mobile devices. You can tag the things you save and save them in different folders. Plus most internet browsers have add-ons for Evernote, so you can quickly save content from websites. I just started keeping a second folder, "Current Recipes" for the recipes I'm interested in making soon. It's great because I can quickly call up recipes on my phone while I'm at the grocery store. I love it. And I keep trying to indoctrinate others into its greatness. (I use it for other things as well. I am an inveterate list maker and Evernote hits all the sweet spots.)

Apropos of nothing, here is a song, "Melody" by Kate Earl, that I have been rocking out to tonight. My friend Nickleen put it on a mix a couple of years ago and I love both the song and mix. Thanks again, lady! Enjoy! 

Comments

[Nickleen]

Awesome! I have some more great music on its way to you soon!