dinner, appetizers), you can create a “board” or folder called “recipes to try”, and so on. Whenever or wherever you see your inspiration online, you can “pin” or save your recipes to boards labelled as different types of meals (ie. It allows you to create different “boards” or categories to organize your recipes that you find all over the place – from your favourite food blog, an online google search or even your Facebook feed. While intimidating at first, Pinterest is incredibly user-friendly once you get the hang of it. It can be your own personal online “file folder” as well as a visually focussed search engine.

If you don’t already know about it, Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that helps you search for and save creative ideas, or in this case, recipes, online. One of the smartest things I have ever done as a homecook was open up a Pinterest account to handle my recipe organization. Pinterest for Recipe Organization and Inspiration One big difference between cooking for a family vs cooking for a hobby is that when you are in charge of feeding your crew, you have to cook REGARDLESS if you feel like it or not. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? But when you have zero motivation and even less inspiration, it’s like climbing the Eiffel Tower with high heels on.

Or, you can bite the bullet and commit to something else quick and easy that you can make at home.

You can pull out some already-made wonder out of the freezer (I wish!).

You can go out to eat or pick up take out (obv!).

So what do you do? Well, there are a couple great ways to deal with it: It’s the dreaded question -what am I going to make for dinner tonight? Sure, there is no shortage of food inspiration online, in your social media feeds or on tv, but when you need the inspiration the most, it’s never at your fingertips!Īnd do we ever need inspiration sometimes……One big difference between cooking for a family vs cooking for a hobby is that when you are in charge of feeding your crew, you have to cook REGARDLESS if you feel like it or not.

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