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Sunday, March 18, 2012

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About Me

MK: I’m an Easterner, transplanted to the Midwest. I relocated to the PNW from Minneapolis in 2007. I’m a full-time PhD candidate who’d rather cook than work on her dissertation any day.

When I first started to be interested in cooking, I got myself a big orange binder and divided it into sections. I saved recipes in the front (organized by type) and in the back, I put a bunch of lined paper. Every night when we made dinner, I’d write down the recipe title, and where it came from. Sometimes I’d write what wine we had; sometimes I’d record who had been there. I usually made some notes about whether we’d liked it, and if we made any changes.

After a while, it became cumbersome to find things in it. I’d think “hmmm, I *know* I made some really tasty thing with roasted shallots and butternut squash," but I wouldn’t be able to find the note about that dish. It drove me nuts. Especially as I started to do more and more from-scratch cooking (often without a recipe) and also as I now had many sheets of paper recording years of dinners. I thought – there just has to be a better way.

This website is my “orange binder.”

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