I have a million bits of paper (approx) with various recipes scrawled on them. Since One Note 2007 beta came out I've been trying to consolidate them into one place as I cook them – since I don't have a scanner this means transcribing, something I can't do for long without dying of boredom.
Now that I have a umpc I can cook with the recipes to hand, rather than having to sprint between the stove and the monitor, or resorting to a printout. Tonight I cooked a chorizo stew thing, scribbling the steps into one note as I went.
It was pretty fun: the kitchen of tomorrow…TODAY! etc etc. Nice to be able to listen to streaming radio at the same time. The only drawback vs real recipe books is that I like them to get quite messy, as a badge of honour type thing. I'm less enthusiastic about covering the Q1 with grease and stray chicken carcass – I had it safely propped on the microwave during the messy bits. My handwriting did get pretty rough though – maybe this rather than sauce stains will be my new 'real chef' status symbol?
yup – not just that and we just posted about the new version of pepper pad which seemed to be focused on kitchens -you know what we mean “Please pass me the Pepper pad please”
Comment by Joe — June 6, 2006 @ 9:57 pm