Recipe Index for myself and other cooking enthusiasts

[serpina]

I am now finally cleaning up my Memories section a little bit, rather than treating it as a dumping ground for things I want to look at again someday. I've now got a recipe section filled with recipes from various lj cooking communities, which I'll surely be adding to now that it can be a useful online tool for me. Of course, I welcome you to use

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[exterra]

So how exactly did you create that?

[serpina]

pretty simple -- i have just been saving recipes to my memories section by clicking the heart icon when something strikes my fancy. i save them with the keyword "recipes" so that they all fall into the same category. i went in today and edited the text of the subject of most of the posts, so they would specify a food category or an ingredient. then i clicked on the sorting function to make it alphabetize -- i think it says "sort by description". tada. i'm planning to go back and find other recipes i've posted to my own journal and add them in, so i can use it as my own personal online recipe file. it's too bad we don't have the functionality to have another (sub-)level of keyword association, because then i would use it like a database with ingredients and ingredient type, to make it searchable. but hey, it works this way just fine, especially since it is (and will probably remain) pretty small.

[exterra]

great idea! i always forget to put recipes into memories and spend too much time leafing through my or others' journals in search of a specific recipe.

[serpina]

cool, glad it's helpful to you!