Recipe Book

Last night I was in charge of teaching an Enrichment night about family dinners. I think it went really well. More than anything it was just a good reminder about why to do it. It was a good motivator for me because I have not been feeling so inclined to make real dinners lately. I mean, when it is just the three of us it is so easy to feed Olive something for dinner and then grab ourselves some take out, usually after she goes to bed.
I really believe in being healthy and think it is a life style. There are so many ideas and tricks out there about how to be healthy but I thought it was encouraging that just by eating family dinners, you can be on that healthy path.
The only problem was, last night I wanted to share some recipes that are favorites at our house. That in itself is not a problem but my recipes have gotten a little out of control over the past few years. Although I have lots of cook books, most of my recipes don't come from them. If I ever find a recipe online or from a friend I write it on a 3x5 card. Well those cards and just been floating in drawers and binders and all sorts of places.
So in honor of getting organized to have family dinners I put this together.

I just used my handy laminating machine and got them all organized in a binder. I was kinda stumped for awhile about how to go about organizing them because I didn't want to re do all those recipes whether on the computer or rewriting them in another book. So this is my solution and I think it is going to work out nicely.

It feels so refreshing to get things organized. Now, it's dinner time. Let's see what I can come up with!