I love printing recipes out online, but they always end up scattered all around my apartment. Any cookbooks you couldn't live without?

What kind of food do you like cooking, Dana? Or what kind of cookbook are you thinking about? A healthy choice one or a good could-make-healthy-recipes-if-one-wanted-to one? Cooking is a bit of a hobby for me (alas) and there are quite a few good cookbooks out there

I'm always printing out recipes too, and keep them organized in three-ring binders. It's easy to use page dividers to separate categories, like soups and salads. I slip the ones I use often into plastic sleeves that wipe clean. Cheap and very effective -- kind of like your own cookbook.

I hate spending money on cookbooks because it always seems like I only find a few recipes that I really like and the rest I never use, so it's a waste of money and space.

Hi,
before going through a Hurricane, I had some great cookbooks.....I loved my cooking light books, They had tons of lower fat recipes, I had a great mooswood? cookbook, and a vegetarian times, and I had binders of recipes I put together from the internet.
cheryl

I also use the 3-ring binder to organize my recipes. I have those clear laminated type sheet protectors that I use to keep everything neat and tidy. Because the truth is the best recipes that I get are ones that I find sporadically, from the web or right here from 3FC and that I get from other people's tried and true ones. I find cookbooks are a waste of money, because I'm lucky to get even a few really good recipes.

I use one of those 3 ring binders that has a clear plastic cover (intended I guess to put a cover page on the binder). I pull the recipe out of my binder and slip it into the clear cover. When I open the binder, it stands on it's own and I can see the recipe that is protected from splatters.

I print my recipes out after sizing them to fit onto 4 x 6 index cards and then keep them in a nice box with dividers.

The 3-ring binders would be easier but my brain never goes with the easy.

That's too funny.. I worked at an office supply school for five years, and I NEVER thought of that. Thanks for the idea!

Kasmin, definitely a healthy choice one. I'm not too creative when it comes to food and healthy substitutions.

I get lots of recipes online too, but I just save them to my hard drive as word document files. It's easy to organize them into categories in different folders. I keep the ones I want to try separate from my permanent recipe files, then when I want to try it, I print it out. If I don't care for it, I delete it.

I have quite a few cookbooks too. The ones I've had for a long time and find myself going back to often are: Moosewood, The Vegetarian Epicure, any of Jane Brody's cookbooks (healthy and tasty stuff), and the South Beach cookbooks.

I just bought master cook to organize my recipes and I check cookbooks out from the library.

As for cookbooks though....

Vegan with a Vengeance and Veganomicon
Cook's illustrated "Best Recipes" and "Best Light Recipes"
Vegetarian cooking for Everyone

I have others because I love cookbooks but those would be my top 4.

I really like.....Rachael Ray

If you're looking for easy, healthy, and tasty, I would definitely suggest Cooking Light's 5 Ingredients 15 Minutes cookbook. This is one that I have used quite often (especially after a busy day at work).

Weight watchers has great cookbooks. Even if you arent doing WW (which I am not). they are low cal low fat recipes.... and very tasty.....

I print most of my stuff out as well. I do like "The Joy of Cooking", though

ummm, I have also heard that the weightwatcher's one is good--easy and yummy. One cookbook for the basics that I have used a lot is the Fannie Farmer one (I can't remember the whole name, anyways she's the author). That one is really good if you want to cook something totally by scratch. It'll tell you everything--from how to make a sauce to how to choose a good cut of meat. It rocks (unfortunately however, its focus is not necessarily heathy choices, though some of its recipes are that).