If nothing pops up, I hit my Pinterest boards to see what has caught my eye lately.ĭinner is always an adventure in my house! With Paprika and Pinterest I’m never short on inspiration or organization.Paprika Recipe Manager is a cookbook and recipe software that is easy to use. When I plan my menus, I make a list of my fresh produce or other ingredients that I need to use up and look for recipes containing those ingredients in Paprika first. If they’re keepers, I put them into Paprika. Instead of entering all of the recipes that I’m interested into Paprika, I now pin them first. Not all of the recipes are healthy, but a good number of them are, so feel free to follow me as well. My personal board has over 2,000 pins for food alone. Check out InDependent’s boards for inspiration or do a search for a term that fits your lifestyle like vegan, Paleo, clean eating, or gluten free. It’s full of inspiration, particularly for food. PinterestĪre you on Pinterest yet? If not, you should be. Leslie, however, was able to input all of her recipes in a weekend. I’m starting with my tried and true recipes first. Since my collection was so big, it’s taking me awhile to get everything entered. It’s usually my job to plan holiday meals for my family, so I plan everything on Paprika, and then email recipes to my parents directly from the app. I use Paprika to make my weekly meal plans, but it also comes in handy for special occasions. Paprika also includes a meal planner, shopping list, a scaling calculator, and in-recipe timers to make the planning, shopping, and cooking process easy. So, if I wanted to find my daughter’s birthday cake recipe, I could either search for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake or simply click on my Desserts – Cake category. When you’re searching for a recipe you can search by name, source, or ingredient, or you can drill down on a category. Leslie likes to categorize her recipes by season. I like to categorize mine by course (main dishes, salads, etc.) and by type of cuisine (Italian, Indian, etc.). You can tag each recipe with as many categories as you want and you get to pick the categories you use. Either way, you have the capability of attaching your own photos, editing, and adding notes to any recipe. You can also manually enter recipes that can’t be found online. I’ve even had old clippings from my husband’s grandmother pop up in a Google search. If you have clippings from magazines, many show up online. When you find recipes online, you can import them into Paprika without retyping your entire recipe. Paprika is a recipe manager for iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows, Kindle Fire, Nook Color and Android. Now, when I PCS with my stuff in boxes and I’m without internet for an indefinite amount of time, I can still have my recipes with me on my iPad. Add Pinterest, and I have a dream duo that supports and organizes my recipe collecting habit that is also easy-to-use and portable. And if I just wanted to find recipes using specific ingredients or put together a themed dinner? Forget it.Īfter waiting and wishing for the perfect recipe app to come along, I finally found Paprika several years ago. Still, it took an eternity to sort through to find my favorite soup recipe or the cake that I make for my daughter’s birthday every year. Everything was nicely organized by new and tried and true, and then by category from there. They were taking up a whole long drawer in my china cabinet. After years of adding to my collection, the sheer mass of recipes just grew too big. I love collecting and trying new recipes.
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