{"id":1986,"date":"2010-08-14T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2013-08-02T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T21:11:57","slug":"tengrrl-cooks-a-collection-space-for-family-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/tengrrl-cooks-a-collection-space-for-family-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tengrrl Cooks: A Collection Space for Family Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hanging<\/a>Earlier this week, I wrote about my ongoing challenge to organize<\/a> the bits of paper and pixels in my life. The one category that I was most lost on was how to handle the many recipes and cooking ideas spread around my desk. <\/p>\n

I have recipes in a plastic recipe box, in a 3-ring binder, and in a folder on my computer. I have some online recipes hidden in Delicious and others in my Food Network recipe box. I have a few in a wiki I tried to create as an online cookbook. And I have printouts stuck in various piles on my desk and in the kitchen. In short, I’m overrun with recipes, and I never know where the one I need is. <\/p>\n

After a lot of thinking and advice from my friend Lisa Fink, who has her own online recipe collection<\/a>, I decided to set up a blog specifically for recipes. After all, they really do not belong here with the teaching ideas. <\/p>\n

I did a little research and found a WordPress plugin specifically for recipes, hRecipe<\/a>. It adds in the headers and sections to keep the recipes consistent, and uses the hRecipe 0.22 microformat<\/a> that optimizes the recipes for searching and classification. The microformat is used on the Food Network website<\/a> as well as a number of other sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So if you’re interested in cooking, take a look at Tengrrl Cooks<\/a>. There are only four recipes there so far, but they’re great ones:<\/p>\n