Moleskine Monday: An Address Book for Recipes

This is something I’ve thought about doing for a while: keeping all your favorite recipes easily indexed in an address book:

If you’ve been cooking for awhile, you probably have an arsenal of go-to recipes, dishes you can whip up from memory, but sometimes — especially when it comes to baking — you need to reference specific ingredient measurements. You can crack open your cookbooks or pull up your bookmarks online, but bartender and blogger Jeffrey Morgenthaler uses a more portable tool for storing all his most-used recipes: a Moleskine address book.

via Smart Tip: Use an Address Book for Your Most-Referenced Recipes | The Kitchn.

5 thoughts on “Moleskine Monday: An Address Book for Recipes”

  1. What a great idea! Looks like I’m going to have to pick one up for my recipes.
    I have used a Moleskine address book since 1985 to keep track of the books I’ve read. There is a 10 year gap when I didn’t record anything because I misplaced the book but I found it in a move in 2001. The book still has the price sticker on it too. Do you want to take a guess on the price tag?

  2. I have seen that idea around, specifically for bartenders…HOWEVER…this isn’t as good idea as it used to be. the NEW moleskines will NOT hold up to that kind of use. (i had to write an instructables about how to repair the spines)
    It is really a shockingly sloppy situation..the pages are folded and sewn signatures then it is merely attached to the binding by ONE thin slice of endpaper. It no longer has anything reinforcing the joints and hinges to keep the text block from tearing away.
    compare it to the leuchtturm1917 and the Piccadilly they both have strips of binding tape reinforcing the joints.
    i only wish that either company made an tabbed address book.

  3. I saw that post elsewhere and have adopted it for my cocktail recipes. It is also what lead me to your website.

  4. any suggestions for good alternatives to the moleskine pocket address book specifically? i use mine for foreign language vocab, and need a new colour (moleskines only come in black and red?) for a new language…

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