Sunday, December 20, 2009

Recipes---Recycle


I wanted to find a recipe for a pasta dish I fixed many years ago which meant I needed to go to my recipe cards. . .I haven't delved through those cards for years preferring the internet and a few favored cook books. Several drawers were organized, but still just tooooo many recipes.
They are housed in a file box which I inherited from my grandfather Roy Long---he stored tools in it.
If the cards had a product that was no longer made, was anything made with Kool-aid or Kellogg's cereal. . .
Anything with liquor. . .Country Time and liquor?
Anything with shredded wheat and bananas. . .
Recipes that are way too fancy and complicated. ..
Baby juice and Knox Gelatin??? ALL gone.
I remember being on trip, making some of these cards in the car---some weren't really cards but just cardboard I cut.
So, these have all been sent to the recycle bin. I did NOT include any favorites, hand-written ones from close family and friends. And, yes, I did finally find that pasta recipe.

2 comments:

hear.t. and hue said...

ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa ... TOO FUNNY. i'm with you. i have my FAVE cookbooks, my indexed file folder, & the INTERNET [i use 75% of the time].

sooo GROSS that there was a kellogs recipe for anything with salmon in it. and kool-aid in a pumpkin cake. BARF. :P

Mizzou81 said...

Jaci - I did not see any Applebee's menus in your mass of recipes!! Jim

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