DIY Cookbook.

Moleskine Recipe Journal

You know the thing I hate about blank recipe books? They’re usually divided up into sections like Appetizers, Soups & Salads, Entrees, etc. — but there are never the right number of pages in each section. Depending on your personal culinary repertoire,  you might end up with an overflowing Appetizers section, while the Fish section is a ghost town.

One solution is not to prescribe the size of each section at all, but to include tabs that can be stuck in on whichever page the section happens to start on. The trouble is, most recipe books like this are filled in over the course of years, not all at once — so the “last page” of a section is a constantly moving target.

So the ideal cookbook would be one to which you could add extra pages to each section as needed. Perhaps something like this. I’ve got a set on order; maybe that’s what I’ll use it for.