Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

I used to be able to find my recipes. Salmon, fennel… where’s the scrumptious idea I want to cook tonight?

It might be in the yellow file folder, the basket NEXT to the file folder that holds magazine and newspaper clippings, or the shelf of cookbooks in my morning room. Three places, all within easy reach of a comfy chair.

Now, they could be in all of the above, and/or:

• my secret Pinterest board,
• or maybe in my “likes” on Pinterest,
• a file on my computer labeled “recipes”,
• a printout of a friend’s Facebook post which is piled up next to my PC
• or maybe I saved the link in my bookmarks,
• or it’s on a Post-it I scribbled during a phone conversation with my culinary-obsessed cousin-in-law.

There’s gotta be a better way.

I COULD  take all the free (ha!) time I have to learn how to use all the options apps and software programs offer you to get organized. Dropbox and Evernote and Remember the Milk. As if.

But you, I know, don’t have time for that…. maybe because you’re spending all your time trying to find that brilliant idea you ran across for a killer subject line, a blog post that sparkles, some Facebook info you wanted to remember. So here’s my best suggestion:

Use your desktop. Create files and throw stuff in them.

Okay, that’s not much better than my yellow file and armchair… but at least it doesn’t need dusting! And

there is NO learning curve.

Oh, salmon with fennel? This is delicious. Click the picture to get the recipe from RealSimple. And save it… you’ll want to make it again and again.