July 3rd, 2011

recipes. notes. notebooks. scraps.

i spent about an hour yesterday looking for a recipe for blueberry pie filling that i had experimented with, baked into a pie, subsequently adored and wanted to bake again. i must have asked every one of my co-workers (twice) if they saw a “small, square piece of paper with BLUEBERRY scribbled across the top of it” lying anywhere around the bakery.

after an hour, i found it. clipped to the wall behind the mixer. right where i put it in the first place.

and while searching for a scrap of paper with a recipe on it was a big waste of time, i still can’t imagine working out recipes on an electronic device. i love paper. and my cooking notebooks. i love my recipe notes & scribbles because they’re like a map - showing me where a simple idea started and then where it ended up. i save all my scraps, all my notebooks - even the ones with chocolate spilled all over, ripped sticky edges and flour-caked covers.

i took great comfort in this piece from the wall street journal - i’m glad i’m not the only one attached to my notebooks…

LOOK!  a box of my notes. and notebooks!

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  1. ronniefein said: I’m with you. When you do it by hand you can actually remember the shape of the paper (like maybe you tore off the back of an envelope when you got an inspiration and there was no other paper around). Also can remember the color pen used.
  2. sprinklefingers posted this
dinner time. lunch time. snack time.
i love food all the time. thankfully, i have a job that involves food.
which is fun. and amazing.

i’m a baker, and i own a bakery. i love to eat, and i love to cook - most importantly i love to share food with others.

and that’s what sprinklefingers is for - to share my food thoughts and dreams and wishes with you.

right now i’m wishing dinner was ready.

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