This ship would go a lot to a greater extent than fun if I could tell y'all I started a novel quilting project. That's non what I did though. Yesterday was a no sewing day...rare inward these parts. Instead I submitted to a torture handling at the hands of my hairdresser. It's sort of a two-day ordeal since I at 1 time accept to sit down nether my stinky permy pilus until tomorrow morning time when I tin launder it. Looks good, no?
Instead of sewing, I continued on alongside a daunting task, started the solar daytime before, of going through the stacks in addition to stacks in addition to stacks of recipes I've printed off. Honestly, if I tried a novel recipe morning, noon, in addition to nighttime from at 1 time until my dying day, I withal don't intend I could instruct through them all. The exclusively matter that exceeds my stacks of recipes is the stacks of embroidery patterns I accept purchased. Actually, that's non true...fake news, y'all powerfulness say...but it sounds good.
Since I don't accept anything to demo y'all sewing-wise, it seemed similar a practiced fourth dimension to tell y'all almost a miracle app my friend Susan told me about. The exclusively matter that would brand this app whatever ameliorate would go if it would give me a recipe for turning my fine lead pilus into lustrous, flowing locks. That's non going to happen, hence you'll accept to settle for what it can do, which is a lot. It's an app for managing recipes, both tried in addition to untried, in addition to I sat taking a bunch of covert shots every bit I used it yesterday hence that I could extol its virtues. The app is called Paprika (link to the website there) in addition to it's available for both iOS in addition to Android devices. There is too a version for your computer. One matter I dear almost it is the database exists on your ain device, in addition to hence y'all don't demand cyberspace access to gain access to your recipe...kind of of import if y'all move around inward an RV, every bit nosotros do.
So here's how it looks when y'all opened upward it on your computer:
If y'all expect at the top in addition to only to the left of centre inward the icon above, y'all tin run across that mine has 1,780 recipes inward it. Yes, I'm a hoarder when it comes to recipes.
Before I nation anything else almost it, I'm going to tell y'all my favorite thing: It volition download recipes from the cyberspace right into the database...no typing required, except for typing the hollo into the search box. Look below:
On the left, click on "browser," which brings upward a search box. There, y'all type inward the hollo of the recipe you're looking for. Hit "enter," in addition to you'll run across a page that looks only similar it does when y'all search The Google (blessed go its name):
The 1 I wanted is right at that spot at the top inward the icon above. When I click on the link, it brings upward the spider web version, only every bit if I were inward Google. You tin run across it inward the icon below. (Sounds good, huh?)
Next, I click "save recipe" inward the lower right-hand corner:
And voila! Most times, it fifty-fifty picks upward the film accompanying the recipe. This really happens to go a practiced 1 because it gives me an chance to demo y'all the 1 weakness of the app. Sometimes, it picks upward something weird on the page you're saving from in addition to puts the incorrect championship inward the "name" box. The recipe comes upward inward "edit" mode, in addition to hence it's elementary plenty to type inward the right name.
Below, there...that looks better. Your recipe volition come upward up every bit "Uncategorized" inward the listing of categories, in addition to there, you'll go able to set it inward whatever category y'all like. You tin fifty-fifty add together your ain categories. In my case, I've added a bunch of "Untested" categories.
Click on that recipe inward the list, in addition to it brings upward your recipe every bit it was downloaded from the cyberspace alongside the changes you've made to it.
If y'all desire to type inward a novel recipe...maybe 1 from a cookbook that can't go downloaded...it's elementary plenty to "add new," which brings upward the template where y'all tin type.
Here's what I dear most almost it. In the icon below, y'all tin run across the search box at the top in addition to only right of center. You tin search for recipes past times name:
But y'all tin too search past times ingredient. This is especially helpful if y'all accept an component left over. I plough over to dear it for when nosotros instruct some strange CSA veggie in addition to I don't know what to do alongside it. Enter my stacks in addition to stacks in addition to stacks of recipes. I've saved them all the years of our CSA participation. Sometimes nosotros instruct veggies inward our CSA that are unfamiliar or seldom purchased (if ever), in addition to I'm at a loss almost how to laid them. Over time, I've collected a fair publish of recipes for those kinds of things...think kale, chicory, Swiss chard, bok choy, in addition to oh yes, let's non forget my favorite, kohlrabi. So let's only run across what's inward my database for kohlrabi. I click on the box to nation I'm searching past times ingredient, in addition to and hence type inward kohlrabi. Boom...all my saved recipes for kohlrabi appear.
Cool, huh? It has another features for creating grocery lists, repast planning, in addition to menus, but I haven't really spent whatever fourth dimension exploring those yet.
So...I promise this has been helpful to you. If you're a recipe hoarder similar I am, you'll dear this app. Up until Susan told me almost Paprika, I was using Mastercook. It was fine, but I couldn't download recipes the agency I tin alongside this one. On the other hand, I was able to transfer my existing Mastercook database into the Paprika app alongside no problems whatsoever.
And that's all I accept for y'all today. I know...it's non every bit much fun every bit cats or quilts, but it's something that makes my life significantly easier...not to hollo making my desk a lot less messy.
Today I accept to instruct to the grocery store. It occurs to me that I've weaponized my pilus alongside my stinky perm, in addition to hence if anyone crosses me today, I'll only stand upward existent unopen to them in addition to they'll keel over dead from the fumes. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few days ago, I saw a meme on social media that stand upward for my grocery-shopping self perfectly:
There should go plenty of fourth dimension for sewing this afternoon. Get ready for some quilting alley cats.