Organizing your cookbooks....

Today I'm riding the Tuesday Train and I want to talk about cookbooks.

Are you on cookbook overload? Do you have them just stacked all together? My sister and I love cookbooks. We love spending time scouring through them looking for that special something to take to church dinners or family gatherings. But it is a daunting job.

 

 Since I love to bake and always offer to make dessert for anything, I have quite a few cookbooks that are just dessert only. My favorites include one that everything is made with Hershey's Cocoa. In another one, every dessert in it has Eagle Band milk. So I gathered my favorite dessert only books and put them in a basket right on my counter. Now when I need to decide on a new dessert to take somewhere, I just carry my basket to the kitchen table and look at my choices.

There are many different ways to sort your cookbooks. You can keep them together by theme. Here are some ideas to sort by: church cookbooks, southern cooking, crock pot meals, celebrity cookbooks, professional cookbooks (like Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines), desserts, one pot meals, casserole books, you get the idea. 

Or you might want to sort them by type of books. Hardbacks together, paperbacks together, spiral bound together.

Baskets are an ideal way to store your cookbooks. By incorporating the baskets into your kitchen decor you get that touch of country while being useful.

My sister recently picked up this old cupboard at an antique store and she uses one of the shelves in it for her cookbooks. I have an open wooden shelf over my refrigerator that is not in use for anything. I'm am starting to scour antique stores for old cookbooks to put on that shelf. Stop back by on Wednesday to read more about that idea.

There are so many options when organizing your cookbooks. Be creative. Use things you already have around the house and create your own decor. Incorporate a small bookshelf in your kitchen and place your cookbooks on a couple of shelves and store some of your vintage dishes on the other shelves. On the top, you can place a vintage lamp and one of your older cookbooks with a pair of vintage reading glasses laying on top.