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Originally Posted by: TB1

Hi Everyone,

I'm Timmy. And I live in Minnesota. For the longest time I've been using the Paprika App to digitally store my recipes and time and time again I would find myself just letting my cookbooks sit on the shelf because I couldn't easily search them for ingredients I have on hand. When I did use my cookbooks I would identify a recipe I wanted to cook and then go buy the ingredients. I'm super thrilled to find this service because now I can just search both my Papriks and bookshelf for recipes that call for ingredients I have on hand and then I can cook a nice dinner :)

Welcome,  I have been a member since 2018.  I really find it helps me to make use of my cookbooks and then make notes about a recipe so when it pops up on a search again I already have the notes if I tried the recipe before.  

Tina

Hello all.  Newbie here... wish I would have known of this site years ago!! Like someone else mentioned - I use paprika for a lot of my recipes.. and sometimes my books fall to the wayside.. I finished inputting my books and thought wow... 80+ books... that's a lot.. then I saw posts of 800+ books lol... 

This is amazing and I look forward to using my books more now that I will easily be able to search through them!

About Me - love to cook, read, sew, garden, can food, create... love my pup and kitty....

Originally Posted by: Archintrain

Hello all.  Newbie here... wish I would have known of this site years ago!!

HI Archintrain, welcome! You will find that EYB really opens up your cookbooks. I use it every day. 80 books is a fine collection to cook from. I look forward to seeing your comments on recipes and your pics too. 

Another hello to Archintrain!  Always great to "meet" a new member especially a home canning gardener (like me:)

You will find yourself using those 80+ books more than you might have imagined as well as being tempted by new ones as you read what everyone makes/comments on. For example, I just ordered ANOTHER preserving book that I only found out about because of a recent EYB comment :)

Originally Posted by: averythingcooks

For example, I just ordered ANOTHER preserving book that I only found out about because of a recent EYB comment :)

Hi averythingcooks, This exact thing happened to me last summer when I bought two more preserving books after reading some of your recipe reviews!

Hi - I'm Roberta Muir, an Australian-based cookbook author, recipe writer and avid EYB user over many years. But I've just started using this forum so thought I'd join the introduction thread.

I have 1,782 cookbooks in my EYB library (and a few more on my physical shelves that haven't yet been added, but not many as EYB is very good at adding books when requested) - with my magazines and my own personal recipe site, that equates to 204,889 recipes and counting - most of which I'd never find if it wasn't for EYB

I've found the site even more helpful since it's partnered with ckbk - another fabulous resource for recipe lovers

You can find out more about me at my Author's Page and view all my recipes via the links there

https://www.eatyourbooks...thors/38402/roberta-muir

If you're visiting Sydney - or just keen to chat about food, wine or travel – feel free to get in touch

Originally Posted by: Lynnette

Hi! I’m a new member as of today. I learned about EYB in a FB cookbook group but when all the oligarch brahs started getting super creepy I had to dump FB. I’m on BlueSky now but it’s not got those types of groups. So an annual membership here is my Christmas gift to myself… I’m a SPED teacher getting ready to retire this June. I divide my time between a condo in Geyserville, one of the MOST charming towns in Sonoma County wine country, a remote high elevation Cascades cabin in Southern Oregon above Ashland, and a crazy tiny beach shack off the winding road to Miloli’i in South Kona, Hawaii. My hubs lives & works full time on the big island. I just started rebuilding a collection of cookbooks. I had my favorite dozen or so I’d cooked from for years, and I’ve added another 100+ just from Friends of the Library sales and thrift shops. I have to confine my cookbook library in Geyserville to just one IKEA bookshelf, so I’m pretty picky about what I add. I can stash another one to two dozen titles at the cabin and the beach shack. When I find a recipe I love I add it to my Paprika cook book app so it’s always at my fingertips. This site will make locating recipes to try so much easier! Looking forward to meeting other cook book lovers.

Welcome from another Bay Area cohort........Although Geyserville is quite a ways up there.....

Hi Lynette!  Welcome to EYB.  I am also a retired teacher (secondary biology & chemistry) who pulled the plug in June of 2020...aka the height of the pandemic :0  

I am sure you will find that EYB takes you into your cookbooks like never before, finding recipes you didn't know you should make and that would turn out to be house favourites.  More than once, since I joined (Dec 30, 2016) I have asked myself "why have I never made this before?"  I also have to limit (ahem) my collection and have told my partner that the magic number is 185...good thing he doesn't follow EYB to see a bookshelf count of 207 :)

AND I was also very briefly on facebook for a cookbook club (NOT EYB's!) and quickly bailed...this is such a friendly, helpful community of cookbook lovers.  I hope you have fun with it.

Originally Posted by: JimCampbell

Welcome from another Bay Area cohort........Although Geyserville is quite a ways up there.....

Thank you! Yes we are really in the sticks. lol 

Originally Posted by: averythingcooks

Hi Lynette!  Welcome to EYB.  I am also a retired teacher (secondary biology & chemistry) who pulled the plug in June of 2020...aka the height of the pandemic :0  

I am sure you will find that EYB takes you into your cookbooks like never before, finding recipes you didn't know you should make and that would turn out to be house favourites.  More than once, since I joined (Dec 30, 2016) I have asked myself "why have I never made this before?"  I also have to limit (ahem) my collection and have told my partner that the magic number is 185...good thing he doesn't follow EYB to see a bookshelf count of 207 :)

AND I was also very briefly on facebook for a cookbook club (NOT EYB's!) and quickly bailed...this is such a friendly, helpful community of cookbook lovers.  I hope you have fun with it.

Thank you! Yes I hope my hubs never counts my books too!

What a wonderful surprise!

I just put 102 cookbooks on my "shelf" with several more boxes somewhere to drag into the house and add. I have the App on my phone plus on the computer so I can take full advantage.

I'm 77, happily married to a wonderful man for 36 years. Luckily we love the same foods and pretty much detest the same foods. We are blessed to live on the Oregon coast so have access to fresh seafood all year and wonderful organic & local farm grown foods in the summer.  It is inspiring to me, and now being able to actually find recipes in the cookbooks I have rather than filling more binders with recipes I've found on line. Most of my cookbooks are of different ethnicities which makes it so much fun!

Now if we could just search for "stupid simple" "my back is killing me" & "not eggs for dinner"!  I would pay good money for that!