Mumrousse goes digital

I've always collected recipes. Recipes passed on from family are some of my favourites; I learned to cook from my mum and my nanna and in turn my kids have learned from my mum and me. The life we've led has taken us to live in various places around the world, and many of my favourite memories are of foods discovered and recipes given to me by friends I've met in our travels. I've also got stacks of recipes from magazines and newspapers, from the backs of food packets or from those cards you pick up in the supermarket. And now more often than not, recipes from the internet.  They all get bunged into a binder, currently an old English binder from my son's schooldays. The previous binder disintegrated from overuse and the most popular recipes have become increasingly food-spattered and dog-eared.  I'm glad that my children delve into the folder to find certain recipes when they're left to fend for themselves or have headed off to uni or just fancy baking something. My middle son in particular loves to cook and is amassing quite a collection of cookbooks, including Escoffier and Larousse Gastronomique. It was he who christened my ratty old recipe binder the Mumrousse.

 Now the recipes are falling out again and the binder is overflowing. It's hard to find the recipe I want. It needs sorting out, forgotten recipes cooked again, perhaps to delight once more or perhaps to be relegated to the reject pile. So here goes, I'm putting my favourite recipes into this blog so that the whole family can find them whenever they want.