It’s fun and more efficient to work like a line cook when you’re doing that pre-Yomtov cooking marathon.
Do you like to cook directly from a recipe? Do you cook with open cookbooks on your counters? Flip back and forth to find the recipe you’ll be preparing next? And then maybe something you planned on making falls through the cracks and you don’t notice until it’s time to serve it?
We have a fun little hack for you that can help control the cooking marathon chaos.
Print each recipe on its own page. If it’s from a cookbook, take a picture of the page and print that. Put away all the books and put down your phone – you have all the info you need in front of you.
Now you can use some painter’s tape to stick all those recipes up on your kitchen cabinets and work on them in an organized way, “filling the orders” as you move along. When a recipe is done, simply remove it from the cabinet and check if off the list. Oh, yes! The list should also be hanging from your cabinets. And the satisfaction of another item checked off the to-do list will be in full view for you to enjoy! (Suggestion: hang a shopping list next to the to-do list, because who doesn’t run to the store a million times throughout that marathon?)
Don’t have a printer in the house? Shaindy likes to print her recipes on her thermal shipping label printer. Those really look like the orders that are put through a restaurant kitchen! And Victoria has this great little thermal printer that is tiny and never needs ink. So easy to store when you aren’t using it. (The print quality isn’t great, but it’s perfect for small tasks like thisl)
Some other things that would work well with this tip? Our erev Shabbos checklist and our erev Pesach checklist, too.
Been doing this for years. Love it.
Last year, I gathered all the recipes I wanted for pesach, and put them into a single document. I printed 2 copies and stuck them in a looseleaf. That way my kids were able to access them without getting on my phone and were able to be super independent and helpful. We loved it so much that I did it again this year.
sheet protectors are also helpful so you can wipe off 🙂
I did this too as well, but I laminated the sheets and wrote my corrections, notes on a piece of painters tape as well so we can adjust the document and print again next year.
I tape all the index cards with the recipes on the inside of the doors to my Pesach kitchen…. Then I just tape it to the cabinet when I’m making the recipe and move it back when I’m done….
Thank you for this idea! It totally changed my pesach prep! First I copied all the recipes I wanted to have for pesach and put them in a binder with dividers. Every evening I put out the recipes I wanted to make the next day and wrote the kids name with a dry erase marker if it was their job and taped it to the cabinets. As we made the recipes I returned them to the binder. I’m hoping next year I will have a big headstart as I already have a selection of recipes. Thank you!