Creating Your Own delicious Cookbook
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Update: Yahoo has made major changes at delicious.com, the result being that the Simply Recipes page at delicious.com no longer works. ~Elise 3/3/11
If you look up lots of recipes online, and then add them to your favorites, sooner or later your favorites list can get a little unwieldy. The solution? Check out the social bookmarking site delicious.com. I recently started using delicious to keep track of promising links from other sites. My "virtual cookbook" (http://delicious.com/simplyrecipes/) has a ton of great recipes, mostly from other food blogs, and new ones are easy to add.
There are several advantages of using a service like delicious.com to create your own cookbook. One benefit is the extensive tagging capabilities. You can categorize, or "tag", a link with any category you want, whatever makes sense to you. In a way, you are building a subject index for all of your links. I often tag recipes with their main ingredients, so if I want to look up all the salad recipes, that's easy to do. Another cool feature is to see what recipes other people find interesting enough to include in their del.icio.us bookmarks. Here are some of the more currently popular dessert links on delicious.
Creating Your Own delicious Cookbook
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Getting set up with delicious.com is easy, and free.
1 Sign up at http://delicious.com. The sign-up procedure will walk you through the easiest registration on the planet.
2 Click on the "post to delicious" and/or the "my delicious" images and drag them up to your browser's bookmarks bar. It should end up looking something like this:

Now if you find a great recipe online, just add it to your delicious.com collection by clicking on the "post to delicious" button in your bookmarks bar. Assign it some tags. It's as easy as that.
3 Most people who use del.icio.us use it for more than just recipes, clearly. So as to not mix up the recipe links with other links, create a tag "bundle" for your recipes and bundle your recipe oriented tags under that bundle. You can also take the additional step of tagging all of your recipe links with "recipe" or "recipes".
4 If you do set up an "virtual cookbook" at delicious, please add me to your delicious.com network and let me know so I can add you to mine.
5 Finally, I've added a little delicious.com button to the bottom of every post in Simply Recipes. If you click on that button, it will take you to delicious.com and prompt you to add the link to your delicious bookmarks.
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