I am a fan of the PDFs as if I want to keep a recipe, if I love a recipe, I can put it in my trusty three ring binder of recipes - I am really trying to have less time on screens and more hand written notations for my future self!
Birthdays begin at our house with streamers decorating the bedroom door of the “the birthday celebrant.“ I started this when my boys were little and I thought what could I commit to doing every year…I have a stash of streamers that I pull out every year. I‘m feeling a bit nostalgic about this today. We’re in Memphis to celebrate my oldest son‘s college graduation and today is his birthday. I‘m now wondering what birthday rituals (or other rituals) as my children live in their own homes.
Jenny, I really *hate, hate, hate* the PDFs! My beloved recipe app, Paprika, can’t download from them, so if I want that recipe, I have to go through the many steps of entering it manually. This forces me to think, “How badly do I want this one? Is it worth it?” And usually the answer is no.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to let you know how frustrating your PDFs are for me!
PDFs. I can open and refer back to it in my browser tabs. Whereas a recipe will get forgotten about in the sea of emails or screenshotted and never returned to.
I’m experimenting with that - it’s the reheating that’s tricky, so far I haven’t figured out how to combat sogginess. I’ll report back. I know people do this all the time!
Seems I’m the rare subscriber that likes the pdf recipes. I read this newsletter in the Substack app on my phone and it’s much easier for me to save pdf recipes to access later in my Notes app then to save posts that I have to go back and read through later to figure out what recipe I saved the post for. I love your recipes, have all your books and have been a long time reader, but I must say the pdf recipes are a bit hard to follow in their format. I prefer some shorter steps, color, text boxes. I’m a big fan of Pinch of Yum blog. I would point to her as having excellent printable recipe format. Thanks for asking for feedback and for all your great content!
A walk every night after dinner with my husband has been a wonderful ritual for us.
The breakfast burrito reminds me of your mushroom kale tacos we made last night. Same flavors - all work together. Looking forward to trying these breakfast ones.
I do find I like to go back to a newsletter to find the recipe written in, but can save the PDF as well.
I also prefer the recipes written in-line in the newsletter! As a free subscriber, I think the older PDFs become inaccessible? It could be a bug, but when I hit "download" on older newsletters, I'm prompted to log in, but before I'm able to, the page auto-redirects to the home page. Sometimes I save the newsletter to read much later (a treat!), so I've run into this. In any case, I love reading all the Things, and included recipes are an extra bonus that are appreciated :)
Have you tried the add recipe feature on Substack? It allows the reader to print a copy. Took me awhile to find it but that solved the printable recipe problem for me. Now I just have to go back and use it to make the recipes in my first posts printable😜
I am a fan of the PDFs as if I want to keep a recipe, if I love a recipe, I can put it in my trusty three ring binder of recipes - I am really trying to have less time on screens and more hand written notations for my future self!
Jenny, your list of rituals were inspiring and fun.
One of our favorite rituals is restating our vows on our anniversary.
No big audience, just the two of us affirming mutual love.
Thanks for sharing.
❤️❤️❤️ Love "bites of passage" so much!
We never set out for the three hour drive to my in-laws without a bag of Sour Patch Kids.
Don’t Overthink It Dinners--is this your next book!? So good.
I'm team PDF. If I really want the recipe I can print it out. I'll never go back to it in a saved email.
Same. ;)
Birthdays begin at our house with streamers decorating the bedroom door of the “the birthday celebrant.“ I started this when my boys were little and I thought what could I commit to doing every year…I have a stash of streamers that I pull out every year. I‘m feeling a bit nostalgic about this today. We’re in Memphis to celebrate my oldest son‘s college graduation and today is his birthday. I‘m now wondering what birthday rituals (or other rituals) as my children live in their own homes.
Jenny, I really *hate, hate, hate* the PDFs! My beloved recipe app, Paprika, can’t download from them, so if I want that recipe, I have to go through the many steps of entering it manually. This forces me to think, “How badly do I want this one? Is it worth it?” And usually the answer is no.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to let you know how frustrating your PDFs are for me!
PDFs. I can open and refer back to it in my browser tabs. Whereas a recipe will get forgotten about in the sea of emails or screenshotted and never returned to.
One vote for the PDFs. I find it easy to print my favs to keep in a binder.
Trying the breakfast burrito soon-do you think they would do well in the freezer?
I’m experimenting with that - it’s the reheating that’s tricky, so far I haven’t figured out how to combat sogginess. I’ll report back. I know people do this all the time!
I like the pdf’s and often will print them to add to my own cookbook binder.
Also love your index so I can easily find a recipe at a later date.
Seems I’m the rare subscriber that likes the pdf recipes. I read this newsletter in the Substack app on my phone and it’s much easier for me to save pdf recipes to access later in my Notes app then to save posts that I have to go back and read through later to figure out what recipe I saved the post for. I love your recipes, have all your books and have been a long time reader, but I must say the pdf recipes are a bit hard to follow in their format. I prefer some shorter steps, color, text boxes. I’m a big fan of Pinch of Yum blog. I would point to her as having excellent printable recipe format. Thanks for asking for feedback and for all your great content!
A walk every night after dinner with my husband has been a wonderful ritual for us.
The breakfast burrito reminds me of your mushroom kale tacos we made last night. Same flavors - all work together. Looking forward to trying these breakfast ones.
I do find I like to go back to a newsletter to find the recipe written in, but can save the PDF as well.
Thanks Jenny!
I also prefer the recipes written in-line in the newsletter! As a free subscriber, I think the older PDFs become inaccessible? It could be a bug, but when I hit "download" on older newsletters, I'm prompted to log in, but before I'm able to, the page auto-redirects to the home page. Sometimes I save the newsletter to read much later (a treat!), so I've run into this. In any case, I love reading all the Things, and included recipes are an extra bonus that are appreciated :)
The add recipe feature is great! And so are PDFs! Thanks for sharing what you share to free subscribers. 😘
Have you tried the add recipe feature on Substack? It allows the reader to print a copy. Took me awhile to find it but that solved the printable recipe problem for me. Now I just have to go back and use it to make the recipes in my first posts printable😜