In the interest of having a warm meal waiting for me when I get home rather late during the week (it's mid-winter here), I have bought myself a small slow cooker. Could find none currently on my local Freecycle, only rather large ones on eBay, and smaller ones proved hard to find even new.
Then, of course, I started looking for slow cooker recipe books, and felt myself at risk of slipping back into old buying habits as my local library had none that were entirely vegetarian or vegan. But what they did have included just a few recipes that I liked and could use. So I thought I could photocopy (at the cost of a few small coins) just those pages if I want. Then I realized that I could copy the text into the computer using the C-pen hand-held text scanner that I already have for my editing work.
But here comes the best bit. As a result of looking into apps for use on my newly acquired cell phone (for use when on holiday overseas - see my posts in the GPS thread), I had discovered and installed Evernote (free!). I have now set up a separate (non-synching) 'Notebook' in Evernote specially for recipes. I can scan text directly into it with the C-pen, and 'clip' complete recipes that I find online, with or without pictures. And then annotate the recipe directly on screen with my own modifications, as I try out the recipe in practice. Also search for any word, an ingredient for example, across the whole Notebook.
My own totally personalized recipe book, costing nothing.
