A few years ago I finally joined Facebook, and quickly joined Pinterest after that. (Yes, while testing that link, I got sucked in and pinned things.) Pinterest has been wonderful. It is fun, and helpful while being a major time suck as well. It has been most useful for me when I use it to find recipes, and then to store them. It is great being able to look up a recipe wherever I am. To minimize the amount of time wasted when I'm looking for recipes I quickly learned that I needed to make notations on my recipe pins so I'd know whether to attempt a recipe a second time or not, based on how it turned out and how my family responded to it. (To be fair, I've done this since my boys were quite little, jotting on my paper recipes the date made, any variations to the recipe, and each family member's input.)
Then I started wishing that my friends would note how they liked recipes they've pin, assuming they've actually made them. (HINT, HINT!) So I made two new Pinterest boards so I could at least do that for my friends. Once I've actually made a recipe, the pin gets moved, along with my initialed and dated notes to one of two boards, Z Recipes I've Tried & liked, or Z Recipes I've Tried & won't make again. (They have Z's in front because I sort my boards alphabetically and put the ones I pin into most often with the earlier letters. E.g., A Crafts, B Interesting Design/Product.)
Now to provide you with something useful. Skillet Chili Mac pin has been my most passed on and liked internet recipe. I hope you enjoy it too. Please note that the pin links to a recipe organizing site, ZipList.com which I haven't tried out at all, and that site links to the full recipe at DeepSouthDish.com. I have been working on perfecting a crock pot version of this recipe, and will post it and my tips once I've successfully repeated it. Wish me luck.
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