Noble book with space for essentials

I am not nor do I enjoy watching most amateur cook to cook, but I had to put an end to the paper chaos that had established itself in recent years. At first I was skeptical when buying - especially considering the price. In my skepticism despite the Moleskine Journal Recipe perfectly suited to take the small recipe beads that have been compiled over the years from family, friends and the Internet in a sturdy book.

And it's really tough! DIN A5 size (only slightly smaller) with a hard cover. As on the product image can be seen clearly the outlines of various cooking utensils are stamped on the front; Back and spine are blank. Three different colored bands as a bookmark and a folding pocket are two compartments at the end of the book.

The book contains the first two pages each, divided into months overviews of seasonal food; who does not have the English name of the food in the head, using the enclosed translation booklets. ;) After five pages (3 episodes prefilled, 2 blank) for nutritional information, as well as in Europe rather not so useful US-conversion table.

At the core of the book of 2 × 6 categories, of which the first 6 are already preprinted ("Appetizers", "First Courses", "Main Dishes", "Side Dishes", "desserts", "cocktails"). In each section each 17 pages is space for ingredients, instructions for preparation and information on difficulty level and preparation time as well as one bifurcated area for notes. At the bottom there are each 5 star to fill in for an evaluation of the court - but who writes a court in this book, he does not like?

Because you should be limited to the essential recipes: Only the first 6 registers provide the above-mentioned recipe allocation. The remaining 6 blank sections are divided per page just in 5 equal lines. This provides a maximum of 6 × 17 recipes available. Sounds a lot, but it's not even for me cooking muffle. One should pick up just so far.

At the end of the book, there are a few blank pages and a table of contents, in which you can write in all the recipe name to maintain the overview. As the pages of the book are completely numbered (great thing!), So you can quickly look up something. From the enclosed stickers I personally only Chilies and the small season-sticker (flower, sun, leaf, ice crystal) really useful; the vacuous slogans such as "Best Ever!" "Wow!" or "hate it" (!?), however, are quite dispensable.

So in short: It is robust, it accommodates favorite recipes and it looks to still wonderfully wertig from. For treasures it is perfect; the enthusiastic amateur chef but get space problems. But I am inspired and think it's his almost 20 EUR worth quite. :)