Ok so whether it’s pronounced mole-skin, mole-skine, or mo-les-skeen-eh, Moleskine notebooks are amazing. Growing up, I had (and still have) all sorts of sketchbooks and notebooks of all sizes, filled with doodles, drawings, stories, poems, and diary entries. I’ve ALWAYS loved notebooks. And then I found the ultimate one, thanks to the BF; he introduced me to Moleskines about four years ago. How did I miss these??
I’d like to introduce you to one of the Moleskine notebooks from the Passions series: The Recipe Journal. I was really impatient when these first came out; I called every bookstore within 20 miles to get one as soon as it came out. Don’t act so surprised… you should know this by now. Let’s a take a look at the journal.
This is the cover (oooh, observant!), and embossed with kitchen-y tools.
It comes with a bunch of goodies, like stickers and tags, so you can personalize your recipe journal as much as you want.
Within the first few pages of the journal, they have great tools, like the “Useful Measure and Conversions” chart (not shown) and a Northern and Southern Hemisphere food calendar, (shown below).
Here’s a recipe page, under the “desserts” (not deserts) tab. I like drawing little pictures of how the final product should look; and I can because there’s plenty of room to do whatever doodle I want!
You need to see a close up of that sidebar. Neat, right??
One of the best surprises in this Moleskine is the customizable index; five pages of indexing so in case your ‘Skine gets a little out of control, you can still have a sense of organization.
My ma has all of her recipes written, with PENCIL, on coffee stained index cards. This Moleskine is definitely an updated version of the recipe card. I hope they don’t stop producing these; I’ve contemplated stocking up on them, just in case. I guess you could type all your recipes and store them on your computer but… what kind of history is that? You don’t get folds, spills or stains on a computer notepad file. And then you won’t have any stories to tell. You’d be boring with your boring computer files. 
If you’ve never met a Moleskine before, you should go check them out. They’re high quality, and have great versatility; there really is a Moleskine for anything you could possibly need as an artist/writer/professional doodler.
Oh hey, how was your Thanksgiving? The BF and I spent it with three of our friends. While carving the turkey, I carved a chunk out of my first finger. Luckily, no stitches were needed, and no, um… human juice… got on the turkey.
Moleskine has absolutely no clue who I am, or that I even exist. I bought this(and other) Moleskine(s) all by myself.
