Finally, recipe cards that are actually worth printing (free download inside!)

So here I was, procrastinating on approximately seventeen different projects (don't judge me, we've all been there), when I suddenly had this burst of creative energy that absolutely HAD to be channeled into something useful for you lovely people. Behold: Recipe cards that don't suck!

Look, I know what you're thinking. "Recipe cards? Really? What is this, 1952?" But there is something absolutely magical about having your favorite recipes written down by hand, stored in an actual physical place in your kitchen. Not buried in your phone where you'll never find them again (RIP to all the recipes I've screenshotted and lost to the digital void). Not bookmarked in some browser tab that I'll definitely look at "later" (narrator: she never looked at it laaater).

Some examples!

One side has space to write instructions! The other has space for… ingredients, prep, cook time and how many it serves! (In my household, a 4-person dish just disappears between 2 people and a little one who mostly enjoys mayonnaise.)

I'm talking about real, tangible, double-sided recipe cards that you can:

• Splatter with actual cooking ingredients like a proper human

• Hand down to your kids someday (assuming they can still read handwriting by then, and yes pets also count as kids, and yes so do your codependent housemates)

• Store in a cute little tin that makes you feel like you have your life together

• Actually FIND when you need that one amazing recipe

These babies are designed to print double-sided because I'm not a monster who wastes paper, and they're exclusively for my wonderful subscribers because you're the ones who actually show up and read my ramblings.

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Monthly illustrated food stories: One beautifully illustrated recipe or food story each month, complete with my creative process and the tales behind each dish

bonus guides: Complete illustrated food guides (think "A Visual Guide to Herbs" or "The Story of Pasta") – mini masterpieces you can reference again and again

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Now go forth and preserve those family recipes before your aunt takes them to the grave!

With love,

Anna Lena

P.S. If you actually print these and use them, I would very much enjoy photographic evidence. Send me pics of your recipe tin situation – I live for that kind of wholesome content.