Our friend Kelli Taylor shared this chartreuse/chocolate Kolo Trivino recipe binder of hers. She’s putting another one together for her mom as a Mother’s Day gift, pairing it with the mango/red “Take-Out Trivino."
I like the cloth covers on the Kolo Trivino binders, but I don’t want them to get splattered in the kitchen, so while I’m using a recipe, I just remove the entire page from the binder, and replace it when I’m done.
My family and friends are into sharing recipes. My favorite recipe site is epicurious.com, and I had a bunch of their recipes bookmarked. So I finally printed those and made extra copies on triple-hole punched paper. I keep the duplicates behind the original print-outs as extras to give away.
You could just load the pages directly into the binder, but I like these top-loading Trivino refill sheets because they protect the print-outs from getting wet or stained.
Oh yeah, like my Take-Out Trivino’s, this binder also has an envelope at the back -- purgatory for loose recipe cards I tend to collect. They can hang out there ‘til I manage to get them into 4”x6” photo sleeve pages.
Kelli came up with a great way to organize menus from her favorite eateries -- she put them all in a Kolo Trivino 3-Ring Binder. It worked out so well for her that she’s making another one for her mom.
I like this as a gift idea because it actually solves a little problem for someone in a fun way. Plus, what mom doesn’t love to get something that you made yourself?
This was easy and fun. All I did was triple-hole punch all our take-out menus. (For the smaller menus not big enough to take 3 holes, I was careful to orient those to the top of the triple-hole punch so I got at least 2 holes in ‘em.)
When I chose my Kolo Trivino binder cover, I also ordered some of the Kolo Trivino Series P Refill Sheets for this project. They’re already 3-hole punched and ready to add to your binder. I got the Divider Tab Refills (I like that they’re clear); the Black Envelope (it’s so cool-looking); Black Grommet Pages (to use as section dividers) and the 2-Up Photo-Sleeve Sheets.
I labeled the divider tabs using a Sharpie marker to organize the menus into different food categories. (You could label the tabs using a label maker, but I like the authenticity of handwriting.)
The envelope at the back of the binder is Take-Out Menu Purgatory -- a place to stash new menus as we get them, until I get around to triple-hole punching and filing them in the binder later.
For my own Take-Out Trivino, just for fun, I’ve taken photos of some of the best dishes we’ve ordered, then printed and mounted them onto the 4”x6” paper inserts that come in the 2-Up Photo-Sleeves, then just slid them back into the photo-sleeves. My husband and I write our own reviews on these. It would be fun to take pictures of us together with our friends to add to the binder, too, maybe on Netflix Movie & Take-Out Night, and ask them to write their own comments in the margins.
