Are your favorite recipes a pile of newspaper clippings, scribbled index cards and gravy-stained napkins? Are your recipes a mess?

Dana Hannah can help.

The Fox Chapel woman has started Your Messy Recipes, a service that takes your recipes, in whatever form, and organizes them on a computer document that she prints out and binds as a custom cookbook.

She did her first one at Christmas, compiling her favorites with recipes from her and her friends' dining club. Now she's doing cookbooks for other people, charging $2 per recipe, which gets you a spell-checked book with an index, as well as an electronic version from which you can print (and can take, say, on vacation). Add color pages and photographs for additional charges. You get a 25 per cent discount for cookbooks with more than 100 recipes. And you can buy copies of your book for $20 a piece ($10 on compact disc).

The books are great for gifts, says this woman who used to work selling medical devices. "It is a little pricey," she says, but it's also "really time consuming."

For more information, visit yourmessyrecipes.com or contact her at Dana_Hanna@hotmail.com or 412-215-1444.

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