Taking up cooking as a hobby can be an enormous amount of fun. Learning recipes is part of the process. Logging various recipes you come across in a journal ensures you always have access to those special ones you wish to visit and revisit time and time again. Not having a journal could mean you may forget a great recipe so the journal becomes a reference manual of sorts. The journal can also be used to rewrite and tweak recipes so they are altered to your own desired specifications. Writing things down in a journal also allows you to organize your recipes in a way that would not be possible without a clear log.