Eat Right Web: 18 Great Cooking Resources
Have you ever eaten a casserole made completely with canned ingredients and a potato chip crust? It's similar to if you've ever eaten wet cat food on a dare. It's terrible. Nevertheless, for many of us, these casseroles are as much a part of childhood as Halloween and jump rope. While we can certainly eat casserole calamities and remember our youth fondly, it's probably time we contributed some new recipes to the family cookbook - ones that don't give everyone sodium-induced hypertension. Below is a quick round up of recipe resources:
1. Recipe Puppy: Type in any ingredients you already have and recipe puppy will match them to a recipe.
2. Foodie View: A recipe website that incorporates restaurant reviews, search from major blog recipes and a healthy dose of food porn photography.
3. Recipe Matcher: This site is similar to Recipe Puppy but it uses drop downs in its search function.
4. Nibble Dish: Formerly Open Source Food, Nibble Dish is perhaps the best food porn / recipe site in existence. The site offers more than 2000 CC licensed recipes in addition to some extremely gorgeous high resolution images.
5. Top Secret Recipes: This site offers users the chance to take their favorite restaurant recipes and make them at home. Something tells me that the Carl's Jr section isn't going to be very healthy.
6. FoodNetwork: Offers users many of the recipes off the network including food by Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay and Giada de Laurentiis.
7. BBC and NYTimes Recipe Search: Both the BBC and NY Times offer recipe engines for their featured recipes. This is generally for people who are searching for a specific recipe from a previous show or article.
8. The Atlantic Monthly: These guys have an extremely sophisticated recipe site. It reads like the J. Peterman catalogue of food. If you aren't in a hurry, you can get some great recipes here.
9. Epicurious: Epicurious is a Condé Nast site that incorporates recipes from Gourmet, SELF and Bon Appétit. Recipes tend to be a little healthier and the service offers a recipe saving feature for members.
10. Tastebook: This site allows users to bookmark recipes from leading cooking sites as well as add their own recipes. Members can then create a physical cookbook. This is great for gifts.
11. Food.com: This is a recipe bookmarking service. Users can add the browser plugin and select their favorite recipes to save in their Recipe Box.
12. VideoJug: This site, while not specifically meant for cooking instructions, is a wonderful resource for budding cooks.
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13. Look and Taste: This site offers high quality professional instructional videos. The desserts section looks particularly useful for souffles and creme brulees.
14. All Recipes: This is a site dedicated to user-generated recipes (as opposed to professional recipes). The site also includes instructional video, user photos and a section for slow cooker recipes and a recipe saving tool.
15. Rouxbe: Rouxbe is a community where user-generated recipes are rated, certified and if worthy, made into professional cooking videos. After 30 days users must pay to access video recipes, but text recipes remain free.
16. YouTube: YouTube offers a selection of cooking videos from some great hosts. In particular, Toronto-based Korean cook Maangchi began uploading her videos in 2007 and has since developed a nationwide following complete with meet ups and popular classes across North America.
17. MyDamnChannel: Nobody ever expected rap artist Coolio to host his own cooking show, and it certainly is a fantastic voyage. While you may not find your culinary cravings here, the show is worth a look simply to watch Coolio throw dime bags of spice onto his creations.
18. Chowhound: While the site is perhaps best known for restaurant reviews, Chowhound has a good selection of cooking technique videos. If you can make it past the advertisements, the "You're Doing it All Wrong" series is the most informative.
We know this is just a small taste of the millions of resources available. If you've got a blog or site that you know our readers will love, let us know in the comments below.
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While it may not be a "cooking resource", my co-worker and I started a blog to share our weekday lunch ideas and recipes. Still young but you guys might like it.
http://leftoversandtakeout.com/
Thanks for this great roundup.
I'd also suggest folks take a look at my site, BigOven.com (http://www.bigoven.com). It has 170,000+ recipes, a free iPhone app, and a fun "Leftover Wizard" where you can enter up to 3 ingredients and see what to make. Currently about half a million members from around the world, and about 1,000 people joining every day. Tens of thousands of ratings from real cooks, a Foodie Q&A area, an area to find out What's In Season, roughly 600 cooking videos, and more.
BigOven.com also couples with an award-winning, optional recipe software for Windows, where you can calculate nutritional values, plan meals, generate grocery lists and more.
[disclosure -- I'm founder & CEO of BigOven.com]
Well, that's English-speaking only. But i suggest to try German cooking site http://www.chefkoch.de/. It has 130.000+ recipes, a large active community and is the #1 resource in Germany.
I would also suggest you take a look at TV show streams. There have been thousands of streams in the online archives of state television ARD und ZDF. Maybe there are also some English resources?
Nice collection Dana. I've pretty much bookmarked all of them.
"Dime bags of spice..." Great, entertaining, and informative post, Dana!
But don't knock the tato chip-topped casseroles, dude. Sometimes, it all comes down to hunger, mayonnaise, and 350 degrees of white trash goodness.
Great list! I really like the healthy recipes at dietsinreview.com. Usually a lot of healthier variations on common favorites like burger, chili, or fried chicken.
Thanks for all the great links guys! I didn't really get a chance to cover individual blogs, but one worth noting is http://fat-of-the-land.blogspot.com/. This guy is nuts. He's a locavore, but he does it in a very gourmet way. He makes stinging nettle ravioli and it looks delicious.
Hi, Great post.
Wanted to just clarify that Rouxbe is the world's first-ever online cooking school. You can see the curriculum here:
http://rouxbe.com/school
Complete with video lessons, practice exercises, quizzes, chef instructor support and progress tracking.
Yes we do enable users to upload text recipes in the "test kitchen" but we align professional produced skill & technique videos to these recipes to help drive recipe success.
Joe
CEO Rouxbe
for those who can read spanish here you have the best spaniss blog about our long and worldwide famous traditional & modern cooking culture http://garbancita.blogspot.com
One that is very similar to Recipe Puppy but I think has a much nicer, more WEB 2.0 feel is http://www.supercook.com/
The search returns recipes from a slew of different sites.
Happy cooking!
(I am not affiliated with Super Cook, but I had the idea for it a year too late ;)
My site has cooking advice & recipes, industry commentary, wine pairings and occasional ranting and raving. My current project is to cook my way through a book on Paris Bistro cooking and I'm blogging about it.
One of my favorite food/cooking sites is 101cookbooks.com. It's Heidi Swanson's "recipe journal," where she reports on recipes she's discovered in other cookbooks, recipes she gets from other people and places, and her own recipes.
She focuses on whole foods and vegetarian recipes, but she's not a veggie snob. She gives really good advice on cooking with fresh, healthy ingredients.
If you're a vegetarian or a vegan, it's an invaluable resource. If you're an omnivore (like me!), it's easy to add meat to a lot of her dishes, or complement her dishes with a meat dish.
I really recommend this site!
https://twitter.com/theboygeorge
Boy george (yes, the singer) is an accomplished Cookbook author and TWEETs Pics of his macrobiotic/Vegan/raw creations...
BTW-His cookbook is available on Amazon. Its called Karma Cookbook
Preesi...OMG. This is amazing. Thank you.
Hi Dana
This is a good collection, you may also want to check out www.sanjeevkapoor.com
This is probably the best Indian Food site, from Chef Sanjeev Kapoor, who is also the best known TV show host (of Khana Khazana)
The guy has also published more than 100 cook books, i would surely recommend this as one of your top sites when Indian food is concerned.
Cheers, Jaya
This list is great! As a gourmet and pastry enthusiast, these sites would really help learn new and creative cooking techniques and recipes. I also came across a cool website it's The Swiss Taste. The site gives sample family-secret Swiss recipes and cooking tips. I hope that this site would be included here in the future.
Saudi Samboosak
Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour - 2 grated onions
- 1 1/2 cups oil - 1 tsp. ground black pepper
- 1 tsp. yeast, - 1 tsp. cumin
- oil for frying
- water
- 1 lb. ground beef or lamb
Method:
Put the flour in a deep bowl, add the yeast and salt. Add the oil and rub with fingertips. Add water and a pinch of salt a little at a time, mixing thoroughly until dough is binding. Divide into small pieces, place on a tray and put in a warm place for one hour. Put ground meat, onion, salt, pepper and cumin in a frying pan and cook over low heat. Cool. Roll each piece of dough into a round, about 1/16 inch thick. Place a tablespoon of meat in the center of each round and seal then twist the edges. Heat the oil and deep fry the samboosak on both sides. Serve hot. Serves 8-10 persons.
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My favorite recipe site is Eliza Domestica. It has quality healthy recipes with a personal touch. Focus on vegan and vegetarian ingredients also.
If you want to have some fun with recipes, check out
cookwithgoogle.com.
It has a fun feature called "jackpot" that randomly picks potential recipes from over 400 different ingredients and categories.