It recently occured to me that it might be time to give away my dusty cookbooks. It's not that I know all of the recipes by heart, it's just that rather than cracking open a cookbook, if I want to cook something new, I head to allrecipes.com. I love that I can just check online and find a chicken noodle soup that 1,000 other people have tried out and reviewed before I head to the store for ingredients. I feel like each recipe comes with a guarantee that, unless I suddenly become distracted by the 100 other things I need to do each evening and leave the food in the oven until smoke is pouring out of it (not that that has ever happened), the food is going to come out tasting really good. But I still sometimes find it hard to come up with a recipe if I don't go there with one in mind already. All the recipes are there for the searching, but you have to know what you want to search for first. Then today, Toby sent me a link to the site tastespotting.com. I love this site because it shows page after page of photographs of inspiring meals. Not only that, but when you click on a photograph, it links you to a different food blog. You don't have the guarantee of 1,000 reviewers, but it's a great way to discover new and useful blogs. So go ahead, give it a try. Oh, and bon apetit!
Monday, April 27, 2009
What are you blogging for dinner?
It recently occured to me that it might be time to give away my dusty cookbooks. It's not that I know all of the recipes by heart, it's just that rather than cracking open a cookbook, if I want to cook something new, I head to allrecipes.com. I love that I can just check online and find a chicken noodle soup that 1,000 other people have tried out and reviewed before I head to the store for ingredients. I feel like each recipe comes with a guarantee that, unless I suddenly become distracted by the 100 other things I need to do each evening and leave the food in the oven until smoke is pouring out of it (not that that has ever happened), the food is going to come out tasting really good. But I still sometimes find it hard to come up with a recipe if I don't go there with one in mind already. All the recipes are there for the searching, but you have to know what you want to search for first. Then today, Toby sent me a link to the site tastespotting.com. I love this site because it shows page after page of photographs of inspiring meals. Not only that, but when you click on a photograph, it links you to a different food blog. You don't have the guarantee of 1,000 reviewers, but it's a great way to discover new and useful blogs. So go ahead, give it a try. Oh, and bon apetit!
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Thanks so much for sharing this. What a great website, the problem is I can't decide what to try first.
Hmm, I clicked on tastespotting, and there was a picture of "fish maw" soup. I'm not sure what part of a fish the maw comes from, but that's one recipe I won't be trying!! It looked icky even in the photo. (But aside from that, there is some yummy-looking stuff there...)
I use allrecipes all the time. Oh, and I like foodnetwork.com too, especially stuff by Paula Dean.
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