Recipes: Cook Well with the Web
Why bother with cumbersome cookbooks when you can find easy recipes online? The Recipes Web Guide collects the best links for finding an amazing array of online food recipes within a myriad of cuisine types.
Looking for classic and contemporary baking recipes? Try the Web Guide to Baking for helpful baking tips, techniques and recipes.
If you want to make vegetarian recipes like a pro, try the Web Guide to Vegetarianism and the Web Guide to Veganism for meat-free recipes that are easy to make and explosively flavorful.
Learn how to prepare meat simply and elegantly, how to whip up a homemade béchamel sauce, and find all recipes in between, complete with tips and words of advice from seasoned chefs and food enthusiasts alike.
- Consider making a “Recipes” folder in your bookmark bar where you can store recipe links for easy access later on.
For professionally tested recipes and complete menus …
Epicurious
features well-tested recipes and a thorough search feature that helps you find what you're looking for. Register to create a personal online recipe file and save your notes on any dish.
Food Network
helps you find recipes from your favorite TV chefs. The site only contains dishes that have been featured on Food Network. If you can't find a particular recipe, visit the chef’s personal Web site.
Martha Stewart
offers a collection of recipes and advice from Martha’s many magazines. With recipe categories like “Quick,” “Holiday,” “Baking” and “Beverages,” you’re bound to find something you’d like to make.
Simply Recipes
is the essence of what a good cooking Web site can be: It combines recipes passed down through author Elise Bauer's family with new discoveries, all tested and retested before being posted.
Cooking.com
has a “Recipes & More” section that's chock-full of recipes from sources around the Web. Recipes are conveniently arranged by main ingredient and category so that you can find exactly what you need quickly.
The Joy Kitchen
is the online supplement to the classic cookbook, "Joy of Cooking." Find seasonal foods and practices, like grilled corn in the summer. Search the "Recipe Box" on the lower left to access the full recipe collection.
For interactive recipe sites …
Lookin’ at Cookin’
hosts a library of video recipes, each presented by a chef from a successful New York restaurant. Don’t worry if you didn’t catch that last essential step; just play back the clip and your soufflé will still be a success.
Allrecipes
is a community-based site that serves up recipes at every skill level, tested—and often submitted—by its members. The site is loaded with extras, including video tutorials, healthy eating advice and more.
BlogHer
is a network of sites run by women. The “Food & Drink” section is a great place to find recipes and cooking hints from home cooks of all flavors.
Chow
is the site for “Chowhounds,” people who don’t consider themselves food snobs but love finding great eats nonetheless. Look for recipes by the site’s writers, and boards where members share kitchen secrets.
The Great Family Cookbook Project
lets you create online or printed cookbooks full of your family’s favorite dishes. Finally you’ll have a place to keep all of your preferred recipes together. Go to “
The Process” to learn how to get started.
Who knew?
The Secret Recipe Blog
creates and shares copycat versions of popular supermarket and restaurant favorites. Sssshh!
Top Secret Recipes
includes hundreds of dead-on recreations of restaurant. Many are free but others are 79 cents each—a small price to pay if you’ve got to know how to recreate your favorite Olive Garden dish.
Discover what ingredients create the distinctive flavors specific to each type of ethnic cuisine, and how you can make your favorite ethnic recipes with the sites below.
Looking for a wide variety of Asian recipes? The Web Guide to Asian Food and Cuisine links to resources on the dishes typical of China, India, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and Korea.
Use the Web Guide to French Food and Cuisine to discover the history of French food and cooking, and find tons of French recipes.
The Web Guide to Italian Food and Cuisine shows you where to find Italian recipes, Italian cooking classes and even Italian food blogs.
If Mexican food is your favorite, see the Web Guide to Mexican Food and Cuisine to learn where to buy Mexican ingredients online, and how to make Mexican recipes at home.
- If you’re interested in a cuisine not included here, try visiting Web sites that feature information about the country whose food you love. Consulate- or government-sponsored tourist Web sites often have sections on food with popular recipes.
- Many of the major cooking sites recommended in this guide have ethnic recipes. Type the kind of cuisine you’re looking for into a general search box on those sites; you’re especially likely to find French and Italian recipes this way.
- If you live in a big city, visit an ethnic market to find the esoteric ingredients that add the telltale flavors to your dish of choice.
For a wide range of cuisine types …
Food & Wine
provides recipes for American, Asian, Caribbean, French, Italian and Mexican cuisines. Links come with pictures and cocktail recommendations.
RecipeSource
is an online index of recipes. There are no pictures and the site design is simple, but the breadth of the recipe selection is astounding.
Recipezaar
indexes a number of ethnic cuisines. You’ll find African, Asian, European, North American, Oceanian and South American food; each of these categories is divided into even more specific cultural cuisines.
Jewish Recipes
offers traditional Jewish recipes as well as kosher recipes from various cuisines. Find links to wine, recipes for specific Jewish holidays, a glossary of terms and descriptions of kosher cookware and practices.
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