cooking recipes etc
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- aquabotic
i trying to teach myself how to cook, ha, so anybody know good websites to look at for good recipes and stuff that arent too difficult to prepare......im a little slow
- aquabotic0
oh yeah this is fucking silly, but anybody know how to make a good broccoli & cheese side dish?
i tried just boiling the broccoli and then putting pieces of shredded cheese on it but it melts too quickly & it gets all runny and shit
(i told you guys i was gay, ha)
- takashi0
I use the make a google search on what i want to cook.
normally i get different links back, from different countries, the variations for a meal are awesome.
then i check some of the sites and chose the one recipe i want to cook according to the ingredients listed, the content of my fridge, time, aso...when i dont have the time to cook, i go the local junk food provider, or get a pizza online.
if my answerd didnt make you happy, check:
http://directory.google.com/Top/…
:-)
- sexypixel0
That would be a cool idea for a website. Enter the contents of your fridge, hit search, then it returns posible dishes to make based on what you have.
- enobrev0
been wanting to do just such a thing for a long time now, although it would require a nice database of recipes to use for it.
anyways, definitely invest in 'the joy of cooking'. It's got a lot of the basics and tons of good info.
- auricom0
one of the best (of course)
go to your nearest Barnes and Noble or Borders, go to the bargin section and usually you'll find a plethora of nice cookbooks. i just recently picked up one on chocolate, japanese cooking, and barbecuing. all three cost about $12.
i almost gave up design to go to culinary school.
the best way to cook fresh broccoli is to flash cook it, bring the water to a boil, throw in the broccoli for about a minute or two. have a bowl of ice water close by then scoop the broccoli out of the hot water, into the cold. only leave it in the cold water for a few seconds.
i found the best cheese to melt would be yellow or white american cheese. get the fresh kind from a deli, not the shredded kind.
- godot0
you can do the 'type in what ingredients you have' thing at http://www.buzztoolbox.com/googl…
it uses google to search different cooking websites!also, nigel slater is the dude for easy cooking, just search the guardian website http://www.guardian.co.uk/ for 'nigel slater', i've got a crapload of recipes in a folder this way. the 'slow-cooked chicken' here is my favorite recipe of all time hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm http://observer.guardian.co.uk/f…
- NBQ000
Cowboys ate like kings. I'm eating yummy beans now too.
- ideaist3
As exciting as recipes is recipe management! What do all y'all use? Paper? App(s)??? Do tell; I started with Paprika, BUT the creater of the fantastic RSS app Reeder made "Mela" so went their BUT have fallen behind AND my wife collects recipes in a hand written binder... *sigh*
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- Dang @ 2nd image of Mela; my bad / amateur!!!ideaist
- Can we edit posts yet?!
Lolz.ideaist - One of the reasons I love cooking is a break from screens. A binder for me too, some written, some printed, most covered in splotches. Soz!MrT
- @MrT, I KEEP trying, BUT how about both?! We used to have a magnetic iPad case back in the day and we'd put it on the fridge with JUST the recipe on it...ideaist
- I like paprika. Downloads paywalled recipes, and with a family, the meal planning and shopping features are tits.robotinc
- We've got tons of books, recipes from around the world... But latelly, we've stopped experimenting and are moving towards a menu of about 15 dishes.OBBTKN
- Like MrT says, for me is a way to from being away from the screensOBBTKN
- binder is the way to gohans_glib
- When I find stuff to keep, I hit Print, save to PDF and drop it into a heirarchal folder in Drive (Main, Sides, etc.). Then when I'm ready, I grab the PDF and..elahon
- print it off. I make notes on the sheet (keeper, change this or that next time), then pop it into a folder I keep by the microwave.elahon
- Library, even keep magazine subscriptions, and then notebooks of spider charts and the flavor bible. Make your own recipes when you've nailed the techniques.canoe
- Mealie is great if you're willing to self hostakiersky
- Nice @akiersky; haven't heard of it!ideaist
- Poorly and hastily scrawled 'directions' on quarters of A4 paper, with a vague nod towards quantities, is my preferred methodology.Nairn
- Bonus points for losing, then repeating, then finding four copies of the same recipe (all not so subtly different to each oth) in a manila folder, months later.Nairn
- Even betterer - going off-piste on a recipe and coming out with something fantastic, like I did just the other week, whilst becidered, then forgetting it all.Nairn
- @nairn, the Keith Floyd method, love it. Wasted cooking is also fun, but then even less chance of an app being involved...MrT