Last week’s poll asked about your experiences with giving or receiving good deeds. While there probably have been any number of good deeds I missed over the years on both sides of the fence, I gave a list of a few that really stuck out in my mind and everyone else did as well. I was particularly at both the low overall response to the poll itself (not the comments) and the buying of a meal for someone behind you in line at a drive-through. The drive-through deal was something I’d never witnessed or even thought about, pretty cool stuff.
This week’s poll comes from reader Sandy who asked where you get your recipes from. There are any number of sources available to people including passed down through the oral tradition, written down recipes from others in the family, cookbooks, and online resources to name the obvious ones.
Personally I have both oral tradition, written down recipes (my parents sent me a Word document several years ago of our family’s holiday and every day recipes which I use often), and food blogs. I generally don’t use cookbooks all that often but I have thumbed through them a bit when I was really looking for something different. Below I have listed the food blogs I have been saving items from most recently. I would love to see your sources and maybe a few recipes from them which you love best.
Food blogs that have recently caught my eye:
- 1. Saveur
2. Roost.
4. Serious Eats (I have made MANY items from here).
5. Closet Cooking (I can’t count how many favorites come from here)
I am one of those people who is more interested in the photography than the food sometimes but I do make recipes often and some of those recipes have become regular items in our rotation. Hopefully you can add to the lists of everyone here with your own ideas and recipes.
First thing, hop on over to the sidebar and choose where you get your recipes from most often and then comment on below with recipes, links, and discussion in general before checking out our expired polls in the archive or reading through the previous posts about polls here.
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January 20th, 2013 at 8:25 am
I admit I didn’t vote in the poll last week although I did comment. Would it be possible to move the poll up a bit further? People, like me, may be missing it because of needing to scroll so far down.
As for where I get my recipes, I’m a long time Cooking Light subscriber and while some issue provide a lot of recipes I want to try, this most recent one for example only had a couple. That’s fine though; otherwise I’d have even more in the “to try out” pile than I already do. But there are also some food bloggers I enjoy, The Dabble (http://thedabble.com/), PDXFoodLove (http://pdxfoodlove.com/), as well as Epicurious.
January 20th, 2013 at 9:41 am
There’s a site that combines the latest entries from a lot of different food blogs which I love – http://punchfork.com/
Although apparently it’s been bought out by Pinterest so I’m curious to see how Pinterest will integrate this idea in the future.
January 20th, 2013 at 10:34 am
I like to use Cooks.com or AllRecipes.com if I have something in mind that I want to make, then I pick the best recipe.
Yummly.com is nice too because if you search for a specific dish, it pulls from many different sources and displays pics. and links to the recipes from the original web site, sort of like using Expedia or Kayak for travel.
I do have printed recipes from family, friends and classics but the internet is surely the best resource.
January 20th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
I have a few treasured family recipes, but for the most part I find my own. My mother and grandmother had reputations for being great cooks, but in their eras the food was generally plain and bland – not very adventuresome, as this was a foreign concept to them in more ways than one!
I have a cookbook library of approx. 475 books – down from the 550 that it used to be. I love to read cookbooks to learn from them, be inspired by them, and for their sheer beauty. Current favorites are Christmas gifts: Bouchon Bakery and Secrets of the Jewish Bakery.
That said, when I need to know something or need a recipe right now, the internet is my go-to. I like Serious Eats a lot. I also use Smitten Kitchen, epicurious, and more that I can’t think of right now. Oh, I like David Lebovitz, too.
There are many overrated cooking websites – Pioneer Woman and Taste of Home come to mind, among many others.
January 20th, 2013 at 1:41 pm
I use a lot from skinnytaste.com.
Low fat, low cal recipes that actually taste good.
January 20th, 2013 at 3:41 pm
I come from a long line of not very good cooks. And I’m a ethnic mutt, so there aren’t any ethnic recipes my family has handed down, so my family is never the source of recipes.
I love cookbooks and would buy them all the time if I could afford it. I have a rule that I must get the cookbook from the library before purchase. It keeps me from buying an untested cookbook. I have about 40 cookbooks. I also get Cooking Light, though I rarely use the recipes.
Most of my recipes that I use come from online. I really like epicurious.com for recipes. I like that you can search by ingredient, so if I have some eggplant or something that needs using, I can browse eggplant recipes. I also like the homecooking section of chow.com. Smitten kitchen (not to be confused with smitten kitten, which I love for other things), Serious Eats and David Lebovitz are other favorites.
January 20th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
I love using the Internet to find recipes to try. I think my Mom would have loved the ease of finding recipes now. I have many from my Mom that I use. I echo P- Funk’s recommend of skinnytaste.com. I have cookbooks that I go for old favorite, but I’d say at least 75% of the time I search the web.
January 20th, 2013 at 9:04 pm
I search for recipes on the Google. I also subscribe to Foodily, which sends me an email with links to a ton of recipes each week. I pin the ones that sound promising on Pinterest. I just went through a bunch of hard copy cookbooks and will be taking a crate to Half Price Books sometime in the next week or so.
January 21st, 2013 at 9:06 am
Epicurious and Cooks Illustrated are my go to places but yummly and cookthink have been recent places that I’ve found things.
January 21st, 2013 at 12:55 pm
I use a few online sites and get a lot of recipes from my Real Simple and Redbook mags. The sites I use most often are cooks.com, foodgawker, iowagirleats.com, and skinny taste. I also have a number of older cookbooks that I use. My favorite is a compliation of recipes from the staff at my aunt’s work, EROS Data Center, where you can find recipes from meatloaf to SOS to Beef Pudding.
No, I have not yet made the beef pudding.
January 23rd, 2013 at 11:22 am
I love checking out different sites for recipes but lately, my favorites are We Got Fed and Picky Palate. My grandma is constantly updating me on recipes I should try as well.
January 23rd, 2013 at 12:30 pm
I love closet cooking & simply recipes too! A lot of times I’ll just Google specific items that I want to make, and surf from there. If there’s a recipe that I particularly like I’ll print it out and stick it in a binder.
I don’t really use many family recipes because my family eats differently from the way I’ve chosen to eat. I use some recipes for hors d’oeuvres and desserts when I’m going to family events. Otherwise, the only one I use is for my grandma’s “crepes.”
People seem to like to give be cookbooks as gifts, so I use those too! I like Mark Bittman’s book “How to Cook Everything” for basics/advice. I have had pretty good luck with “The Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen Cookbook,” too! Otherwise I will sometimes randomly page through cookbooks for ideas/inspiration. I like to write notes in them/mark off the recipes I’ve tried! = )
January 23rd, 2013 at 1:35 pm
For organizing recipes on your laptop, Pepperplate is a nice site.
January 23rd, 2013 at 3:43 pm
I like SouthernBite.com – Some great recipes, oh and a kick-ass logo. ;-)
January 27th, 2013 at 7:07 am
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