Comments on: Recipe Finding Poll

By: How Do You Wake Up Poll | Bill Roehl

How Do You Wake Up Poll | Bill Roehl — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:07:08 +0000

[...] week’s poll asked where you get your recipes from. While I have used any number of sources (family, friends, web, etc) to get recipes to make at [...]

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:43:56 +0000

I like SouthernBite.com – Some great recipes, oh and a kick-ass logo. ;-)

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By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:35:50 +0000

For organizing recipes on your laptop, Pepperplate is a nice site.

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By: Alissa

Alissa — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:30:01 +0000

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! = )

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By: Dani J

Dani J — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:22:19 +0000

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.

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By: Aliecat

Aliecat — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:55:30 +0000

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.

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By: Jim Calkins

Jim Calkins — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:06:38 +0000

Epicurious and Cooks Illustrated are my go to places but yummly and cookthink have been recent places that I’ve found things.

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By: UpWithTheMooses

UpWithTheMooses — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:04:18 +0000

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.

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By: Ronalee

Ronalee — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:38:33 +0000

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.

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By: Kassie

Kassie — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:41:55 +0000

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.

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By: P-Funk

P-Funk — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:41:23 +0000

I use a lot from skinnytaste.com.

Low fat, low cal recipes that actually taste good.

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By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:22:27 +0000

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.

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By: Ron P.

Ron P. — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:34:47 +0000

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.

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By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:41:07 +0000

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.

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By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:25:56 +0000

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.

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