I tend to "google" a recipe if I'm looking for, say, a recipe for something in particular, like soba noodles in peanut sauce.
But the sites I tend to trust for accurate, turns out most of the time, recipes is Epicurious. I enjoy getting recipes off of various people's blogs, but I find the recipes frequently don't come out as good as the photo!
Cookbooks? I have two versions of the Joy of Cooking
, one my mom got me when I lived in my first apartment in the 1980s. When a new edition came out in 1997, she gave me that one as well; for some reason, even though I purge cookbooks from time to time, I still keep them both on the shelf. They are both such a wealth of information about all kinds of cooking and food, and a good base to learn about basic techniques and cooking methods. Armed with the informationI love cooking magazines, and I used to have a tradition a friend recommended of subscribing to one cooking magazine per year and then rotating; so I did "Cooking Light" one year, Cook's Illustrated the next, and so on. But though I love to page through them, I found that they piled up alarmingly, so I don't subscribe to any at the moment. The one cooking magazine I did frequently try recipes from was Cook's Illustrated, and they tended to be pretty great recipes.
What are your favorites?
I enjoyed Cooks Illustrated for the recipes and the science behind the cooking, but I too let my magazine subs. run out. The two websites that I use the most are myrecipes.com (compiles recipes from Cooking Light, Health and Real Simple mag. among others and, imho, includes great comments w/the ratings, suggestions for "tweaking" the recipes, etc.), and the blog crockpot365.blogspot.com. There is a cookbook that compiles the (gluten-free!) recipes from her blog into one book: Make It Fast, Cook It Slow. I also really enjoy the recipes from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.
ReplyDeletei must tell you, my favorite resource is still my mom.
ReplyDelete"Mom? How long do you cook a roast?"
"Why are your cut-out Christmas cookies better?"
I think of my mother every single time i cook something. I hope that I always will. :)