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Cooking with the Internet?
VonGuard asks: "Not all of you live on ramen and coffee. At some point, you have to cook, and the Internet should be a great place to find recipes. Is there a Google for recipes. And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net? So, is anyone working on this, or is there something the rest of us don't know about yet?"
I'd try Allrecipes.com. I've gotten some good recipes from there.
You mentioned Google, so why not use it?
Here is the first result, just to get you started : Allrecipes index of 23,000 recipes.
Is there a Google for recipes
I like to use Food Network. I have found quite a few useful recipes there (one of my favorite was when I cooked for my gf's brother-in-law who is a vegetarian... Portabellas with spinach salad in an eggplant dressing.)
And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net?
I once heard a story of a woman that was eating a dessert at a restaurant and thought it was so
incredible that she just HAD to have the recipe. She asked the Chef and he at first declined but
after her continued insistance a typed sheet was delivered to the woman's table that included the
recipe and the bill. She read through the recipe and was delighted. She looked at the bill and
it was well over $500. She became infuriated and asked to see the Chef. He explained that her
bill was $100 and the cost of the receipe was $400.
Perhaps that's why,
Oh, come on now. Recipes were one of the first things I ever saw posted on the Internet even back when it was Arpanet. In fact, one of the reasons Xerox PARC gave for developing the GUI was to allow everyone to interact with a computer, even "kitchen wives" could be able to easily store and retrieve recipes on a computer without having to use "arcane" symbology.
To answer your question though, I think this link should be more than Slashdot worthy. The show is great, sufficiently geeky, and life is simply too short not to eat.....Good Eats.
There are many, many other links to recipes on the Internet. Food Network is one and Epicurious are the other principle resources I use.
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
Seriously though, try all recipes if you want something a little less generic.
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What would really be great is an Internet Cook Book Database. Set up to model after IMDB of course.
Yes, it's just the regular old Google. I used it all the time to find recipes.
This cookbook has been a tecchie staple for years!
epicurious.com lots of good food, nice search, reader feedback
I'm not sure a central repository is all that necessary. It's relatively easy to find five variations on whatever I want to cook, from which I can place a pretty educated guess as to which recipe I would rather use. (Based on ingredients, obvious "convenience substitutions", etc.) It's really a fascinating practice: looking at five different recipes, seeing their similarities and differences, learning the central core theme to the composition, and seeing where different cooks have developed their own riffs.
(I guess I'm saying that if you want a large collection of standard recipes, go buy your requisite copy of the Joy of Cooking. Otherwise, embrace heterogeneity.)
I really haven't explained why a central Google/Open/Wiki cookbook would work against this. I just think that once people saw a recipe had been submitted, they would be less inclined to upload their slightly different version. Maybe such a global project would benefit by somehow encouraging the submission of many varieties, including a "moderation system" by which culinary enthusiasts might edit the variations-on-a-theme and even write editorials on how and why the variations exist, which provide useful time-saving substitutions, when a certain ingredient of method is really necessary to make the "Real McCoy", etc.
Another thing worth mentioning: there are already dozens of "cooking sites" that provide this service, most of them are very "open" allowing easy submission and access. I think a big Open Initiative is successful when there AREN'T pre-existing sites providing a service, or when the sites try to restrict access by forcing a paid subscription model. (Like Wikipedia to online Encyclopedias.) The addition of some generic Open cooking site would become "just another cooking site".
A funny side-note. I've benefitted by the LACK of such a central source. I have a website that I've been cultivating for under a year, where I've put creative (written, artistic, photographic, computing, etc.) works. I've done everything possible to cultivate this site so that visitors would come to it. The thing that brings the most visitors to my site? My "Basic Crepe Recipe". For some funny reason nobody else in the world has a higher Google-ranked Basic Crepe Recipe. (Okay, recently I got knocked down to #2.) So this little "afterthought" has become a leading constant influx of visitors.
Murray Todd Williams
I only ever get as far as the Nigella Lawson pictures...
*sigh*
I love AllRecipes.com. In fact I'm planning on putting a touch-screen flat panel in my kitchen so I can use that site from there.
Everything from vegetarian to carnivore to bread machine recipes are there.
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No such thing as too many cooks spoil the broth, I think. A wiki would be the perfect solution for this, as long as the interest is there.
:-). it's easier that way when you screw up, and is a whole lot easier than when you're partnered later!.
I'm thankful I learned how to cook and cook well when I was younger, but there is ALWAYS something to learn from someone else. It's not some exact science or mysterious voodoo, just something anyone with a little creativity and some basic knowledge can build on.
PS. Experiment most when you're single
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Whenever I'm in the mood for, say, lamb, I just hit Google and punch in "lamb" and "recipe". Poof, lots of hits. Some of them are online recipe books and some are little webpages by folks who got a few megs web space with their Internet account and couldn't think of anything else to put up.
Point being, I don't see a reason to have The Whole Internet Cookbook.
PS: recipedelights.com
Jim
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The only cooking I can do is to wait the 3 minutes for the boiling water to do its work. Even then, I sometimes forget all about it and end up with soggy noodles. :(
"But I trust in the people's capacity for reflection, rage and rebellion." -Oscar Olivera
As you all know there are millions of recipes out there, but try finding one single recipe for a decent curry, the kind you can get at your favorite indian restaurant, and I bet you can't.
Sure, most come close, but even playing indian new age music while sitting down to eat your creation just doesn't cut it!
So what's the secret?
In the good old days (pre-www) there was one great online cookbook of indian recipes. Anyone know if that still exists? -Magnus
Like this
Search Google for "recipe + whatever you fancy cooking"; skip the first couple of results (unless you like SPAM ;) and you'll find hundreds of recipes.
All somebody needs do to contribute is post their favourite recipes to their personal web and let the search engines do the rest.
You just don't see enough recipes along these lines.
Anyone tried this "cream of somyungai" that I keep hearing so much about?
True story.
I usually to reverse engineer (or hack) my food. And Just like any opensource software sometimes the hacked food is compatible with my stomach and sometimes it is not :(
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
One of my neat-ideas-I-never-got-around to was going to be a web site for cheap and easy instructions for good food. Cooking for college students. User submitted ideas.
Anything like this? I have cookbooks, but damn, that is some complicated shit. I want easy stuff. Like how to make ramen GOOD. What goes well with ramen besides the salt packet they give you? What about easy to make wraps or sandwiches?
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Ingredients:
Vodka (chilled)
Dry Vermouth (chilled)
Olives
Olive Juice
Martini Glass
Mixing
1. Add as much Vodka as you'd like to drink
2. Splash in some vermouth to taste
3. Splash in some olive juice, until you can't taste the vermouth anymore
4. Add an olive or two
5. Drink!
Optional Extras
1. If the ingredients are not already cold, you may pre-mix in a shaker full of ice, and then strain the liquid into your martini glass. Ice may be used directly if you don't mind diluting the vodka.
2. Vodka mixes well with everything. Try additional ingredients to make new and unique martinis.
...there's always Epicurious.
I've found many a tasty recipe on there, but then, I love cooking and don't mind buying some wacky ingredients or spending extra time whipping something up.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen the Wikibooks-Cookbook at http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook
First they sent the manufacturing jobs to the Third World
and I did nothing, because my job was not on the line.
Then they cut the management jobs
and I did nothing because I didn't like the management
Then they sent the help desk jobs overseas
and I didn't care because I'm a programmer.
So now they've come for my job, and there is no one left to fight for me because no one in the god damn company lives in the states anymore!
Is http://www.foodnetwork.com
(Search The, ah, Freakin Web)
... google for "recipes". My personal favorite is epicurious, tho I often have to tone down the expensive and/or hard to get ingredients.
I mean, really
Lots of these places let you submit your own recipes, many let you rate and comment on them. There isn't much interest in an internet-wide p2p schema of recipes because, well, it's not really something that's needed such a trading scheme before. Use a blog, paste the recipe in, google will pick it up in a couple days.
I'm not sure what the challenge or barrier is here.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
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Not that this wasn't entirely predictable.
The BBC has a very good food section that, in addition to having info on cooking shows and celebrity chefs, allows you to search its extensive collection of recipes - both from shows and submitted by readers. Also, they publish a magazine called Good Food from which (no doubt) many of these recipes are taken.
John
-- "...I'm a bad guy because I, well, I sing some rock-and-roll songs." M. Manson
Or, The Archive Formerly Known As SOAR.
http://www.recipesource.com/
I recommend the apple roast hadrosaur.
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i thought this was going to be about INTERNET COOKING like cooking remotely or using an overclocked pentium 4
The Ars Technica batchelor chow cookbook.
At some point, you have to cook, and the Internet should be a great place to find recipes
Forget cooking.
I personally find the internet (small-I by the way) a much greater help to find restaurants of all kinds, big or small, dear or cheap.
One of my favorite past-time is to roam the countryside trying to find unknown small restaurants that serve good home-made or mom-and-pop food, or perhaps unusual food of some kind, trying to stay clear away from well-known dining places, chains, fast food joints and other roach-coaches. The net is a great tool to find target restaurants to go visit in the week-end.
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Is there a Google for recipes?
Well, there's a Google hack for recipes that seems to work okay. You put in the ingredients that you have on hand and it tries to find recipes using those ingredients.
Oddly enough, I just saw this on someone's weblog earlier today. Synchronicity is a peculiar thing.
I use google to find recipes. Usually I generally know what to make, and use google to "guide" the details. The thing I've learned is to look at many recipes and perform a bit of informatics. Some ingredients tend to vary between recipes and others are always the same. Then you can tell which parts to change to alter the recipe in your own personal way. For example, look for waffle recipes online. Some have mostly egg whites or some have a very pancake like recipe. Also you can find out how to alter the recipe with new ingredients. Very useful, when you can immediately get 10 different recipes for the same thing!
-Sean
Google for Recipes -- speak of the devil...
rec.food.recipes @ google
Epicurious is, by far, the best site for recipes on the web. The best feature is its archive of recipes from a variety of publications going back many years.
The best recipe there is is your spice shelf and your tongue. Great cooking (as opposed to baking) comes from trying out new things, not being afraid to experiment, and knowing what effect your tools (ingredients) will have -- and this only comes with experience. Much like coding, actually.
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A great place to find recipes is searching rec.food.recipes using Google groups. I've always been able to find what I'm looking for. Just goto the group, search for what you want to make, and hey presto! Easy!
I need RFID readers in the kitchen which tie directly into my fridge-mounted, internet-connected, touch-screen, Xterminal, cookbook! ;-)
As much as RFID's make me nervous, I can see this as an inevitable commonplace in the future.
"terrorism" and "pedophilia" are the root passwords to the Constitution
Forget the recipes, enjoy the science behind cooking with Good Eats!
I have yet to introduce one of my geek friends to Alton Brown and they not fall in love with his cooking techniques and lessons.
If you knowing the why, you'll love this guy. And if you understand cooking... you don't need the bloody recipes, right?
AC
I hear there's a great recipe for Rhubarb Pie circulating on the gnutella networks.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
.... we can select a receipt of the net, click "order", have to food delivered to us and then enjoy it
:-]
Oh wait a minute I forgot my primay source of food and non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks....
Must get a life....
Anyone know the relevant URL?
Jaj
That's a standard Urban Legend, though it's more often a cookie recipe. Check out Snopes for the details.
And for those disinclined to click links, a summary:
What about http://www.RecipeSource.com They've got heaps!
Just plain old googling seems to work well for recipes, there are many, many recipe sites, many small personal sites with good recipes I just google for 'recipes for..' whatever I want to cook, and then surf through and bookmark the ones I want to use. Also its good to surf through different recipes and see which ones fit the ingredients you have. M
I took 7 years of food prep, but never got further for health reasons. Cooking full time is a very physical career. But I love to cook, and have a personal reputation to uphold. I have many cookbooks, but have found the WWW to be a great resource for tips, tricks, reciples, ethnic foods, etc. One day I WILL have a machine in my kitchen that will allow me to browse the Web, watch cooking shows, and run various food/shopping/recipe software. For giggles, I've included here a few links that I've found helpful. Yes, I'm a fan of the Food Network, and not ashamed to admit it. Alton Brown rocks!
Google Directory Links
Meals.Com
Food Network
There are existing cookbooks for Java, Perl, PHP, and a slew of other programming languages. I believe O'Reily is big on stuff like that.
If you're more into spicier things, there's always the Anarchist Cookbook. Talk about retro-BBS-style cajun cuisine there, eh? Nothing like wading through txt files on good ol' "Edit" back in the DOS days.
Wait, you mean like Food-cooking? Why? Pizza hut delivers and you can order online. Don't even have to talk to anyone on the phone!!! You can even have spicy wings, bread sticks, and a caffeinated beverage to boot. BAM! Another notch!!!
I don't know about `Cooking with the internet` as far as correct grammer but my first Athlon experience sure brought it close to reality! :-)
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http://www.recipesource.com/
This site only has a few recipies, but it is great for a laugh. It is kind of like a cartoon version of Good Eats from FoodTV, but with a more warped sense of humor. It is the only cooking show hosted by an appetizer.
www.8legged.com
Ars Technica put together a cookbook a while ago.... here it is. "The Ars Technica Cookbook of Bachelor Chow".
Get a life and laugh. Jesus.
Is there a Google for recipes. And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net?
Allrecipes.com, thousands of recipes, about 98% of them are free. Fantastic resource.
Thanks for googling first.
"Not all of you live on ramen and coffee."
Haven't been outsourced, have you?
Also, Google works pretty well if you know what you're looking for.
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No-one has said it yet so...
1) Make an open-source cookbook
2) ???
3) Profit!
A friend of mine has put up a brilliant homepage about how to cook with your kitchen invaded. That is, invaded by other students who use the same kitchen. :) Great!
I came up with this tag first!
/fredu
Recipes can't be patented, and the data of a list of ingredients and a procedure can't be copyrighted.
That means that if someone wrote a proper web-crawling recipe snarfer that stored the recipes in a database (without stealing the formatting or stealing a particular collection), it should be intellectual property free and fully public domain!
Definitely a good weekend hacker challenge....
Braddock Gaskill
Ingredients:
Vodka (chilled)
Dry Vermouth (chilled)
Flashlight.
Martini Glass.
Olive.
Toothpick or Skewer.
Step 1: Pour Vodka into Martini Glass.
Step 2: Place Bottle of Vermouth in front of Martini Glass.
Step 3: Shine flashlight through Vermouth towards Martini glass.
Step 4: Put away flashlight and Vermouth bottle.
Step 5: Skewer Olive. Place in glass.
Done! =)
http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001404.shtml
Dude, where's my packet?
I've used UCBerkeley's Searchable Online Archive of Recipes for years. Its biggest shortcoming is a lack of ingredient searches, but they've integrated Google into the search for full text search, which is good enough, if a bit clumsy.
Here's the skinny from their About Us page:
While RecipeSource may be one of the newest recipe sites on the Internet, we're also one of the oldest. Our collection was started in 1993 by Jennifer Snider when she discovered the wonders of Usenet newsgroups & Internet mailing lists as a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She started saving recipes posted to those sources and soon amassed thousands of recipes. When her friends found out about the collection, we encouraged her to put them on the web, and she agreed, provided we helped her. After several months of hard work, the recipes first appeared on the web in 1995 as SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes. From our start with around 10,000 recipes we've grown the collection to 7 times that size, and had our pages accessed millions of times from around the world. Thanks to our popularity, we've outgrown our original home, so we've moved the collection here to RecipeSource.com, where we hope it will continue to grow, while providing better response time and a better search engine than our old site.
not the same story, mod down parent
It was meant to be funny.
Of course the best recipes from the 70's can be found Here. Bon Appatit!
NMG
Every week I make a grocery list from the menus on purely dairy. Not only are the recipes good and tasty, but they have been prepared by a dietician to be properly balanced and all that goodness.
I found using google to find recipes for unusual things very frustrating.
For example, I wanted to try something new, so I googled Garlic Ice Cream. Unfortunately, Every site on the first 5 pages has one of exactly two recipes, neither of which is very good. Because they all copied off each other, google's results are useless in that case.
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
Here's a pretty good site - there's some yummy stuff here:
http://www.soulfoodcookbook.com
.. would be a good way to store recipes. Makes it even easier to contribute. Some kind of parser should parse them as HTML.
I find Carnegie Mellon's Online Recipe Archive to be a wonderful resource.
I just started working on my own recipe database program. I started with a perl/mysql/cgi interface and now I'm working on a qt program to interface said database.
r ecipezaar.com// /www.foodtv.com/
Granted all my recipes are family recipes and it's nowhere near ready for mass consumption but there are recipes everywhere. allrecipes.com has already been mentioned but there are some other good sites:
http://www.recipesource.com/
http://www.
http://eat.epicurious.com/
http:
Of course if you are looking for something google can be your best resource.
Hopefully I will eventually have something that I feel is good enough to release. While I am using mysql, since I am using dbi (for the perl end) and qt for the c++ end it should be able to use any database that these support with just a recompile. Let me know if there is really an interest in this and I could try and release something soon. I'd give my web site but it's on my cablemodem which I'm not supposed to run a server off of.
People here know what cooking is? I figured we all lived off cereal, chinese takeout and pizza! Hmmm, I might have to try one of these "recipe" things and see what happens. Maybe I can actually use that large appliance in the kitchen my friends call a "stove." It's got a bunch of buttons and knobs on it, lets see what it does....
PG has several cookbooks available.
http://www.gutenberg.net
Thogh finding ingredients for some of them may be a bit hard. Stores just don't seem to want to stock pigs heads any more...
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They wing-it...
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Here's a great site:
Fat Free and Vegetarian
Now just wash 'em down with the aforementioned Dirty Martini, and you're all set!
How about you just ask for a site which tells people how to properly use Google to find what they need ?
This was about as easy as finding porn...
.. is a Google API and here's how it works:
as the subject, an excellent resource.
So, it may not be the Google of Cooking, But it still has great recipies.
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For cooking interested types I highly recommend Cooks magazine (illustrated?) it is very down to earth and realistic. (It is run by chris Kimbel of pbs fame, americas test kitchen) Some cooking magazines are so ridiculously pretentious that they have to find at least one ingredient for every recipe that we can't find easily. Look at food and wine, for example. Geez and the recipes aren't even that good. Kimbel's crew will test down to earth stuff, like kraft cheese and compare it to things you get in the store. There website americastestkitchen.com is also very useful, and their recipes are generally good unpretentious fair.
-Sean
But last year, after a friend of mine introduced me to the BBC produced sci-fi comedy show Red Dwarf (I'm an American living in Southern California), I just had to find out what this "curry" and "vindaloo" stuff that the main character, Dave Lister, seemed so obsessed with was.
After a few visits to local Indian restaurants got me addicted to the stuff, I found myself trying numerous recipes from Death by Curry and having a ball.
Is this a common thing to happen to Dwarf fans? Almost all my (admittedly American) friends quite simply refuse to accept the notion that I enjoy curries... Especially once they've seen and smelled them in person. But I love em' personally.
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Drop $15 bucks on a copy of The New Basics Cookbook (including how to equip your kitchen, cooking glossary etc.) Browse through it. Drool. Pick one of its wonderful recipes. Unplug. Put on your favorite CD, loud.
Then spend an hour in the kitchen indulging your programmer process-queen, only this time you're rewarding your senses instead of your mind. For geeks who've never cooked, I promise you it can be a revelation. It's like coding - you plan, assemble, research, learn, follow instructions, improvise, iterate, performance-tune, test, and launch. Only "launch" = "eat something so delicious you'd never believe you were capable of making it yourself".
http://eat.epicurious.com/ They have a great selection of recipes. They break it down to ingrediants, prperation time and even breakfast/lunch/dinner.
"Not all of you live on ramen and coffee. At some point, you have to cook"
ramen and coffee for life
Perhaps someone should create one as a wiki. That way improvement can be added all the time by anyone.
This is a good website for recipies. It is from a UK supermarket.
Slightly off topic, but there is a report that Alton Brown (who once sat for a slashdot interview) will be hosting a new version of Iron Chef.
Did you actually read the page linked to?
2 access points, one wireless card, 21" CRT and and array of insanely bright blue LEDs. I'll be done in a couple of hours.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
This, of course, is derived from Winston Churchill's martini.
-Sean
Uhm, yeah. It's called Google. Last time I checked, they didn't put up a fuss when I tried typing "recipes". Try looking up some recipes on Google. I'm sure you'll find recipes.
why is this story under biotech? *boggle*
They now have a search engine that lets you put in ingredients you want in a particular recipe (or ingredients you DON'T want/have). When you have the hankerin for some cookies and all you have is sugar and peanut butter - allrecipes to the rescue.
Am I the only one that read the headline ("Cooking with the Internet") and thought "great, another story about IP enabled microwaves and refirdgerators"? :)
no comment
I've been trying to find open plans for things like sheds and playground sets. It's bad enough that companies charge so much for swing set and slide hardware but 50 bucks for the plans? That's highway robbery.
Anyway, it would be nice to be able to do a google search for plans of any kind and not have hundreds of sites returned that want to sell you crappy plans.
And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net. Because any time any good geeks go searching for recipes (googling for 'beans AND toast') we inevitably stumble across a picture of Nigella Lawson and spend the whole evening transfixed gazing at the monitor.
I always liked S.O.A.R. (searchable online archive of recipes) but they've seen changed to recipe source im pretty sure they use to be the largest, and part of berkley.edu
anyway, they still have a large collection of pretty good recipes
I've always been fond of using Recipe Source. Rather extensive listing, and you can submit your own recipe. The only problem is there is quite a bit of redundancy.
Is there a Google for recipes?
Yes, Google can find more than just porn...
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recipes and more
Cook's Illustrated
They'll cook 50 pounds of tuna in order to perfect the recipe for a perfectly seared crust. Hell, look at one of their head chefs
Then I make my rounds to epicurious and foodtv
Why do I never have mod points when I need them? Mod this up someone. Recipesource is teh kick ass.
USENET
All your recipes are belong to us!
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
I usually just Google for whatever I want. Like this morning, I fired up Firefox, and typed "rigatoni alla carbonara" into the Google search box, and I found a recipe I liked the sound of. Granted, I ended up going with a Food Network recipe (Rachael Ray, no less) but the point is that I managed to see several variations, including some from some private blogs.
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
You can't go wrong with allrecipes.com. I have no affiliation with them other than that I use it whenever I need a recipe. Another good feature, a la amazon.com style, is the peer reviews that accompany each recipe. The site is so good I haven't even tried looking anywhere else.
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Food Network...Food TV Something like 25,000 recipes. I've tried a few of them, really nice.
-Vic
Posting a question that can easily be answered in a simple google search is not proper netiquette.
Someone should fire Cliff for allowing this!
AC
PS Epicurious is a personal favorite.
Here's the summary of these links below:
http://www.cookbook.com/
http://www.allrecipes.com/
http://www.foodnetwork.com/
http://eat.epicurious.com/
http://recipedelights.com/index6271m.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/
http://www.recipesource.com/
http://www.meals.com/Index/Index.aspx?Theme=0
http://www.altonbrown.com/
BTW I did this for me so I can look them up easier! Thanks for the links everyone.
I personally love it for their great Mediterranean recipes. Also the reviewing system is great so you can see actual chefs who have tried it and what they think about it before you take the plunge.
A bit of a plug here, but still a good resource nonetheless...
Ars Bachelor Chow!: It's a 50+ page book chock full of great (and a few not-so-great) recipes for geek bachelors. Hey, it's probably better than the bachelor chow advertised on Futurama... ^_^
http://www.sanjeevkapoor.com/
http://www.tarladalal.com/
http://www.recipesource.com
http://www.1worldrecipes.com/
I think I ended up using one from recipesource, but, as I usually do with recipes I find on the internet, adjusted it a bit, taking some ideas from the other recipes I found.
Another blatant plug: I started a recipe wiki for my Orkut Cajun Food community.
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And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net?
Like this?
You can always type the contents of your fridge into Google and get a list of recipes.
10-100
to read all the comments. Did anybody suggest this?
What?
Starting back around 1985 or so, there was already a busy culture of recipe trading on the "alt.gourmand" USENET newsgroup. The recipes were distributed in troff format and they even had their own custom troff macro package for recipe formatting, and you could get the full collection of recipes, generate a permuted index, and print out the whole shebang. The cookbook filled a 2.5" D-Ring binder pretty completely. Do a search for "USENET Cookbook" on Google and you can find some websites that still carry the collection of recipes.
Go to http://www.cook-books.com/dbaccess.htm & register (free - no spam) for access to the database used by the publisher of those community/club/church/hometown cookbooks. Typically, any search yields dozens of variations on a single recipe.
Let me try a chicken curry -
:D
:D.
First off, you need a lot of different spices. This one assumes you use fresh spices, as opposed to pre-packaged ones.
Spices you need -
few pieces cardamom,
Cloves,
cinnamon,
dry rose leaves(very little)
bay leaves (more than previous)
poppy seeds
aniseed (sombu)
mint leaves
and a lot of other spices you probably can't get
Other ingredients -
Coconut milk (1/2 can)
curds (1 cup)
coriander seed powder (dhania powder) 2-3 tbsps
chilli powder
tomatoes
potatoes
green chillies (NOT jalapenos, thai chillies perhaps)
red chillies
lotsa onions
one fresh chicken, de-skinned, cut into pieces.
oil, salt.
Method -
Fry all spices in oil. Preferably sunflower oil or gingelly oil.
Once they are reasonably fried, add red chilies and fry some more.
Add onions and fry till golden.
Add tomatoes and green chillies and fry.
Once tomatoes are squishy, add the chilli powder and coriander seed powder. Both are to taste. So you might need a few iterations to get it to your taste.
Fry some more.
Add chicken and fry it well. Make sure all the spices are properly mixed with other ingredients.
Now once it is all fried well, add the buttermilk/yoghurt and coconut milk and as much water as you want to get desired consistency (some like it watery).
Boil this in a pressure cooker for say 10 mins. Of course the whole operation could have started off in one of those huge pressure cookers
Open, add salt, taste.
Add any other ingredients you think are lacking.
Magic - since this is a closed-loop process, you can add
a) Rice powder - if too spicy, sour etc.
b) more chilli powder if too bland
c) more coriander powder if too little 'spice'
Make sure you taste it AFTER you add the salt, and don't add too much salt.
Make sure you boil the whole thing well after any corrections.
Add fresh coriander leaves, chopped, at the end. Also add some powdered asafoetida.
I've not given the amounts, cos I basically cook approximately, tasting at each stage.
Have fun!!
All bow to his Noodliness!! His Noodle Appendage has touched me!
would suggest you give up the notion of recipes. Cooking is about ingredients, or to quote a famous chef, "85 percent of cooking is shopping."
Look, if you go to a top line culinary school, you'll learn two things: ingredients and technique. They don't teach recipes. Once you've learned what's taught, you go shopping. Or make a reservation here
Victorian classics:
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management
Moxon's English Housewifery Exemplified
Two interesting early vegetarian cook-books:
The Healthy Life Cook-Book
The Reform Cookery Book
Of historical interest:
The Form Of Cury -- in Middle English.
This is just a sample -- there are many more (search Gutenberg.net for 'cook' or 'cookery').
-- Help Digitise the Public Domain at DP.
"Damn! My chicken sufflet has been slashdotted again. Now I'll have to wait until 3am to eat it."
Table-ized A.I.
"What's for dinner?": you tell it what ingredients you have, what ingredients to exclude, and it'll tell you what you can make. Handy if you're trying to cook something with what you have and don't have time to go to the store or somesuch.
Once I found this interesting P2P service, Snackster.net, which claims to be a recipe sharing network. I tried this once, but at the time it didn't work at all. Does anyone have any experience about this service?
I know of one internet community cookbook ... based on the well known internet community: Craigslist.org.
Take a look here: http://www.craigslistfoundation.org/cookbookfaq.ht ml
This is a surprise to me. Remember the prediction (from an IBM exec IIRC) that the only reason he could imagine for a home PC is maybe for the wife to store her recipes on ;-)
Ecce Europa - Web Design for Business
Cooking is now Biotechnology! Ee-gods, is that funny.
2 Jumbo Eggs
2 Tablespoons Milk ( or water )
Salt/Pepper as you see fit
12 small jalepeno pepper slices ( the ones in the jar are fine )
2 Tablespoons of HOT salsa
Cheese of your choice and amount
3 Pieces of crispy bacon, crumbled up
Mix eggs, milk or water, salt and pepper in bowl. Whip the hell out of them so they are light and fluffy.
Cook them...high heat, do not scramble them up though. Just wait until layers form and pull the layers around a bit. It looks like ribbons when you are doing it right.
About halfway through, add in all of the other crap. You can do it omelette style or just go wild and throw the stuff in.
Eat them. I stronly suggest a glass of milk and buttered toast to ease the slight burning sensation. You know you did it right when a fine layer of sweat breaks out on your head.
Enjoy!
Hi there - long time listener, first time caller. I like to cook a lot, and you guys hit a lot of the big ones so far. I would like to throw in www.chef2chef.net into the ring of great recipe sites. I am the biggest nerd when it comes to food, and I like C2C - there are some some cool recipes (they have a recipe club too) and cool forums like these ones here. But recipes is the big draw for me - like a quarter million or so! I also like epicurious.com - you know that they have been tested many times. My $0.02 Thanks!
I hear, Nigella Bites! Ouch !!
My wife started a French cooking website with about 70 recipes on it already, all of which she has written herself based on her experiences growing up in France and living in the south pacific.
I think that writing a recipe section for a Gothic website has to definately be the low point of my programming career.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
It's a blast if you're throwing a quick party... a little messy though.
rec.food.recipes
rec.food
Lazy asses.
Try foodgeeks.com
Funny this comes up. Yesterday I was looking for a chicken fajita recipe and the entire first page of google was full of bogus results. You know, pages with titles that say "chicken fajita recipe" but that are those "global search engine!" pages or some page wanting you to pay to see the recipe.
Is google smart enough to figure out that what it's crawling isn't actually accessible to everyone else?
I believe someone mentioned on here in the past that they were working on a free cookbook.... I searched for the name of the person I was talking to (Matt Balmer), found a link from wikibooks to:K .txt, The Open Source Cookbook: Fuel For Geeks.
http://www.randomdata.net/osc/downloads/OSCOOKBOO
Seems kinda small, but it also seems to have quite a few recipes. Enjoy.
-DrkShadow
1. Place pan directly on CPU.
2. Place article about SCO on hard drive.
3. Post URL of article to Slashdot
4. Let cook for 15-20 minutes
5. Serve and eat!
*Use article about Gnome vs. KDE for higher altitudes
As a start I use the Google Images Search by entering the main ingredient(s) as the search words and look at images it finds. I can then see what LOOKS delicious and proceed to search for the recipe from there on and looking at recipe sites. Don't forget Usenet feedback on recipes too.
Alexandre PUKALL published a free list of more than 10 thousand recipes about a decade ago. It's available in various forms on the Net. My take on it is an easy to search windows help file (.chm) (use xchm in Linux), but take it easy with my server as it's 7Mb (and it's all in French).
Non-Linux Penguins ?
In the end the recipe doesn't much matter, because I'm always just cooking for myself and I tend to put a lot of the same things in anything I make. Mostly I look to get a general idea of how long it will take to be 'done'.
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
These have been out on the net since before it was the 'net. ftp.digital.com's nroff recipe collection. Surprised no old fart's picked this up. A lot of these things are really good. I'm a cook myself.
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/recipes
How come Homer and Krusty look like clones?
In the initial Simpsons script drafts, one of the running themes was going to be that Bart idolized Krusty instead of his father, Krusty giving him the nurturing he needed through TV. Pretty much how it ended up, although off camera we find the Krusty is much worse than Homer has ever been. Anyways, I think this is the reason they were designed to look very similar. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
"Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
This is something I've been running into all over the place. I keep waiting for a decent recipe site but usually have to dig around too much and they are so horribly organized that I figure it's easier just to open up my cookbook. Thanks to original poster.
I had only two things to say to those who will start an open recipe site. First: there is already pretty cool things done about that like a kind of recipe manager, with a pretty cool database on food nutrient (sadly, under console). There must be much of those things. Second, keep in mind to organise the whole thing to get the possibility of having a search for vegan, vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, neo-vegetarian, and the sub-kind of not-so-hippie. They are about the last person to watch food for their health.
It's far better to understand ingredients and make your own dishes to suit your fancy any given day. Know your spices, meats, cheeses, veggies, fruits, etc. and the only way to do this is try them.
I'm a hacker when it comes to cooking and frankly what comes out (after a few years now) is great.
My favorite recipe site is this one. Petsorfood.com
They have a limited selection, but its the best damn bourguignon I've ever had. Plus the ingredients are available for purchase on the site!
What signature defines me as a person?
Try Google Recipe Search, it has Amazingly Powerful Parameters!
I just use Google Groups to rec.food.recipes when I'm looking for something different. It's turned up many good recipes, and my wife rates it A+!
Not all of you live on ramen and coffee
You're RIGHT, some of us live off ramen, coffee and beer.
The best spot on the web is chef2chef.net. The forums there are populated by both food lovers and professional chefs. Everybody interacts and has a great time, plus exchanges an immense amount of information. You should go!
The TastyWiki is a Wiki recipe site.
Evan Prodromou | evan@prodromou.name | http://evan.prodromou.name/
The problem with recipes and such is that tastes vary so much, how do you know what one person thinks is just the shit in food won't taste horrific to you? I think that's why you have family cookbooks and such.
My college roommates and I lived together for a year and we know what each other likes. Thus, we assembed an online beer/pub/recipe site so we can continue to share with each other what we consider to be good. Since we know each other's tastes, we're almost sure to like everything on there between us.
Global recipe books are just too broad to appeal and make it easy to pick out winners.
Blog,Twitter
...in honor of Wikipedia, but apparently Lycos already thought of it.
I'm a huge fan of cooks.com All the stuff i've gotten from them has come out great.
I use the regular google interface to find recipes all the time... try Green Chili Stew, or Southern Cornbread, etc. you'll get links to most of the websites listed so far plus a few "outliers" that can really be the "better" recipe.
If you like or want to try some Soul Food recipes I've got plenty on my site at http://www.soulfoodcookbook.com
There are lots of recipes at Everything2, some of which are listed at the cookery node.
The best way to use Google is to explore. Try stuff! Like if you're reading a recipe for gumbo, and it calls for File (accented E, Rob!), don't bother people with lame questions like, "What's File?". Google for it! You'll be amazed at what you find.
Brian states in the introduction:
Brian took great care in moderating the group. All units of measure were handled in a way that allowed their conversion between imperial and metric units; Brian also tried to avoid tainting the collection with copyrighted material. The use of the troff macros resulted in recipes, that even today, appear very nice when typeset.In 1993 I converted the Cookbook into a Windows Help file. The conversion was done from the original unformated recipe troff texts, in order to properly translate all character codes, create a list of search keys, and hieararchical content tables. I downloaded the file from its web page, and it still works.
Diomidis Spinellis - #include "/dev/tty"
...I imagined someone who hacked up a way to use the heat from a rack of servers to cook at the ISP they work at.
I've been using Cooks Recipes. The webmaster, Hope Pryor, has a great collection of recipes, and just good overall easy-to-follow directions. Great for beginners to seasoned pros. Wonderful site.
It would be cool if I could have a machine where I could move "flavor sliders" and have it make a sample for me to taste, and then if I liked it I could use the recipe that the flavor sliders generated.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
Cooking ramen noodles in old coffee !!!
(What the hey, it's worth a try.)
I am suprised StarBucks hasn't cashed in on this one...
"Not all of you live on ramen and coffee. "
You forgot (in no particlar order)
1) Jolt
2) Bawls
3) Montain Dew
4) Pizza
5) Chinese Take out
I don't know about the rest of you, but when it comes to cooking I'd rather be coding. But I still enjoy a good meal between caffeine binges.
The worst part of cooking for me is working out what to cook, then having to go to the supermarket and dig around for the right ingredients.
Luckily, my local supermarket offers a solution... they have an on-line shopping website. This in itself isn't anything original, but they offer a plethora of recipes: when you've found the one you want, it will add all the required ingredients to your cart... the goods arrive at your doorstep within 3 hours.
A perfect solution for any lazy coders who enjoy a good meal.
Note that I'm in New Zealand, but I'm sure such sites are available elsewhere.
I once formated an ingredient list in pseudo XML as a joke. That got me thinking. Is there an XML cooking spec? Or some cooking programming language?
It should be fairly easy to design, and it would probably be nice to have cooking instructions standardized.
Not any fancy-pants API or beta/lab thing. I just type some ingredients into the main search engine and pick the recipes out of the results.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
It works! I find stuff there all the time. foodnetwork.com is another good one, and there are plenty more.
Well, it's not free, but it's worth the money.
Cook's Illustrated selects recipes and exhaustively tests variations to come up with the easiest or best tasting recipe. They investigate why certain varieties of potatoes are good in different recipes, for instance. They'll explain why you should soak fries in ice water before frying them. They'll explain the tricks in getting the meringue right.
If you want recipes with the best results for the effort or you want to learn the underlying theory, Cook's is great. (They also have a PBS show called America's Test Kitchen.)
The article links the the Wikipedia list of recipes but not to the Wikibooks cookbook.. There is not much there at the moment but as soon as people start dropping by and adding a recipe or two it should grow.
I don't get it.
I routinely use Google as the first place to look for recipes when I want to cook something, and it's always been the last place, since I've never been disappointed.
Why do people insist on looking for tools they already have in their hand?
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Then there are Jamie Oliver's recipies - simple to prepare, tasty, and usually really fast. The guy is a great chef, and the recipies are fantastic.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Foodtv.com (BAM!)
My wife doesn't listen to me either...
it's called Cookin' With Google you enter in what items you have laying around your fridge and perhaps which type of cuisine you are interested in and it pulls up recipes on the web based upone the ingrediants you have (using a nifty google API "hack")...
*Shrug*
e.
Build Your Own PVR/HTPC news, reviews, &
Newsgroups is a good suggestion. Along those lines, also check out mailing lists. I'm on several (mostly for bread recipes) and the vast majority are hosted by groups.yahoo.com. In particular, check out:e /
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-epicur
When you get tired of cooking, check out:
http://chefmoz.org/
-Rich
Almost forgot! Thanks!
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http://www.allrecipies.com/ Thousands of recipies , very well organized , very easy to find what you are looking for .
-- TRUST ME! I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!
go here they have great recipes well worth paying for
here
1. Get a flask of whiskey
2. Get a corn fed steak
3. Feed corn fed steak to the dog and keep the whiskey.
http://saveie6.com/
Besides Minix, flamewars and excellent CS books, Andrew Tanenbaum has also written a cookbook:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/how_to_prep.pdf
THE VESPER MARTINI
by Ian Fleming
3 ounces of Gordon's gin
1 ounces of Smirnoff Blue Label vodka
a half ounce of Kina Lillet aperitif
Shake in a cocktail shaker until very cold
Pour into a champagne goblet and add a large thin slice of lemon peel.
Oh please.
Just Google 'recipes'.
Senor, you are the lamest ever.
While you're out there on the information highway, see if you can pick up any tips on how you tie your shoelaces. I think you need it.
If the recipe itself needs to be free as in speech, then you're right, there aren't that many open cookbooks. However, a number of food-type sites provide recipes for free. Food Network has a variety of recipes featured on their shows (including a couple of free beer recipes).
Anyone here interested into veganism and also interested into contributing to a Wiki with information and recipes? I haven't set anything up yet, but i'll join this effort if it already exists and would also like to start one!
WE DON'T NEED NO BLOG CONTROL.
You can find some recipes using exactly what you have, so you don't have to go to kmart.
www.cookingbynumbers.com
It won't be long before you don't cast a shadow either.
For folks on a diet, lowcarbcooking.org is a good resource, with recipes in many different categories.
(disclaimer: I helped build the site)
Easy...I just type in the name of whatever dish I feel like and don't know how to cook yet into google, press enter and viola.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
There are some large recipe collections online, but the quality of their recipes varies a lot. No surprise, after all they have been assembled from thousands of authors.
I have tried quite a few recipes from different places on the Net, and some of them have really wrong amounts of ingredients, and other flaws.
However, if you're serious about cooking, you'll learn about certain things that are always the same, you'll make less errors and get a feeling for what you may like when it comes to recipes.
As with so many things - just do it.
the CyberCook has been doing this since 97.
After making 3 recipes from a F&W magazine that were better than any I've followed before, we bought a subscription. Our record continues towards perfection - every recipe is not just good, it's a whole new experience worth remembering, and doing again. You can get each recipe online and each comes with a wine recommendation, which I consider almost critical.
I've tried epicurious a number of times, and it just seems to be weird combos of food, that are hit or miss, best so far are goat cheese stuffed turkey burgers, but everything else has been forgetable.
Look at Bawarchi.
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." - Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
Whatever you are cooking it always tastes better if you joke around a little
Some very nice recipies there, and a number of versions of some of the more popular ones.
The archive at http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/recipes/ has about 700 recipes others may have more.
Each recipe has a rating for difficulty, time and precision needed.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
The catalog for living.
features a nice recipe finder.
If you want to learn how to cook, the eGullet Culinary Institute provides free online courses for cooking here:
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http://forums.egullet.com/index.php?showforum=1
These are courses composed by the eGullet.com membership, many of whom are culinary professionals and highly accomplished ameteur cooks. Many of the courses have amazing accompanying digital photos as well.
The site has been nominated for a James Beard Award and has been shortlisted for the GlenFiddich Food and Wine Awards in the UK, and has been featured in many international newspapers and magazines, including TIME.
Disclaimer: I am the founder of said website, so your mileage may vary.
My wife purchased books from http://www.allrecipes.com/
blatant self promo:
I should be opening http://01recipes.com soon.
Free Web based FTP
But try FoodTV. They pretty much have everything, and they're free.
Jack Valenti and Orrin Hatch will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Chowhounds (http://www.chowhound.com/main.html) is like slashdot for food freaks. Recipe questions, ingredient searches, restaurant questions, whatever. They will take care of you.
The geek's answer to baking. Jump all the ingredients in, and let it churn for 3 hours. Also works very good for making dough for such things as Pizza. I've used this site for bread machine recipes.
http://www.breadworld.com/search/index.asp
Easiest way I can find. Just google for a recipe. I typically type in the top 3 or 4 ingredients I want to cook around and type the word "recipe" afterwords. Or type in the dish and the word "recipe" after it. Pulls it up in the first page or two every time.
There's only one issue with using google for recipe searching -- all the NASTY HORRIBLE stupid search-sites masquerading as recipe resources.
The Open Source Cookbook
Good discussion in there.
.. are allrecipes.com and copykat.com Copykat has recipes that copy your favorite restaurant recipes.
---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"
Remember when looking for baking recipes to have cookies ON on your browser
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
...then there's 'Cookin with Google' which uses Google's API to give you recipies based on ingredents you choose. (it's slick). there's also Top Secret Recipies where you can learn about DIY versions of all your favorite trademarked foodstuffs (like Twinkie(R) filling and Oreos)
Be careful! Bears shouldn't consume large furry dogs.
Is
1) Open Sauce Cooking
2) A decent recipe application for Linux. We've been waiting 20 years for the killer app for mom's recipes, now is the time.
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
cat
For example, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=5724251&sid=6
Mmmmmm..... fun food that is actually good for you! Oh, and before any of you Atkins types go all freaky on me....try reading up on the Atkins diet and why it works. By strict biology it works fine, but touch a carb, hell breathe heavy in the presence of a cracker - and you start dropping plague on your arteries like pidgeon droppings on a statue.
Sera
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
dude: have you tried <URL>forums.egullet.com</URL>?o wforum=108</URL> the eGullet Culinary Institute. it's a free, detailed online cooking course, with about 40 topics so far.
you can ask any question and receive informed responses. it's a great board.
also try:
<URL>http://forums.egullet.com/index.php?sh
good luck!
there is a german cooking forum. it's not quite full yet, but i think it's worth a look for german readers.
'nuff said.
http://www.recipezaar.com/
and rec.food.recipes
All recipies are published royalty free and unencumbered. Any submissions most welcome.
You can download free linux software to run a pizza bar from this site as well. (but that is incidental)
http://www.epicurious.com/
Epicurious is another source. Not my favorite but they have some good information and recipes.
I do some of my best hacking in the kitchen. I taste something somewhere, imagine how to improve it, dream up what should go in it, go buy the stuff, and hack away. I have it on good authority (a wife of good enough standing that she doesn't feel like she needs to lie to me anymore) that the results are excellent. Recipes are good for study material. But I trust the recipes written by the cooks about as much as a do the user manuals written by the programmers; not a lot. The only paper allowed in my kitchen is towels.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
No no no, what the internet really needs is more free porn, and none of that fake link crap; I want instant access to sick and twisted porn to fulfill my most malicious of desires...and I don't want to have to give my credit card or even email address to get it.
This sig was generated by a barrel of trained kittens for SeXy_Red (550409).
http://www.bitchmakemeasandwich.com/
Do the following search on Google: bitch make me a sandwich Then press, "I'm feeling lucky" :-)
http://www.penzeysspices.com/
Look no further.
Try their vietnamese cinnamon... Makes the best oatmeal cookies and carrot cake ever.
Just add spam to make it taste more like the internet!
I got my first apartment back in the fall of 1998. I decided to cook my first official bachelor meal. I make the following query: "Peanut Soup Recipe" and found a lot of great recipes! I don't know why peanut soup rose to the top of my list, but it did, and it's one of my favorites to this very day.
Just ask Google
Engineering is the art of compromise.
If we think we have all the spices, we then see if we have the other ingredients. If we think we have everything, we try to decide how it should be prepared.
We then run the plan. We taste it along the way to ensure what we expect to happen is actually happening. If we need to (and we are able to), we make changes along the way.
When the cooking is done, we put it in front of the other family members for a quality taste test. If it passes (and it normally does), dinner is served. If not, we head out for a shrink wrapped meal.
Innerweb
Freud might say that Intelligent Design is religion's ID.
There's no need for a single open cookbook because finding recipes for anything you want is so easy, trivial in fact.
Build up a library of working routines:
stirfry_wok_oliveoil(meat, mass, temperature)
Build up your toolbox (an XBox vs a good grill?) and play...
Cooking is just hacking with food...
"Fear is the rootkit of democracy.." Blarkon
Can you copyright a recipe? I don't think so, although I believe that collections of them (cookbooks) can be copyrighted.
try http://foodinaminute.co.nz there a 1 minute advertorial every night before the 6pm news, highlighting a recipe... some of it look alright ! mmm.. hungry now !
this is not a flawless plan.. this is inspiration
BBC web site. Type in whatever you have in the fridge, and it gives you matching recipes. :-)
he could go out and buy some more ingredients. Nah, that's just crazy talk...
Now if everyone just started to comply with internationally agreed upon standards (metric units) I wouldn't get the same uneasy feeling I have when receiving a Word-attachment whenever I read an American/English recipe on the net. It's time for a W3C validator for recipes!
This restricts you pretty much to lichens, leaf mold, and deep-sea jellyfish.
Just the way nature INTENDED us to eat.
--
Sal
Writings: saltation.blogspot.com
Wravings: go-blog-go.blogspot.com
you can add to it, it's free, and they have over 1 million recipes online. Another interesting fact is they have a neat way of doing searches. You can search for a particular recipe OR you can simply type in the shit you have like "Chicken, onions, cheese" and it will come up with all relevant recipes for you. Site needs a major redesign but hey.. it's a worthy tool
-=Redir
Wasn't this a thread at some point? Like a REALLY old one? I haven't spent much time on the forums lately but I seem to recall at least two threads on "geek food" when I was still active.
Kruzar
+++ATH0
I love beef and poultry and feel like crap when I don't get some animal protein into me at some point in the week.
Yes, I eat nuts, and beans, and steamed rice. I even eat roasted soybeans (delicious, but cause massive amounts of gas). They don't help, there's still something missing. Even if I add cheese it doesn't quite work out.
And now for something completely different: Why don't vegans eat honey? What is the justification?
+++ATH0
ENCYCLOPIZZA -- Guide to Creating Great Pizza and Pizzerias
has an insane amount of information on pizza. Check out the dough making foumulas.
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Doh!
You might want to check out BigOven.com, a brand new recipe archive and sharing system. You can post new recipes to the server, which already has a highly searchable database of over 150,000 recipes, send your own XML recipes to other BigOven users, get nutritional content, drag and drop recipes onto grocery lists and shopping calendars, rate recipes, see comments from other users and more. bigoven.com
Basically, it is a round piece of metal with holes in it, and a handle on the side. You stick it under your pot to keep the bottom from getting so much warmer than the rest of the pot. Works great on both gas and electric. It's about 1/2" thick, and not expensive, unfortunately, I don't know its real name.
Peking Duck requires a duck with its head still attached. First, it is inflated with a bicycle pump or other object, separating the skin from the carcass.
Sounds like fun.
Decided about 1 year ago to create a web site for receipes where you chose one or many ingredients you want in your receipe (ex: tomato beef curry) and you will get all the receipes that have those three ingredients. The unfortunate probleme is I decided to do it in quebecois (french :-)
So from what I can see, there is a lot of websites out there. Is this the new way of googling? Instead of spending 10 minutes on Google, just write a /. story in 2 minutes and come back the next day with answers?
Write boring code, not shiny code!
Nowhere in that poorly-thought-out article (sorry, but it's a spade) is there any justification for the idea that bees are somehow harmed by the harvesting of honey from their hives. Far, FAR more than is necessary for them to survive is made even under natural conditions.
Cow's milk I can understand (except in the case of "organic" milk), since in many cases the conditions in which the cows are kept are inhumane, and using rBGH causes their udders to often become constantly infected.
But simply "it comes from animals" doesn't work when the vegan argument is one from "living peacefully." Beekeeping is an entirely peaceful profession.
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There's a pretty good recipe for a roast pork dish on the Once upon a time in Mexico DVD. Look in the bonus material under 10 minute cooking school.
There's no shame in being a pariah. -Marge Simpson
The BBCi food section is most comprehensive - they try to include most of the recipies shown on their TV cookery programs, as well as other free sources.
They also have a useful search facility, so you can, for example, look for a fancier recipie to use up some of those packets of ramen.
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
obsess over cooking and ingredients. In a couple of months, you'll be cooking up things like Etheopian Injera, Indian Naan, Thai green curry, crepes, orange beef, hand made pasta and everything else you ever wanted to cook. The downside is you'll be in the kitchen 24/7. Cooking isn't hard and America is slowly maturing in terms of food diversity. Most people are pretty pathetic when it comes to techniques, but once you know the major techniques of each cuisine, you can whip up a gourmet meal in 30 minutes.
I found some good soup recipes, allegedly decyphered from soups made by the real Soup Nazi guy who inspired the Seinfeld character, at
www.topsecretrecipes.com
my favorite is the Indian Mulligatawny. I've made it a few times, and I found it to have the exact same taste if you put less water and cook it at least 3 hours. Also I think it doesnt have enough curry so I add a bit more. It also tastes a bit better if you liberally add shredded chicken to it.
All my favorite recipes are right here. There is nothing like a nice Pulse-Discharge Pancake to start the day off right. Everything tastes better with my Cook-O-Matic Electro Range.
SD
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
In the past, I've always checked http://soar.berkeley.edu/recipes/ first when looking for recipes. Unfortunately, it seems to be gone. Is anyone else familiar with this resource? Do any of you have any idea what happened to the site?
If it's no longer available, it's a shame. This was the only site I had to recommend.
Don't trust anything that bleeds for a week and lives.
All theses sites that people are mentions are already searchable by google.
Just enter the main ingredients and the word recipe and you will get hundreds of hits. Then if you want more switch over to google groups and you will get even more.
I have even gotten to the point I have removed most recipe software from my computer, it is just quicker to use google.
I just found another reply from Mar. 6 with the current address for the Berkeley archive. MAN, do I hate it when people like -me- don't bother reading other posts before putting in their two cents. Sorry, all.
Don't trust anything that bleeds for a week and lives.
This topic made me think about the possibilities for internet-enabled appliances. How about something with an internet connection that downloads recipes, and displays instructions as you go through them? Perhaps it could even do things like set temperatures, etc as you go through it
If you could somehow make a device that contained various spices the way a plotter handles pens, you could auto-season foods and other cool things...
I know how to cook perfect basmati rice, and it ain't anything like the contortions you describe here!
It's incredibly simple: Why make things so complex for yourself, grasshopper?
http://kochbuch.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/
Seems to be pretty open too. I use it on a regulary basis.
Aeons ago, the worthies of the Internet created The Usenet Cookbook, a set of files marked up in troff, which had everything one needed for early-netter cuisine. It was a glorious thing back then.
this is my very own submission to Allrecipes...
It's a vegan mushroom pot pie.
I love allrecipes, not only does it have a lot of good recipes, but reading the comments (often about variations and substitutions) has made me a better cook. And the rating system is very useful.
"I'll have a Guinness, no wait, make that a Coors Light" -Grad student I work with, who shall remain anonymous...
Since a recipe is merely a list of instructions, I figured that the GPL could be applied, although IANAL.
So, for Slashdot, I present Free Food :-)
[Don't go toasting my server now... :-]
Co-operation beats competition
Spend some time watching Good Eats(or at least reading a few transcripts from www.goodeatsfanpage.com) By the time you've gotten through 10 episodes, you begin to realize that recipes are completely optional if you only have some basic intuition about cooking. Heck, you don't even have to measure most of the time if you've got a basic feel for what works and what doesn't.
If you can burn boiling water, stay out of the kitchen. period.
Of course, if you still *have* to have a recipe, use google(which I'm sure this poster didn't before s/he asked this question).