Where do you go for recipes?

Where do you go for recipes? When you want to try something new and don't have a "go to" person, I mean.

I used to buy those recipe books you see at the grocery check out, but now with the internet you can get the same recipes for free. Problem is, I find the internet to be either overwhelming, or most of the bigger sites have bland recipes that my grandmother used to make.

I am quite good at experimenting, but sometimes I want something specific and want to try to make it as authentic as possible.

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You won't get anything fancy but all the recipes have ingredients you can find in the store

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You won't get anything fancy but all the recipes have ingredients you can find in the store

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Lol. I have that top one. I still make my turkey dressing from it. Have for 25 years.

radcen said:

Where do you go for recipes? When you want to try something new and don't have a "go to" person, I mean.

I used to buy those recipe books you see at the grocery check out, but now with the internet you can get the same recipes for free. Problem is, I find the internet to be either overwhelming, or most of the bigger sites have bland recipes that my grandmother used to make.

I am quite good at experimenting, but sometimes I want something specific and want to try to make it as authentic as possible.

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If it's something I'm starting from scratch trying to learn, I tend to use allrecipies.com more than anything else. It's a good site, and things are ranked. I'll look for something I want to make, then find a recipe that has high marks with plenty of reviews. I will look over the listed recipe and then look through the reviews. There tends to be great ideas on how to improve the recipe in the reviews. I'll cobble together what I want from those sources and give it a try. Make my own adjustments after that.

My entire family has one go to book for recipies that nearly never fail: Meta Givens Encylopedia of Cooking. These are the no-fail always work easy recipies which require not 12-15 ingredients but normally 5-8 ingredients. Everything from soup to nuts.

For more modern stuff, Recipes - Allrecipes.com (and All Recipes Magazine), as well as Cooks Magazine have some interesting things - much of the modern cooking and chefs however are using 12, 15 and sometimes more ingredients for one dish which to me is insane. How many times will I be using Surimi paste beyond one dish? So I rarely go for the exotic two dozen ingredients dishes and stick to simple stuff - I can cook it and the wife doesn't mind when I do.

Browse second hand bookshops and go for the old old old stuff.

Anything by Marguerite Patten, Elizabeth David or Fanny Craddock and you really can't go wrong.

radcen said:

Where do you go for recipes? When you want to try something new and don't have a "go to" person, I mean.

I used to buy those recipe books you see at the grocery check out, but now with the internet you can get the same recipes for free. Problem is, I find the internet to be either overwhelming, or most of the bigger sites have bland recipes that my grandmother used to make.

I am quite good at experimenting, but sometimes I want something specific and want to try to make it as authentic as possible.

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Most of the recipes I use I got from the internet. Some of them I got from family members, TV shows and cookbooks. The internet is also useful for finding different variations of a dish just in case I do not have all the ingredients that the first recipe calls for.

radcen said:

Lol. I have that top one. I still make my turkey dressing from it. Have for 25 years.

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EVERYONE has the top one.

What are these "recipes" you speak of???


Actually, my favorites are anything by Steve Raichlen. If you like to cook with fire and smoke, then his books are must haves.