Online recipes?

[Orang Utan]

My mum wrote a load of hers up and sent them to me in a binder!

 

[tarannau]

Isn't it more important just to get people cooking in the first place, rather than insisting they research all the ingredients and study what they're doing?

That's a bit of an extreme parody of what I suggested to be fair. You could have easily avoided that problem by just tasting the slightest sliver of ginger, which would have been in front of you.

Researching and 'studying' wasn't really necessary in that case.

 

[mrsfran]

I'm slightly in the opposite in growing up in a family where there are no recipes - there's a keen food culture, but recipes are of the verbal bung it in and taste persuasion. I didn't even really get a go in the kitchen till I left for uni - the matriachs in the family quickly ushered me out of the galley. I remember learning my first recipe over the phone at uni - a cream/winey sauce for pasta iirc, followed by recipe for stew chicken and dumpling. Cooking always seemed effortless and without hassle to a large extent - it was that 'give it a go' attitude which encouraged me to a huge extent.

Then you were very lucky and I am envious. But for those of us who didn't grow up with this benefit, good cookbooks can be of great use. I never learned at my mother's knee, and what seems instinctual common sense to you sadly isn't for many others. Which is where good recipes come in. That's where most of us learn the basics nowadays.

 

[mrsfran]

That's a bit of an extreme parody of what I suggested to be fair. You could have easily avoided that problem by just tasting the slightest sliver of ginger, which would have been in front of you.

Researching and 'studying' wasn't really necessary in that case.

But even if I had tasted a bit of ginger it wouldn't have made any difference. I didn't know what ginger was supposed to taste like. For all I knew, it was supposed to be that strong. I was a beginner, I did not know. I had to trust what was written in front of me. And when that mistake was made, I learned from it. I would rather have learned via the recipe actually working, but by using the recipe I did learn.

And as for not researching it, how then was I supposed to know this:

A thumb sized piece of ginger's fine for a chinese soup though, isn't it? I tend to use a hefty chunk of about that size in a number of oriental soups. The important thing is to add it whole rather than grated or similar

Without research? It was a flawed recipe, and I didn't know well enough how not to follow it. Most people aren't lucky enough to have had the culinary education you had unfortunately.

 

[perplexis]

epicurious.com is pretty good, with a varied and usually tasty selection of recipes. And it lets you search by ingredients so it's handy for those uninspired moments.

 

[snackhead]

some good ones here

http://www.cuisine.com.au/

 

[dodgepot]

Know any good resources for recipes?

yes.

 

[Orang Utan]

yes.

Did you think that was clever?

 

[Looby]

Another vote for BBC Good Food and missfrans blog, I've made quite a few things from them both recently.

Magic Sam found an amazing lamp recipe for christmas from Dundee City website.

 

[selamlar]

I have no IDEA why they would block my site. There's no ads, no pornography and very little baby-eating. Weird.

Unless they blocked the whole of wordpress? I know China have.

Dunno. Part of the problem is that I don't know what this is:

T.C. Fatih 2.Asliye Hukuk Mahkemesi 2007/195 Nolu Kararı

Other than 'Decision 2007/195 of the First Division Civil Court of the Turkish Republic'. Which don't help very much.

Its probably something for you to be proud of though. Well Done!

 

[wtfftw]

The uktvfood website has heaps of recipes. You can sort them by chef or ingredient or whatever. Can't link you tho' as I'm on my DS.