Do you have a favorite food website?

[pscot]

Here are a couple of mine.

Whether you're looking for Escoffier's recipe for fois gras en pate, or 14TH century Aeabian sour meatballs , Food Timeline is a good place to start. It ranges from 10,000 BC (bread, beer & soup) to the present and is a treasure trove of information. http://www.foodtimeline.org/index.html

Cooking for Engineers is at the other end of the spectrum: technical information, product revues and carefully illustrated recipes, guaranteed to work. The recipes are somewhat basic, but very useful. There's an active commentariat. http://www.cookingforengineers.com/toc.php?sort=date

[cbayer]

1. Finecooking.com for me. Great recipes, great ideas for a single ingredient, reliable

outcomes.

:hi:

[FarPoint]

2. I love Michael Ruhlman

http://blog.ruhlman.com/

I just bought his book, "Ratio"....

Looking to get Michael Symon's new book; Live to Cook. ( Iron Chef Michael Symon )

Symon's new book is also discussed in the blog.

[beac]

3. The Food Timeline site reminded me of a BBC documentary we watched online last week about

King Edward's "The Forme of Cury" ("cury" = cooking)-- a scroll listing everything eaten at the royal table in a year, with recipes!

http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/the+kings+cookbook#watch%3Dv18924548G84dj5dD

Clarissa actually cooks some of the dishes and serves them to a group of medieval scholars.

[pscot]

4. Interesting site

I'll watch the videos when I have time.

[beac]

6. We're TV-free here and have been able to feed our documentary needs well on Veoh. Its

filtering is odd, so I find better results through searching for things like "BBC" rather than relying on their pre-defined categories.

[hippywife]

5. The two I seem to find most reliable

are www.smittenkitchen.com and http://simplyrecipes.com/

[housewolf]

7. Egullet.org - Serious foodies site

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?/index

some pros, lots of amatuers, all folks who love food, wine, cooking, baking, restaurants and all things culinary. Self-describes as "eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters, a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to advancement of the culinary arts."

There are 20 or more discussions at the site devoted to all sorts of topics and many centered on locaations within the US and also world-wide.

I frequently read their Pastry & Baking forum, where they do things like hold monthly bake-offs of a particular product or bake from a particular baking book. There folks ask & answer questions, report results, post pictures, etc. Some people post their recipes if the recipe isn't copyrighted. Lots to explore there, a site where you can spend hours.

[pscot]

11. It's kind of hard to imagine a copyrighted recipe

outside of some commercial formulations. I mean, we've been cooking for more than 10,000 years. Interesting site,though.

[hippywife]

8. I usually go to Simply Recipes and do searches

for recipes. I was just poking around the edges of her site a little more and found this nearly exhaustive list of food blogs!

http://simplyrecipes.com/food-blogs/archives.php

[pengillian101]

17. Hia Hippywife

Do you remember that one Pioneer type gal's site? That was a keeper, but alas apparently I didn't keep it. She's a city gal but married a cowpoke and they have kids and she blogs about it - and now has a book out. My memory cannot recall the full name, but I'm pretty sure Pioneer is in the title and that you introduced it around DU.

:hi: (Our last post I asked about Fiona, but what I meant to ask was how did Fiona survive living with your beautiful cats? I know she's outdoors now.)

[hippywife]

18. Yeah, she lives somewhere out here in OK.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/

Fiona survived living with the kitties by losing her freedom to roam the counter. They saw her and almost killed her. She had to be kept in a crystal bowl until it was warm enough outside to release her.

:hi:

[buzzycrumbhunger]

9. Too many

A good clearinghouse is Foodgawker (food porn that links you to TONS of stuff--and even the gross things look pretty). When I'm looking for something specifically geared toward our eating habits, I usually start with vegweb.

[Renew Deal]

10. I have a few

Though I mostly cook out of cookbooks.

America's Test Kitchen www.americastestkitchen.com They are run by Cooks Illustrated

Recipe Zaar is interesting www.recipezaar.com

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Not really. I have few I don't like much...

since they insist on ingredients like "One can of Campbell's Cream of Celery Soup."

Usually, I hear of something or get an idea and run it through a search engine, then pick out the more interesting sites.

(I'm getting better results on Bing than Google lately.)

[hippywife]

13. I avoid any recipes like that

and still find plenty of really good blogs that don't use those kinds of recipes, either. Still using Google.

[pengillian101]

15. "One can of Campbell's Cream of ...

This reminds me - I accidentally made a really great cream of chicken soup the other day.

I had made a quickie chicken noodle soup recipe with celery, onions, carrots, spices, cooked in chicken stock, and added some egg noodles. Cooked it for about 10 minutes and then added the leftover chicken we had.

Mmmm, it was tasty for a quickie and then I had the not-so-bright idea to add some cut-up frozen herbed biscuits for dumplings. Cooked for another length of time for the biscuits -- 20 minutes+) and of course the egg noodles turned to mush. What was I thinking? My painkiller meds must be affecting my brain.

I was about to throw the whole thing out, when I thought of cream OF soup! Whirled everything up in the food processor and dang, if that ain't pretty darn good!

[spinbaby]

14. I like the "Fun Playing with Food" blog

http://funplayingwithfood.blogspot.com/

[pengillian101]

16. Cooking with Clara - Depression Era

http://www.greatdepressioncooking.com/Depression_Cooking/Welcome.html

[pscot]

19. In case you've been wondering what to do with that bear

your brother-in-law dragged home, this site offers some ideas. I wonder if anyone has actually tried the apple and raisin stuffed raccoon or the skunk sandwich spread.

http://www.coon-n-crockett.org/cookbook.htm

[ginnyinWI]

20. http://allrecipes.com/

I had no idea there were so many out there. I thought everyone used the one I do! ;)

http://allrecipes.com/

[hippywife]

21. Adding another to the list.

http://joyofbaking.com/

This lady is very informative, precise, and has some of THE best recipes. Her New York Style Cheesecake is the standard around here. :9

[GoCubsGo]

22. The Cook's Thesaurus

It's an encyclopedia that discusses ingredients, including descriptions, synonyms, and substitutions. They also have a section on kitchen equipment. Here's the web site: http://www.foodsubs.com/

The Cooks's Thesaurus helped me out with my Indian cookbook. The cookbook listed the different lentils used for dals, but the descriptions weren't that great, and there were no pictures. This site has photos, which are very helpful.

I also enjoy Epicurious--www.epicurious.com. It's the web site for "Bon Apetit" and "Gourmet" magazines. Loads of recipes and food-related articles. They also have videos for various preparation techniques. Right now, they are featuring videos on things like brining and carving a turkey, patching up pie crusts and making gravy.