posted on April 5, 2002 10:56:45 PM new
I found the allrecipes.com website by accident a few months ago, and I absolutely LOVE it! The site is very easy to navigate, there have to be thousands of recipes on it, and it's all made up of regular people submitting their own recipes. You can set up your own online "recipe box" when you find a recipe you like, and you can even review the recipes that you try (and also read the reviews that everyone else has written).
You can sign up for getting e-mail newsletters (they come out about once a week), and there is a cooking encyclopedia and tutorials available. I've even been able to find near matches for a few treasured recipes that somehow got lost over the years.
Happy eating....
(Gee, I wish I had an "eating smiley" to go here!)
posted on April 9, 2002 11:37:01 AM new
Great website. Found this one a couple of years back. What I really like about it is that you can find out how users actually rated a recipe. "Grandma's Famous Chicken & Dumplings" might actually taste like dogfood!
OTOH, if we went on popularity, McDonald's might be considered gourment fare.
posted on April 9, 2002 12:32:19 PM new
I always passed places by that said home cooking until my wife explained that's supposed to be good. Not with my Mom.
posted on April 13, 2002 12:39:30 AM new
Golly gee, they just HAPPEN to sell that cookbook on eBay! I may pick up a copy for myself. We have a nice big (oval) 5.5 quart crockpot, and we just LOVE a nice, yummy, slow-cooked stew. I bought a bunch of corned beef around St. Paddy's day, so we've been using our pot quite a bit lately....
posted on April 13, 2002 12:25:06 PM newGolly gee, they just HAPPEN to sell that cookbook on eBay!
Well, I'm hanging on to mine, because I can actually produce edible meals with it. It will not end up on eBay. Probably pass it on to my grandchildren in my Will someday. My new crockpot is the same size/shape as yours.
I got a cookbook from Betty Crocker "One Dish Meals." I think I'm going to see if she has a current one. Mine is vintage and some of the recipes call for discontinued products. I do like the ease of the recipes, so maybe eBay will have a newer one I can snag!
I didn't think to try corned beef, but now that you mentioned it, I will. I love my crockpot, too.
posted on April 13, 2002 04:11:31 PM new
Speaking of old cookbooks, my mom has a 1939 Fannie Farmer cookbook that we hardly ever use. There's a recipe in there for "Hamburg Patties"! I wonder when they started being called "hamburgers"?......
posted on April 13, 2002 05:13:21 PM new
mcbrunnhilde,
"Hamburg Patties" makes it sound like a new dish for 1939. I wonder when they got the idea to add cheeseUnbelievable she has one from 1939!!
I picked up a 1990 Fannie Farmer 75th anniversary edition at the library last year for 10cents. It's very heavy with a beautiful cover and dust jacket. It must be a popular book - it's had so many reprints. It looks like the first copyright was 1906.
I bought it because I figured I couldn't lose for 10cents!
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