Food Blogs and Recipe Sites

OK, I know I'm not the only food porn addict here, so let's talk about your favourite food blogs! Also, which recipe sites do you use most often?

Obviously I'm with the rest of you on the Pioneer Woman, but I am also a big fan of Smitten Kitchen, Homesick Texan, Chez Pim, and The Domestic Goddess.

I like using the All Recipes UK (and US) site for recipes, mainly.

I'm pretty lame - I use Epicurious and Cooking Light for recipes a lot of the time. I also use BBC GoodFood. I actually try to steer clear of too much food porn because it just makes me really hungry!

I love the Southern Plate for her down home American cooking.

I'm pretty lame - I use Epicurious and Cooking Light for recipes a lot of the time. I also use BBC GoodFood. I actually try to steer clear of too much food porn because it just makes me really hungry!

One that might be useful to your diet, though still make you hungry is 101 Cookbooks. Awesome site for healthy recipes.  I am dreaming of this pan fried chickpea salad and might have to make it this weekend for my lunches next week:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/panfried-chickpea-salad-recipe.html

One that might be useful to your diet, though still make you hungry is 101 Cookbooks. Awesome site for healthy recipes.  I am dreaming of this pan fried chickpea salad and might have to make it this weekend for my lunches next week:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/panfried-chickpea-salad-recipe.html

That looks delicious!!! I might have to give it a go!

I also like Pioneer Woman & am a fan of Dutch Girl Cooking.

eta: also, for a Japanese flair (though she does deviate into other types of food), try Just Hungry & its sister blog Just Bento.

Sorry, am too lazy to do links, but you can find any of these by just Googling! 

Here's an old thread on this, though not all that many replies:

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=28222.0

Chocolate and Zucchini is well worth looking at.

I use Food Network's recipe site a lot, along with Epicurious, BBC Food and BBC Good Food, and then to a lesser extent recipezaar, allrecipes, cooks.com, and a few others.

Somewhere I came across a list of some top food blogs. I'll see if I can find it again.

eta: also, for a Japanese flair (though she does deviate into other types of food), try Just Hungry & its sister blog Just Bento.

Chez Pim is like this - her specialty is Thai food (oh help me!) but she also experiments with other cuisines. Really good site. 

I recently discovered http://www.RecipePuppy.com (and http://www.CookThing.com) on Digg.  They're amazing!

RecipePuppy, which also has a Firefox add-on available, lets you search by ingredients for recipes from all over the internet.  So, if you want something with shrimp and peas, for example, but can't decide what, you can do a search for all recipes using those two items.  Once you get your initial results, you can refine the search by choosing from lists of related ingredients that are displayed to the right of the page.  You can click 'I must use this,' 'I have this,' or 'Exclude this.'  The Exclude feature is great if there's something you're allergic to/can't stand. 

The related site is called CookThing.com.  It's basically the same search tool, but instead of searching by ingredient, if you already know what you want to make (pancakes, for example), you just search for that.  Then, it gives you a checklist of ingredients you want to use.  So, if blueberry pancakes are cool, but you wouldn't want pecan pancakes, you can choose that.  Then it does the same search that RecipePuppy does, bringing you all the recipes it finds on other sites.  You can then refine the results just like you do with RecipePuppy.


Seriously, I'm having way too much fun with these sites.   Best things I've ever found on Digg.

Oh cool! Thanks for that! I'm sure it will come in handy. 

I mostly use Epicurious, BBC and GoodFood, rather than blogs. Although I do like Food Football and a Baby. It's Michelle Peters's (she was on MasterChef a few years ago) blog, but she doesn't update nearly often enough. Her Indian recipes (she's half Indian) are fabulous.

Oh, and just today I heard about Food52, a new site that launched on Tuesday. It's the brainchild of a couple of alums from my university, and it's sort of a recipe-sharing site with a blog element, as well as competitions. I haven't had a good poke around it yet, but it looks promising!

I tend to use cooking light, bbc good food and the food network.  I get the weekly newsletter of the Splendid Table (NPR show) and I like to listen to the podcast and review the recipes online.
For lots of fun recipes that I can't ever find the ingredients for I like pillsbury and betty crocker as well- but I like to look.   
For some reason I liked the vegan lunchbox, except it got all weird once she starting homeschooling.
The pioneer woman is great too 

For some reason I liked the vegan lunchbox, except it got all weird once she starting homeschooling.
The pioneer woman is great too 

You should take a look at 101 Cookbooks. It's all vegetarian recipes, a lot of them really easy to do, and she has some unique and interesting dishes on there. 

You should take a look at 101 Cookbooks. It's all vegetarian recipes, a lot of them really easy to do, and she has some unique and interesting dishes on there. 

Will check out- I often enjoy eating vegetarian so its good to have a recipe box