Using the Internet to Help the Creative Cook

By Mary Gallagher

The internet has certainly changed a lot of things for those of us that like to cook, read about food and just generally experiment with ingredients. Now I can type an ingredient say eggplant or brussel sprouts into the recipe search on Epicurious.com and come up with many choices of recipes for these ingredients or anything else I find in the back of the refrigerator.

Another e-mail newsletter that offers food information with many famous Chefs like Gordon Ramsey is from the BBC. Sign up for a free BBC Food E-mail Newsletter. Occasionally an ingredient will throw you if you re not familiar with European names for some of our vegetables as in eggplant aka aubergine.

Feeling like a cake for tomorrow? Start with a google search for cake recipes and you'll be overwhelmed with pages and pages of choices. Narrow the search with more key words like: vanilla cake, yellow cake, cake mix, cupcakes and you can go on long into the night.

If you watch the Food Network they have over 30,000 recipes on their website Foodnetwork.com.

It's the same if you have allergies or need to avoid a particular ingredient. Just ask your computer and it will find that information in the blink of an eye. Perhaps your mother had a favorite recipe but she never wrote it down. Try the internet, some sites specifically answer the question of lost recipes and others mimic fast food and restaurant chain sauces and "secret" ingredients for specialties. Top Secret Recipes or Top Secret Copycat Recipes.

Never more do we have to stand at the open refrigerator door wondering what to create tonight for the hungry hordes. Step to your computer and throw in pork chops or ground beef and stand back for the onslaught of a million ways to fix either.


 

 


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