<p>I want to be able to cook for myself, but the only thing I know how to cook are simple stuff with eggs. So before I die of high cholesterol, I’d like to learn some other simple recipes I can cook.</p>
<p>Where do you find recipes that are simple, and healthy?</p>
<p>If you’re feeling brave, steamykitchen.com is also another good one. </p>
<p>Both are cooking blogs though, so you have to dig a bit if you’re looking for a specific recipe. </p>
<p>IMO, and ironically, FoodNetwork.com’s recipes suck. They always come out badly and differ greatly from what the show has. </p>
<p>However, the actual shows on TV have good recipes (What I mean is, you need to record the show on food network if there’s a recipe you want to do. Even though food network says the recipes are available on their website, they’re never the same and usually dumbed-down)</p>
<p>Show-wise, I like Giada’s recipes because her food is usually like a clean, elegant style.</p>
<p>Yeah, I hate foodnetwork.com…all their recipes a)take forever, b)take tons of effort, c)are expensive to make and d)never turn out well. I agree with Plattsburgh…record the show and do it from there.</p>
<p>Kraftfoods.com tends to have really good recipes too, and they’re usually easy and cheap.</p>
<p>Other than that, I have my family cookbook in a PDF file on my computer. that’s where I get most of mine.</p>
<p>My favorite sites are:
Allrecipes
Foodnetwork (I only make vegan things, but I’ve never had a bad experience with a highly rated recipe… in fact many of the recipes here are favorites now) Food.com</p>
<p>I also look for cookbooks at used book places and thrift stores. If they’re real cheap, I’ll pick them up.
I think the key for any of them is looking up highly rated recipes (if you don’t have the time/resources for really bad food). I find the reviews, in general, are accurate.</p>
<p>Also, I love FoodNetwork Magazine. The recipes on the website
aren’t great, but the magazine has a lot of great little tips, and
features a huge variety of recipes. One of my favorite parts is in
every issue they try and copy a really popular item from a restaurant
like a few issues ago they had the spinach dip from houston’s and
it tasted exactlyyy the same!</p>
<p>You can also get a cookbook! Although I love the option of on-line sites, a cookbook will help with very simple concepts of cooking. Betty Crocker now has a lovely hot pink version of its classic cookbook–a real draw for the guys. Joy of Cooking is also a classic. The good thing about having a cookbook is that sometimes you are in the middle of making something and need to have something explained. You can usually flip around in the book rather than having to go back to the computer. Of course, I am old, so maybe going back to the computer is really not a problem for younger people.</p>
<p>A basic cookbook will also have things like pancakes and how to cook certain cuts of meat.</p>
<p>^^^^Yeah, the food pictures to SmittenKitchen.com really are gorgeous. I get hungry just looking at them. </p>
<p>I recently used this peculiar recipe she had for a different style of scrambled eggs, where it has cream cheese added in (maybe I’m the only one who’s never heard of that before, lol) with scallions and some other stuff. </p>
<p>It came out so freaking good. The best scrambled eggs I have ever had in my life–and I don’t even really like scrambled eggs that much. </p>
<p>I like how her recipes are always kind of unusual. Things I never would have thought of combining or making. </p>
<p>Like a salad with raspberries and pine nuts in it (also delicious)</p>
<p>Everything at smitten kitchen looks sooo delicious. Too bad its bathing suit season and not Xmas. I’m dying to have an excuse to taste some of these.</p>