This is one of my favorite topics @Part-time Lurker! I love to cook. I especially love to cook in the spring and summer after visiting the farmer’s market, which I do weekly. Here are a few of my sites and why I love them:

https://www.loveandlemons.com: while I’m not a vegetarian, I cook so much from this site. I like it because the recipes are easy and she gives you alternatives. You never have to follow exactly. Win-win!

https://www.dinneralovestory.com: I probably visit this site just as much as Love & Lemons. Recipes are easy and good. I do a lot of cabbage recipes from here. And the the simple, 15-minute Greek lemon soup is perfection.

Smitten Kitchen for baking, apps and soups and a couple of pastas!

Simply Recipes for just about everything else, especially if you’re looking for a recipe from when you were a kid!

Those are my 4 top blogs to find recipes.

Finally, if there are just two of you, this is THE BEST cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Cooking-Two-Cookbook-Everything/dp/1936493837

Mine is literally falling apart so it might be time for a new one. I’ve used this cookbook for about 15+ yrs now on the regular.

Tonight I’m making the Smitten Kitchen bowtie pasta with sugar snap peas (from the farmers market), lemon, ricotta and mint.

I’ve heard good things about The NY Times recipes before. I had no idea I could search by ingredient. That could be perfect for those end of week dinners when the refrigerator is full of randomness. Thanks anonymousse! All of the pictures on Smitten look delicious. I think we’re really going to like them!

Thanks Wendy! The summer shitake mushrooms on How Sweet look delicious! I just favorited the site. It looks like my husband and I will have plenty of fun new recipes to try out this summer.

My doctor recently recommended the Mediterranean Diet to me after my bloodwork had a couple panels that were elevated over my last visit. Trying to incorporate that about 80% in my life atm.

I, too, love Love and Lemons. The woman behind it actually lives in my neighborhood and I’ve wondered before if I’d recognize her if I ever saw her. I also like Cookie and Kate for whole food/vegetarian recipes.

I have The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook by America’s Test Kitchen and it has a lot of good recipes and info. Some are a bit more time consuming, but they call out recipes that are quick to make.

One of my good friends is a registered dietitian and is a fan of The Defined Dish.

I had dinner at my cousin’s house two nights ago and she told me about The Real Food Dietitians. She is currently breastfeeding and has had to eliminate dairy, gluten, and soy to try to troubleshoot some issues her infant is having. That website lets you filter recipes by meal, dietary restriction, cooking method, etc. She made a salad from that site and it was delicious even without cheese. I plan to take a closer look when I get home from my work trip.

At least some of the food bloggers (and “influencers”) I follow kind of fell into their online careers. They started food blogs as a hobby and eventually they took off enough to make that their full-time jobs. Which reminds me, I also like Downshiftology! She went from corporate burnout to food blogger when she realized the impact a high stress lifestyle had on her health and how whole, nutrient dense foods (and slowing down) can be healing. So there’s always the hobby-to-career pipeline, @ktfran!