DW Community Catch-up Thread
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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.
Thanks ktfran! I thought I remembered someone on the site talking about cooking and recipes a while back :>) I think I have a vegan roasted carrot soup recipe from Love and Lemons that we really like, so I’ll definitely check them out for more dinner ideas. In fact all of these sound amazing, I’ll check them out now and head over to Amazon for the cook book! It could be perfect for us because I almost always make too much food.
Tonight I’m making the Smitten Kitchen bowtie pasta with sugar snap peas (from the farmers market), lemon, ricotta and mint.
Nytimes cooking is pretty good. You can look up easy recipes or just an ingredient and they pull recipes from chefs from all over. I hate the 3,000 words about Aunt Doris’s favorite peach pie or whatever anecdotal tale every blogger writes before you get to the recipe, and you can bypass all that. My husband and I are really picky and sometimes we grocery shop every day. It’s really dependent on how you live and your habits. A lot of people thrive on meal planning and prep. I do not.
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!
I love the nytimes recipes. Anything I’ve made with a 5-star rating has deserved the rating. I’m making one tonight that is a hit in my family and so easy (and healthy): Turmeric-Black Pepper Chicken With Asparagus.
For light and healthy recipes that take great, I love the How Sweet Eats: https://www.howsweeteats.com
Every recipe I’ve tried is a winner.I love the aforementioned Love and Lemons too.
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.
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.
I don’t want to start my career over because I’m comfortable, have flexibility and make a decent living. But, if I had to do it all over again, I think a cookbook editor / recipe tester would have been a good career choice for me.
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!
Excellent point @copa. I think I’ll eventually write my own family cookbook. Recipes from my grandma + my mom and most of my aunts are great cooks so their recipes as well. Family stories + pics, etc. Kind of like an heirloom cookbook.
