Favorite Food Websites

[pluckyduck]

I'll start you off with the one everybody knows:

Epicurious .... and then I'm going to go hunt down my first (and only) NRd Epinion. When I first joined Epinions, I posted a piece on places to find quick meal recipes under Quick Meal Recipes.



Had that puppy down within five minutes after getting a couple NRs.

Anyhoo, it had some nice resources in it. Might as well get some mileage out of it.

Andrea

[pluckyduck]

ROFLMAO! I have got to share my first paragraph with you guys! Talk about having just fallen off the turnip truck and onto Epinions. Get a load of this:

Epinons.com asks that you submit original recipes for inclusion of your epinion in this category. I'm breaking the rules here, but it was the best place I could find to pass (what I think is) helpful information along. If there's a better place for me to post this review, please let me know.

I must have picked that up from somebody else's review...yes???

Anyway, I only had two sites in the piece, which I reviewed at length. I'm not going to post the review here, since technically that's still a violation of TOS...after all, my review was posted on Epinions for all of five minutes.

Here are the sites:

Kraft Foods
I wasted an entire afternoon one day trying to stump the "Make it Now" interactive thingie with bizarre ingredients I claimed to have in my cupboard.

Reynolds Kitchens
I really like the recipes on this site....I like those foil packet thingamabobs, especially during grilling season.

And yes, I realized later I could repost my review under Site Reviews, but the NR trauma was a bit too much por moi to go there again.

Andrea
who has a whole stockpile of sites somewhere...she was planning on making the QMR thing a series!!! (laughing so hard she might fall over!)

[magenta321]

I like cooking light. I believe it is just www.cookinglight.com

[pluckyduck]

I could post it in the Freebies forum too.


Chef Paul Prudhomme has a great website and offers free samples of his spices. (Mail in offer, but it is free with just a dollar for postage).

I love his spice blends. I don't use them as much as I used to since they contain salt we are trying to avoid, but ... they make it really easy to add flavor quickly.

Andrea

[conradd]

Thanks, Andrea, just addresssed my envelope and enclosed a dollar. I can't wait!

Another really interesting site is www.jelly.com where Fischer & Wieser gourmet sauces, jams and jellies can be ordered. A couple of years ago, Shane and I vacationed in Texas and drove up to Fredericksburg. I bought some preserves and syrups to bring home as gifts. As soon as I tasted them, I wished that I'd bought more. Last summer, Costco sold the F&W Roasted Raspberry Chipotle Sauce and I bought a bottle which I rationed like gold last winter. It was absolutely wonderful with grilled meats and baked chicken, with cream cheese as a dip, etc. This year, I bought 2 gallons of the stuff. That should last me for a while.

Anyway, I found their web site and will be trying more of their sauces and glazes. Usually I'm happy with local products but I've never found anything this good around here. It's really worth going back to Texas for, but I don't want to wait until then.

Deb

[slick4591[$]]

Deb,

There's another place in Fredericksburg that has some pretty good items D.L. Jardines. My favorite is the steak seasoning. I use it when I cook on the gas grill.

I've not tried that many, but the few I have are really tasty. And wouldn't you know it, they also sell Fischer & Wieser. Coincidence?

[tanster]

I'm also a big fan of Epicurious. The best thing about the site is that you can leave comments on recipes. That way, you can look at the comments people have left to see how they modified the recipe to their taste. Kinda like a cheat sheet for cooking.

Love the Paul Prudhomme spice mixes, too! I just went to our cupboard to look for the bottle to see which one we had, but we're plum out. We used it for blackened salmon. Yum.

Magenta, thanks for the tip on the Cooking Light site, I'm going to have to check it out!

tanster

P.S. Slick, why does your new pig's right ear look like it's got bites taken out of it? (Sorry, I'm pig-ignorant....)

[slick4591[$]]

Jennie,

I'm surprised this has just now come up. But, here's your answer ear notches.

[tanster]

Wow! This is cool!

So is your newest pig a "five-dash-nine"?

[slick4591[$]]

You catch on quick. I'm impressed! Actually, there is a 27 that doesn't show well in the pic. Makes her a 32-9.

[tanster]

Yep, I completely missed the 27. But I got the rest of them, woo-hoo!

-Jennie, who now thinks she can be a pig farmer's assistant in case the dotcom thing falls through