Many people have been asking where I get my recipes. I have a stack of cookbooks, but I also read quite a few food blogs, and I find myself increasingly pulling from those sources. Now that Thanksgiving is over and no one wants to look at food, here are some of the sites I've found.
The Traveler's Lunchbox
This is the single best food blog I've found. It has great photography, wonderful writing, and excellent recipes. Author Melissa is an expat hobby chef who has no qualms about trying any sort of cuisine.
Recommended Humor: Seven Steps to Perfect Brioche
The very amusing story of Melissa's quest to make brioche, with a wonderful side quest of stalking a KitchenAide stand mixer.
Recommended: Banh Mi
Banh Mi is a type of Vietnamese sandwich. This version is made with glazed pork. Very easy, and much better than cold cuts.
Foodaholic
This one has a lot of things going for it. It's updated every 2 or 3 days, with great photos and recipes that I really want to try. The most interesting thing about it, though, is that it's written by someone who is currently enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. Many of her posts cover whatever they did in class that day. The author is training for patisserie, so this is mostly dessert and bread recipes, though every so often she'll throw in a quick post about whatever she had for dinner. Bonus: She's Malaysian, and she has some Malay recipes on her site. I haven't tried anything though.
SlashFood
This site is very handy because it focuses on current events in the food world. If you want a quick overview of current food events, go here. They summarize several newspaper food sections, including the New York Times, and they regularly post interesting tidbits in other food blogs that you might not know about. They're also very regularly updated, with new posts several times each day. I haven't tried any recipes from here, but I'll assume they all know what they're doing, since one of the contributors found time on Thanksgiving to post regular Thanksgiving Dinner updates throughout the day, complete with photos.
Food Network
This isn't a food blog. It's the Food Network's website. It has all the recipes from all the TV shows, as well as some great informational content and demos. Very useful if you want to find many different variations on a single recipe, since multiple chefs will often cover the same content on their shows.
Recommended: Tyler Florence's Alfredo Sauce Extremely simple and easy. Ignore all the junk at the top about home made pasta and scroll down to the bottom of the page for alfredo. As long as you get some decent cheese, it will turn out perfect every time. I add 4-6 cloves of chopped garlic in with the cream, because I like garlic.
101 Cookbooks
I don't read this one regularly, but I should. It takes recipes from cookbooks and tests them, making adjustments as necessary. And we're not talking about your momma's Joy of Cooking either. The author lists all her cookbooks on the right side of the screen, and I haven't heard of most of them.
Recommended: Vanilla Sweet Potato Puree
The infamous Sweet Potatoes from a few posts ago. I made them yesterday for Thanksgiving and they're still good. I also made the spice oil this time. A little bit goes a very long way, so we have a bunch of extra now.
Cooking For Engineers
This is a really good site for people who aren't all that comfortable in the kitchen. It's written by an engineer who didn't know how to cook and was very frustrated by the standard recipe format so he made his own.
Pimp That Snack
This is just silly. People take small snacks and figure out how to make really gigantic ones. Check out this post about making a giant sized Cadbury Creme Egg.
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