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Recipes
We have cut through the clutter of the millions of recipes sites on the internet (most of which are just horrible pop-up ad sites) and selected quality recipes sites that you will find very useful. Many offer online videos for their recipes. In addition, please check out our Food411 Blog, where our very own Chef Silvia has added recipes and we also post a few of the Q&A's that are submitted to "Ask Chef Silvia". Wonderful recipes can also be found in our food blog section.
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All Recipes - Cook's reference, encyclopedia, conversions, recipes.
Epicurious - Extensive recipe database, 20,000+ recipes by Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines and cooking videos. The allows us to create your own recipe "box" for future reference.
All Food - Recipes and reference. Ask the chef, tips of the day.
Food TV - Recipes from your favorite TV chefs.
BBC Foods - Recipe database from the BBC network.
Cooking for Engineers - A great recipe site with step by step pictures and instructions - great information.
Foodie View - Crawls numerous recipe sites and indexes themto be searched. Over 100,000 recipes indexed to date! Search can be narrowed by ingredients, famous chefs, or type of cuisine. You can save your recipes in a personal recipe box!
Italian Kitchen - Mario Batali's site: recipes, ask Mario, more.
foodgeeks - Online community for food geeks to share recipes and info about cooking and ingredients. Over 9,000 recipes. What fun !
Mediterrasian - A wealth of wonderful recipes from the mediterranean and asian diets. The world's oldest health revolution!
Afro Food TV - Dedicated to teaching everyone about African foods and recipes. View easy to follow recipes and learn all about African cuisine.
Crash Test Kitchen - A fun recipe blog that inlcudes a video with each recipe - the video is the real deal - mess ups included! What fun.
Cook with me - Learn how to cook Austrian food, detailed descriptions of free online recipes. Learn about the Austrian cooking and lifestyle with Vienna/Austria Chef Bernhard Baumgartner.
Recipe Site Review - A source for finding recipe websites classified by country of origin and ranked by site quality.
Happy Cookers - Recipes from the CA's Dorothy McNett's TV show.
Recipe Zaar - Real people from all over the world have shared and rated more than 109,000 recipes.
Make Great Cookies - Original recipes and creative ideas for cookie bakers.
Cookies in Motion - Everything about cookies - the science behind making them, recipes, a blog, understanding the ingredient and the effects of them.
America's Test Kitchen - Public TV #1 cooking show website. The show is filmed in the test kitchen of Cook's Illustrated magazine. The website offers all the recipes from the magazine, as well as, the 8 seasons of shows. Great resource.
Cooking Bread - The world of Breadmaking: online classes, recipes, wonderfully tasty bread recipes and online cooking classes.
Cookie Club Recipes - Largest cookie recipe club.
Fresh Herbs - Dedicated to herb recipes and a wealth of info on herbs.
Anna Maria's Open Kitchen - Italian recipes, illustrated.
Food Geeks - Food geeks submit their recipes.
Fish 4 Fun - Captain Cook's fish recipes and informational resource.
Corn on the Cob - Website obsessed with Corn on the Cob recipes and cooking tips: fully photographed, step-by-step guides.
Recipe Delights - Indian recipes and glossary.
French Food Cook - French Recipes/cooking tips.
Joy of Baking - Baking resource, recipes.
IMP Online - Home style recipes.
Caterer Search Recipes - Primarily aimed at industry professionals it has a large database of recipes, including some from high profile professional chefs. Search by cuisine, chef and food type.
Cooking.com - Database of recipes, menu planning.
Cooking with Google - Enter a few ingredients, Google finds recipes that fit your ingredients.
Nigella Lawson - Database of Nigella's recipes and reader's recipes.
Fine Cooking - Magazine's database of recipes.
Food and Wine - Magazine's database of recipes.
Family Circle - Magazine's database of 3,000 recipes.
Top Secret Recipes - Recipes to create clones of America's favorite brand-name foods.
Site of the Month
Culinate
For excellent, informative food website - an ongoing conversation about eating well. Articles, cooking tips, interviews, recipes, podcasts, resources, blog posts - will help you put real food into your life. We are big fans of the site!
Editor’s Pick
Effie's Homemade Oatcakes
The "perfect" extra for your tea/coffee. Nutty, crunchy but flaky and not too sweet. We LOVE these cookies. They are extremely addictive.
Featured Products
Redwood Hill Goat Cheese
Their French-style California Crottin with its wonderful rind, and robust, earthy flavor is our favorite. Redwood Hill produces the least processed goat milk products available anywhere. A family farm, they we use a natural approach to animal husbandry to hand craft their award -winning goat milk cheese and yogurt.
AJ Gourmet
Stuffed manzanilla fina olives from Spain, handpicked and stuffed with the finest ingredients, available at AJ Gourmet.
Featured Sites
Jacksonville Mercantile
JacksonvilleMercantile.com is a must see gourmet and specialty foods store. Awesome selection!
Lillie Belle Farms
One of America's Top Chocolate Artisans. Always Organic, Natural and Preservative free.
Chocolate Cravings
Poco Dolce
Their bittersweet tiles are impossible to forget - they are a perfect creation for real chocolate aficionados. Tiny dark chocolate tiles topped with grey salt - each with its own wonderful bits of ingredients such as Aztec chile, ginger, burnt caramel toffee, etc. Their creator Kathy Wiley has master the art of simple chocolate perfection.
