Friday, August 17, 2012

Reason I'm Joining allrecipes.com Right Now


 The 9 year old’s confession to me earlier today.

“You’re a good cook, Mom. You’ve never given us salmonella.”

Really? This is now the standard for good cooking at our house? Not okay. Not when you’ve got enough chutzpah to write a blog implying that you are a guru across many different categories, including health.

The situation must be remedied presto. And the website “allrecipes.com” is the way to do it. It’s got 40,000 recipes. It’s free to join, and there’s a free app you can download for your phone.

This last part is key because I’m as famous for getting out the cookbook, writing down a grocery list from it and then forgetting it at home as Kim Kardashian is for her derriere. Only my character defect hasn’t made me rich, famous or a designer of my own Sears fashion line.
If the recipe and grocery list are on your phone, you’re all set. The fine folks at allrecipes.com have gone one step further. What if you don’t want to head to the grocery store but have a whole fridge and pantry full of food, including capers from that time you whipped up that weird, Greek dish that everyone in the family hated?

There’s a special feature where you can type in items that you have on hand – say chicken and capers – and it will pop out a recipe that includes these items for you. How great is that? No more capers moldering away in the back of the fridge.

I don’t know about you, but I am all for something that brings about more inspired cooking and less refrigerator cleaning. That something is “all recipes.com”. Give it a try. It can’t be as bad as “Kardashian Kollection” klothes.

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