Tag: RECIPES

Google's latest search trick is recognizing recipes in search results, and showing you a quick overview of a recipe before you even click through. Thanks to some XML tricks, you'll soon be able to see ingredients, ratings and thumbnail images for recipes right in your search results. Google's recipe search also has some advanced options (found in the search sidebar), including filters for ...

Web sites with recipes are a dime a dozen. But the new Food.com isn't just a recipe web site. It's a recipe aggregator, search engine, and storage tool. Here's how it works. You enter a search term and Food.com will look for matching recipes from Recipezaar, epicurious, Food & Wine, Chow, and other sites. The search results page shows some basic information including an ingredient list. If ...

There are lots of iPhone apps that help you find nearby places to eat or shop, but Locavore offers a totally different twist. It tells you which foods are in season and available locally, and also helps you find farmers' markets where you can pick them up. It also links to information and recipes for each of the ingredients in its database. The search is by state, so some of the markets that come ...

When we first wrote about Open Source Food, we said we loved the idea but the site needed some love. Well, it seems that OSF's creator, Jon Yongfook Cockle, thought the same thing because he's overhauled the whole enchilada and it's tastier than ever. Navigation is much more intuitive and background is minimalist so pictures of the delicious dishes really stand out (warning: some of the food ...

How often have you found yourself with a can of Spam and no good recipe for Spam Breakfast Burritos, Spam Swiss Pie, or Spam Hashbrown Bake? It happens to us all the time. And while we could go search any of the thousands of recipe sites that populate the internet, Google's decided to make it easy to find all your Spam-related recipes in one place: your Gmail box box. Now, we're well aware that ...

Ever have a craving for fish, but no recipe handy for turning your craving into dinner? CookThink can help. Well, almost. The idea is that you enter an ingredient, dish, cuisines, or other keyword and CookThink will find an appropriate recipe, some cooking tips, and a list of alternate recipes that might meet your needs. As a keyword/tag based recipe finder, CookThink is excellent. But it's a ...

Say you've got a few dozen recipes bookmarked from various websites. Then there's that stack of recipes you inherited from mom. You could print out your online recipes and slap them in a binder along with your index card collection. Or you could use TasteBook to create a professional-looking cookbook. The site just launched a public beta. You can save recipes from partner sites including ...

MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster are great if you're looking for general interest social networking. But Open Source Food shows that sometimes niche is where it's at. Open Source Food is a community site for food lovers and cooks, both amateur and professional. If you're looking for a little inspiration, you can browse through the beautifully photographed images or search the site for recipes. ...

Tired of the same old meals you always seem to make? Looking for something good and different to cook tonight besides what Martha suggests? GroupRecipes is a place for food lovers to congregate and share recipes through a useful online resource. It's aimed at food lovers everywhere, and promotes the interaction with other users through showing off creations, and meeting people that might have the ...

That's right, Yahoo now has their brand spankin' new food site up with a recipe search, restaurants, celebrity appearances, videos, and segments of the quintessential Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart. One feature I like is the "Recent Activity" area that will keep track of the latest things you've searched for, much like Amazon's "the page you made" feature. Yahoo Answers is even in on the new food ...

There are a lot of drink recipe sites and some of them will give you a list of drinks you can make based on your list of what your bar is stocked with. However, none of them were quite able to get it right until Extratasty. From skinnyCorp, the makers of Threadless, Extratasty has all the Web 2.0 fixins: pastel colors, big fonts, tags, RSS feeds, and AJAX. But beyond all that, it's social software ...

Please help us welcome Weblogs, Inc.'s newest blog, Slashfood, to our big family. Slashfood, as perhaps you've already guessed, is a blog for those who love food, be it eating, preparing, having it prepared for you, or just wandering the aisles of the grocery store, dizzy with awe. They're off to a great start, with posts like Top 25 food hacks, The Cookie Sutra, and Spaghetti Eating 101. And, if ...