Random Question of the Day: Cooking from Scratch
Holly emailed me this morning:"Can you post some websites or blogs that would be of help in the area of cooking from scratch?"
Comment and let us know what your favorites are. Also, I'd love to hear what your favorite cookbooks are. I'd also be interested to hear if you cook mostly from scratch at your home. It seems like this is fast becoming a lost art.
Here are a few of my favorite cooking websites to start things off:
I love to use AllRecipes. They have just about every recipe under the sun and my favorite feature is their ingredient search. You can type in what ingredients you have on hand and they will give you a list of recipes you can make with those ingredients.
For inexpensive meals, try MiserlyMoms.
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posted by Crystal Paine at 9:45 AM
15 Comments:
I cook almost exclusively from scratch. It saves money (but not time!) and the taste is SO much better than pre-made food.
My favorite recipe book is my Betty Crocker cookbook. It has all the "traditional" recipes in it, with a lot of helps and pictures in it.
I like baking from scratch because I feel like I have more control over the recipe.
I like www.recipesource.com for all kinds of things; everything I"ve tried has been yummy.
My favorite cookbooks are those home published, church cookbooks. Almost always, those recipes are delicious! Hmmmm.... just thinking about the recipes has me craving cheesy potatoes (a local potluck fave).
Katie
I have a bunch of my favorite recipes listed on my blog
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Martha/
My favorite cookbooks are The More with Less cookbook, Not Just beans, Beany Malone cookbook, My Taste of Home and Quick cooking cookbooks.
I cook all mostly from scratch as I do not like the taste of prepared food very much. Quick Cooking will have recipes for mixes too, but it has alot of ones that are just quick and easy without.
One of my favorite places to get recipes is friends! That is why another one of my favorite cookbooks is a cookbook a yahoo group I am on put together of all our favorite recipes! It has over 500 recipes!
You can go to the Taste of Home website and sign up for their newsletter. I has free recipes in them.
I love cookbooks and can sit and read them! If you want to learn to cook from scratch a good thing to have is a old edition of a a Betty Crocker or one of the reprints. It just has good basic recipes for cake, biscuits, bread etc, in it. They ate a little different then, but it is good wholesome, simple food!
I like old cookbooks that have many recipes that you almost have to cook from scratch. I also love my Light and Tasty cookbooks from Taste of Home. Everything I have made from any of the Taste of Home cookbooks has come out great and delicious and there are no weird ingredients.
I like history based cookbooks.
Sons of Confederate Veterans cookbook
African-American cookbook
Cowboys cookbook
Historical Manatee cookbook
Historical Florida
Not only do they have great recipes but often tell you how the recipe came to be and where it started and who were the first people to make it. And a little history about the region.
^^I like that idea.
allrecipes.com has a lot of Amish type suff in it. I have really enjoyed some of those recipes.
I only cook from scratch, too. I don't like the idea of having any sort of prepared food (not even canned soup or cake mix) in my diet; preservatives make me logy, plus I have to watch my blood sugar and prepared foods tend to have TONS of hidden, refined sugars.
I like allrecipes, but since it seems that many of the recipes submitted do have a prepared food item in the ingredients, I don't use it often.
I have an excellent, highly-recommended cookbook called "How to Cook Everything" which not only has basic recipes, but many, many ideas on how to add to those recipes as well as suggestions for food parings. I used it a lot when I was learning to cook, and I still use it for reference when I'm trying something new.
The other thing I do when I have a limited number of ingredients is enter those items in a google search. All sorts of recipes pop up from many different sites. Or you can hit "I'm feeling lucky" and usually get an interesting recipe.
*food pairings, not parings. oops.
One I use frequently is:
www.hillbillyhousewife.com
And like pp said, it takes more time but saves so much. Sometimes I tell my husband that I have more time than money, so it is worth it to me.
Ooo,cooking from scratch is one of my favorite things! The cookbooks I use the most would be Sue Gregg's cookbooks (www.suegregg.com) and the Better Homes and Gardens one. You can't go wrong with any of those.
I cook from scratch almost all of the time. That's just how my family likes to eat. Unfortunately, I'm a very "dump it until it looks right and then taste it" cook so I don't have a lot of recipes. And since my family doesn't like to try a lot of new stuff, I rarely look for new recipes unless they are for myself. :) (I try and eat a bit healthier then my family, so sometimes I eat differently. :))
I love to cook from scratch! Oh, what a boring world it would be if we only had prepared, quick, pre-packaged junk!
I have probably 100 cookbooks and check out new ones at the library regularly. I love reading cookbooks. There is always more to learn. I love to try new recipes. My family enjoys this, too!
I'd be so disappointed if I had to cook for a potatoes and meat kinda guy! We love new and different foods. Fresh is always best!
Bessie
Taste of Home has my favorite recipes in it. Their recipes are down to earth and sound like real people can actually make them.
I cook mostly everything from scratch here... mostly because I enjoy it and because it's cheaper... most of the time. (Boxed macaroni and cheese is much less than making it... but the taste isn't 1/2 as good either...)
I cook from scratch the majority of the time--occasional canned beans and tomatoes, but almost no pre-prepared food. I have a ridiculous number of cookbooks, but one of my favorites is the Student's Vegetarian Cookbook. It's geared toward folks who are just learning to cook, but all of the recipes I've tried in it have been good. The focus is on things that are tasty, veggie, and frugal, so if that interests you, I'd recommend it!
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