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Recipe Du Jour

A brand NEW recipe EVERY DAY!

The latest recipes from Epicurious's countless noted chefs and cookbook authors as well as from Gourmet, Bon Appetit, SELF, and Parade magazines. We'll show yesterday's recipe too, just in case you missed it!

Get inspired!

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A Feast for the Eyes & Ears

Looking for tips for meal planning or food shopping?
Films on food and eating
Food photography
Songs about food and eating
Food Garnishing, Ice Sculptures and more!

It's OK to PLAY with your food!

Menu Planning

We’ve all dealt with the what’s for dinner question many times. Being prepared is the key to eating healthier, having less stress during dinner time and gives your family an opportunity to be together. It also saves you time and money!! A...

Egg tips gadgets and trinkets

You search all the web for the coolest egg gadgets and egg making tips and lovely egg pictures ..everything I can find about eggs!

free movies, free movie downloads, best food movies ever!

Watching free movies online and free movie downloads are my latest passion. Soon I will publish new lenses about my discoveries on free movie downloads and how to watch free movies online. Meanwhile I get movies here.  Anyway, one of my favourit...

Playing With Food

Don't play with your food.  You've were told this over and over as a kid.  Why?  Why not play with your food?  Why not make a mashed potato snowman?  Why not test your hypothesis that peas will roll down celery sticks fa...

Light, Meatless Eats

Watermelon Recipes, Stories, History & More

  "Whenever I want to feel really beautiful, I help myself to a glass of Daddy's watermelon wine." One lady to another in Destrehan, Louisiana   My childhood memories of summer days are filled with thoughts of watermelons. Whether we...

tofu

Have you ever bought tofu with the intention of taking it home and making something edible with it - only to open the package and say to yourself, "No way!" If you were lucky, the water it came packed in didn't soak your clothes and spill a...

Asparagus

Asparagus is one of the first fresh vegetables of spring. Many people LOVE asparagus. Those who don't I'll reckon never had it properly prepared. The easiest route to ruin for most vegetables is overcooking. Crisp, colorful, tasty vegetables become a...

FDA News & Alerts

Keep up with important recalls & alerts.

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Measuring Up: Cooking Conversions

We're on the World Wide Web here, and that means different standards of measurement for many of our readers!

When measurements go beyond Low, Medium and High or a pinch or a dash or 1 part to 2 parts, we may need some help with converting from one system of measure to another.

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Please be sure to note "F" or "C" for temperatures in recipes.
This will help readers know when & how to make conversions.

Handy conversion links:
Butter Measure Conversions (Gram, Stick, Cup, Ounce or Tablespoon)
Common Cooking Volumes Conversion (Litre, Cup or Hogshead. Really!)
Oven Temperature Conversion (Celcius, Fahrenheit or Gas Mark)

Sweet Sensations

Satisfy your Sweet Tooth here!

Chocolate :: The Gourmet Guide

From the moment the aroma rises to your nose, to the sensual bliss of the feel and taste, fine chocolate is a gastronomic experience like no other. The focus of this lens is on the finest chocolates available. Understanding the differences between th...

Whipped Cream Made Easy - Plain & Flavored

Whipped Cream. A perfect topping for a dessert, waffles, fancy coffee drink or hot cocoa. Just thinking about it is pleasant.  It is lovely, fluffy and dreamy like a cloud and a delight to the seneses. This has inspired many creative uses for thi...

Chocoholics Anonymous

What is Chocolate? Chocolate comes from the cacao tree (theobroma cacao) which grows 20 degrees north or south of the equator in hot, wet tropical climates.  It is grown in countries such as Brazil in South America, Indonesia and Africa. Chocolate...

Catch o' The Day

Watermelon Recipes, Stories, History & More, Southwestern and Mexican Recipes, Fresh Seafood, No-Knead Bread (no kidding!), Best Hot Cocoa Recipes

Bubble & Squeak: Let's Dish!

We'd love to hear from you- comments, questions, ideas, suggestions...

Drop us a line! (Or your favorite recipe for "Bubble & Squeak")

Rusty-Quill Hey, what a great looking pantry! My first ever lens was going to be my gourmet frozen pizza recipe... but I have procrastinated for let's see... 2 years so far! =) I did just create a fun and fanciful tea lens I am rather excited about - Unique Tea Blends - enjoy some crazy concoctions and whimsical warbling. Posted September 12, 2008

beeobrien Wonderful group of lenses and this page is very useful. I'll be back often. Posted June 18, 2008

Susan52 I added a cookbook to the plexo, a kids' cookbook that I still love. My son is using it in the picture on my recipes lens. He's all grown up now, but he still enjoys that cookie recipe! Posted November 19, 2007

 

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Delicious Drinks and Bodacious Beverages

Find the right liquid refreshment for your meal or mood...

-Hot drinks for cool nights
-Selecting and pairing wine with food
-A new way to brew coffee
-Selecting from the dazzling varieties of coffee available

Best Hot Cocoa Recipes

Snuggling up with a good book and a hot cup of perfectly made cocoa is one of my favorite wintertime activities.  Join me in the quest for the best hot cocoa recipes and share your personal favorites. Image by CathyK

About Coldbrew Coffee

I am a big fan of cold brewed coffee...but many abhor it.  It's got about 60% less acid than other brewing methods (which accounts for most of the flavor change) and more caffeine.  That's okay by me.  I like ALL KINDS of coffee: ...

Albarino to Zinfandel : food pairing for new varietal wines

When planning a meal at home or just choosing a wine at a restaurant you inevitably come to the question "which wine goes with this food?" I like to turn this question around and ask What food goes with this wine? There are some general g...

Choosing Your Ingredients

Cheese club

The first rule of cheese club is you don't talk about cheese club. Read our tasting archives here.

Fresh Seafood

This lens has information on fresh seafood including fish, shrimp, lobsters, scallops, clams, oysters, mussels, squid and other delicacies. We encourage seafood enthusiasts to share recipes, articles and other information.

tofu

Have you ever bought tofu with the intention of taking it home and making something edible with it - only to open the package and say to yourself, "No way!" If you were lucky, the water it came packed in didn't soak your clothes and spill a...

Asparagus

Asparagus is one of the first fresh vegetables of spring. Many people LOVE asparagus. Those who don't I'll reckon never had it properly prepared. The easiest route to ruin for most vegetables is overcooking. Crisp, colorful, tasty vegetables become a...

Bouquet Garnis

Savor the Flavor!

Culinary Corner: Cooking with Essential Oils

When cooking with essential oils, you will receive the benefits of creating delicious food with natural, rather than artificial, flavoring agents while wonderful aromas waft through your kitchen. A few drops of an essential oil can transform an ordi...

Basil: Easier than you think!

A member of the mint family, Basil is a versatile herb used in culinary and medicinal applications as well as purely a garden ornamental. It grows in warm climates from the Mediterranean coasts to Southeast Asia, and is popularly used in Italian, Ind...

Cooking for Engineers

For those of you that like exact instructions and precise measurements, this is the place to find the specifics!

They also have a handy ***METRIC MEASURMENT CONVERTER***
at the top of the COOKING FOR ENGINEERS HOME PAGE.

This really is a surprisingly wonderful site full of great information, recipies and amusing anecdotes.
Please take some time to explore this extremely well-organized site. It truly is a treat!

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Baker's Rack

Beautiful Brick Wood-Fired Oven from 100 BCE, City of Pompeii excavation, Italy.
Photo: Barbara McManus, 2003

Christmas Recipes

My family has always loved cooking. Especially during the holidays. My grandmother and mother would bake for days. They made tons of Christmas cookies for us to eat. I have a lot of recipes here that I would like to share with you. Happy eating!

Tender, flaky, delicious whole wheat pie crust

This is Giddy's own home-made, whole wheat pie crust recipe, and boy is it good! Flaky, buttery, and with the wholesomeness and nutty flavor that only stone-ground, whole wheat flour can give. Fill this shell with Giddy's Broccoli-Pepper custard for a...

Never Too Many Christmas Cookies

Merry Christmas. Come on in and have a cookie. You can never have too many Christmas cookies around the house during the holiday season. So no matter if you are a beginner baker or a seasoned seasonal human cookie factory come take break from the flo...

No-Knead Bread (no kidding!)

You CAN make fresh homemade bread easily...  What I'm about to tell you does NOT involve a bread machine, and there's NO laborious kneading either! This lens will tell you how you can bake fresh, flavorful, healthy bread with an awesome crust, a...

Gadgets & Utensils

Having the right tool or appliance for the job can make cooking even more joyful, and efficient, but sometimes finding "just the right thing" can be daunting.
Our lensmasters have already done the research, and maybe thrown in a recipe or two...

cookie cutters

I've been baking cookies since I was very small.  At first, my mother handled eggs and oven doors and I managed the rest.   Messily.  I could read, a little, so I read which ingredients and how much and mixed them together. ...

How to use Chopsticks

You can do this!! Learn to wield chopsticks with style. There are many great tips below. I was taught by my Mother in Law with pieces of paper screwed up into small balls before being let loose into the world. My main tip would be that beginners shou...

Best Kitchen Tools 1: Graters & Zesters

Ever wonder what it takes to have a great, functional Kitchen? Cooking and baking can be a pleasure with the right tools! I have hand selected my very  favorite kitchen-tested tools, utensils and gadgets and share them with you here that you mig...

Seasoned Veterans at the Cook's Nook

A showcase of group member Lensmasters.

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Chef's Pantry

What should you stock in your pantry?

Here are some essential ingredients to always have on hand.

Salt :: The Gourmet Guide

The BEST barbecuing secret around, natural sea salts with incredible flavor, high potency minerals naturally!  Prepare your meats, vegetables and marinades with flavorful earth salts- no one will know how you do it! "Until recently salt was...

To Meat or Not to Meat?

An Ounce of Prevention

Potentially Life-Saving Information

MSG is Evil! - Monosodium Glutamate Hiding in Our Food

Whether or not you agree with me that MSG is evil, ya gotta admit it seems a little fishy when you find it in so many of our favorite foods. While there's no hard evidence yet that MSG actually causes obesity or neurological disorders in humans (just...

Heart Attack & Stroke Awareness

The holidays are a time of extra stress for many. This means an increased risk and incidence of medical emergencies such as Heart Attack and Stroke. Know the warning signs and save a life! ACT QUICKLY - SECONDS COUNT From the American Heart Associ...

FDA Food Recalls & Safety Alerts

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Out to Lunch

Looking for a great place to eat out?
Dine-in or Carry-out...

Kansas City Unique Eats

Travelling to Kansas City and wondering where to eat? Living in Kansas City and looking for a new place to go? Tired of the McTaste, that bland sameness of Anytown USA, INC.? Here's a look at some Kansas City Metropolitan area one-of-a-kind places to...

Epicurious: Daily Dish

What's cooking in the food world, plus where to eat and what to buy. A daily update.

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What's Cookin'?

Find fabulous recipies for all kinds of food & drink. Grouped here by type of cuisine.

Bon Appetite!

Recipe Box

Many of our lenses have recipes, but these lenses have recipes and cooking tutorials as the focus!

Looking for a certain type of cuisine?
International cuisines are grouped by category in the lenses to follow.

Various Recipes

I have a ton of recipes that I have collected over the years. I do not know where most of them came from, but I thought that I would share them with you. Happy eating!

Foodies Rejoice: Recipe Collections and other goodies

I admit it.  I'm a foodie.  I have a cookbook collection that exceeds 1200 volumes, and still growing. I read cookbooks like others read novels. And 5 PM sees me searching the net to find that perfect recipe for tonight's dinner. I'...

Food Wishes: Free Video Recipe Clips and Cooking Lessons

These video clips are from my food blog foodwishes.com. By watching these fun to make, and easy to follow recipes, I hope to inspire you to cook more at home. It's fun! Or, if not, just watch and enjoy.

Smorgasbord

These lenses don't really fit into any one category here but, one thing is for sure, it's all about food, drink, eating or cooking!

Easy Appetizers

Who doesn't love appetizers? Anyone? Anyone? I'd like to meet the person who doesn't! Don't you just love easy appetizer recipes that make your mouth water just thinking about them? I adore those tiny little packages of food that look so good and sm...

Best Beef Jerky, Beef Jerky Recipe, Buffalo Jerky, Turkey Jerky, Beef Sticks from Jerky Direct

With their secret, all-natural beef jerky recipe, Jerky Direct offers the best beef jerky, beef sticks, buffalo jerky and turkey jerky worldwide. Jerky Direct, a producer of healthy all-natural meat snacks, including beef jerky, beef sticks, buffalo j...

rachel's bite

working my way through new foods and recipes found in cookbooks, magazines, culinary novels, blogs and television shows one meal at a time. the culinary world is a large one - it's time to explore.

Mix-In-A-Jar/Gifts-In-A-Jar

In this Lens I will be adding Mix-In-A-Jar and Gift-In-A-Jar recipes for you to enjoy. These are a big hit with new homeowners, at Christmas time, or anytime you want to give someone a little something homemade.  I gave out mixes-in-a-jar at Chri...

Soup Is Good Food

I love soup - almost all kinds.  Soup can be such a comfort food, especially when the weather is cold.  Soup can also make you feel better when you are feeling a little ill.  Most soups are easy to make, and soup recipes and variations...

EzineArticles: Food & Drink

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International Cuisine

As cuisines of more countries are added, the flags will be added too, at least as long as there is reasonable space. Then maybe something different will happen!

Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern Cuisine

Flag: Ithaca, Greece

Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Persian, Turkish...

Katerina's Healthy Greek Recipes

They say that Mediterranean cuisine is the healthiest and I wouldn't disagree with that. I grew up in the beautiful island of Hydra in the Aegean Sea, Greece, eating nothing more than fresh fish, meet, fruits and vegetables using just pure virgi...

Greek Cooking

My grandfather ("papou" in Greek) was born in Skordalou, Crete, Greece. He came to the USA in 1912. Many years later, he bought a restaurant in Berkeley, California called the "F & M Grill". He ran it very successfully fo...

Caliente!

Mexico and Arizona, Colorado, Nevada & New Mexico (and maybe a little Cali-Mex & Tex-Mex, too!)

Southwestern and Mexican Recipes

Southwestern and Mexican foods are the "hottest" thing going these days. Whether you're interested in appetizers and dips such as salsas, guacamole and pico de gallo, main dishes like enchiladas, green chili stew and posole, drinks like...

American Pie

Find your favorite all-American standards here---sometimes with a new twist!
All regions here (except find Southwestern cuisine above with Mexican), until we run out of space. (Then we make regional modules!)

Lots of Down Home & Southern favorites...

Amish Recipes

There is a lot made of certain Amish recipes, and it seems that every Amish recipe book and site has the same ones. That list is so short that it is a miracle the Amish can survive on such a limited diet! The truth is that the Amish have far more rec...

How to Make the Best Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

There's nothing like a grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of tomato soup for comfort food.  Here are my tips for making the best grilled cheese sandwich.  Enjoy!

Real Cajun Cooking

No where in the world do people enjoy life and food the way the Cajuns down in South Louisiana do.  Food is almost like a religion and weekend gatherings always consist of tables full of mouth watering delicacies and ice cold alcoholic concoctio...

Sweet Potato

I love sweet potatoes! My favorite snack is Sweet Potato Pie! This lens is to share with you some recipes, stories and facts about sweet potatoes.

Look Who's at the Cook's Nook!

Just like those rotating dessert cases that tempt us with a brief view of what we can have and then move to the next treat, here is a rotating list of our featured Lensmasters.

KCStargazer, kab, giddygabby, KimberlyDawnWells, BusyMOM

What's Your FAVORITE "ethnic" Cusine?

Cookbook Library at the Cook's Nook

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Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

Just a great overall basic cookbook. Handy referen more...2 points

Just a great overall basic cookbook. Handy references for cooking times, measurements and kitchen tips, etc.2 points

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Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking by Julia Child

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Tofu 1-2-3 by Maribeth Abrams

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Cooking with tofu is an art in itself. Almost all of the recipes in this book do not look like tofu. Easy, fun, delicious.1 point

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Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day by Moosewood Collective

Winner of the 1995 James Beard Award for Best Vege more...1 point

Winner of the 1995 James Beard Award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook

Although many people think that cooking without meat means spending more time in the kitchen, the cooks at the world-renowned Moosewood Restaurant know this isn't so. Busy balancing home, work, and other commitments, they've been cooking for family and friends every day of the week for over twenty years. Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home is the result of that experience -- over 150 carefully honed and tested recipes calling for th...

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Thai The Essence of Asian Cooking by Judy Bastyra

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Gorgeous photos and a comprehensive illustrated glossary of typical Thai cooking ingredients make this a very useful guide to Thai cooking. The Gala...0 points

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