Recipe Book Online

Well, I guess I should explain why finding a recipe book online became a quest to begin with.

You might not be able to tell by looking at my profile picture, but I love to eat. Unfortunately for my poor wife, that's where my culinary expertise begins and ends. For awhile now, Paula (that's my lovely's name) has been asking me to learn how to cook.

I've been hesitant to do so because Paula is a wonderful cook and I know as much about cooking as Christopher Lowell does about NFL football. So in my mind I'd never had the need or desire to become the next Bobby Flay.

But 2 things have changed that have motivated me to take the dive into the unknown waters of culinary bliss:

First, we are having our 3rd little girl any day now, and I need to start stepping up to the plate and do my fair share of cooking duty.

Second, and maybe most importantly, the Microwave Meltdown happened. A couple of weeks ago Paula called me from the store and asked me to put on a pot of boiling water. I figured I could handle the task, and proceeded to very skillfully put a pot of water on a burner. Five minutes later, the house is filled with smoke, the smoke alarm is blaring, and flames had engulfed our over the range Microwave. I won't go into details about how it all went down, but I've posted a pic of the damage I caused.

I had to do some serious self reflecting and come to grips with the fact that my cooking is so bad that I couldn't even boil water without almost burning down my kitchen.

It was time for a change. It was time for redemption and to prove to myself and my ladies that I could figure out this cooking thing. It was time to get on the computer and search for a recipe book online.

So if I really was going to do this cooking thing, I needed to find a recipe book online with these 3 criteria:

1. The recipe book had to be easy to follow. A must, since I've proven I have the culinary I.Q. equivelant to that of Corky on that bad '90's sitcom.

2. The recipe book had to be affordable. I wanted to invest in a good recipe book, because it would make me more committed. If I just relied on free online recipes, I would have no skin in the game. Having said that, I didn't want to pay too much either. Plus, a lot of the free recipes online were either garbage or didn't have a collection of easy-to-make meals that I liked.

3. The recipe book had to have a variety of dishes. I knew if I got an online recipe book with just one type of cuisine, I would get bored and, or frustrated. I wanted to find a recipe book that offered a ton of different options and types of cuisines. My family also likes all sorts of different foods, so I didn't want to be pigeon holed to just one type of recipe book

After about of week of researching different recipe books online, I found the crown jewel, the mother of all recipe books. It was a weird feeling, because the only time I get excited about cooking or food is when there's a hot plate of something I love sitting in front of me. But as I read about this online recipe book, I was genuinely excited about the cool dishes I could start making.

It hit on all MY criteria for a good recipe book. This recipe book has easy set-by-step instructions, is affordable, and best of all it was loaded with recipes that I knew I'd love, because they were recipes for famous dishes at some of my absolute favorite restaurants like PF Chang's, Chili's, Red Lobster, The Cheese Cake Factory and many more.

America's Most Wanted Recipes was it. This would be the recipe book that would finally take me from a culinary dud to a gourmet stud :). I was a little cautious at first, because I saw a lot of other recipe books both free and for sale that claimed to have copy cat restaurant recipes. But after looking at all the options, America's Most Wanted Recipes by Chef Ron Davis was the real deal. It's the #1 selling online recipe book on ClickBank, it's sold on Amazon with magnifient reviews, and Ron and his staff havespent literally thousands of hours perfecting the recipes and made them easy to understand.

As I read all the different recipes and dishes from my favorite restaurants, I realized that for less than the cost of taking my little family to a night out at Chili's, I would literally have an encyclopedia of recipes of my favorite dishes!

I can take the plunge by cooking such things as PF Chang's Lettuce Wraps, Chili's Southwestern Egg Rolls, and Panda Express' Orange Chicken.

I've put the link to America's Wanted Recipes on my lens, so you can check out all the different dishes I'm going to be cooking. I'm really excited about all the different recipes they offer and hope you'll take the time to check them out yourself and continue to follow me on my culinary adventures.

Best of all this online recipe book is an E-book, so that means you can quickly download it and start cooking the delicious recipes right away. You don't have to pay for shipping, or clutter your kitchen with another recipe book. Just print up the recipes when you want to cook them.

You can go to America's Most Wanted Recipes page by clicking here.

Here's to good cookin' and keepin' the kitchen from burning ;)

Every week I'm gonna cook at least 1 dish from my new found recipe book and blog about my experience. In fact, to make it a little more interesting, I'm going to let the visitors of this lens pick which dish I will cook for my family.

I've put up a poll with 3-4 recipes that I'm looking at making. The poll is just below this post, so check it out and vote. After I cook the meal, I'll give you my feedback and take on how things went.