DO you like reading recipes on the net or on the books?
By hotsummer
@hotsummer (13837)
Philippines
June 28, 2009 10:51pm CST
I prefer to use books when i have the book to read on. but when i don't find it in the book i will usually search on the net. but having a book for cooking is much better and give me more pleasure to hold a book and look it up there and look at those beautiful pictures of those food. it is good to put on stand or on display those cooking books cause they beautify my place.
What about you. do you still love reading recipe books?
7 responses
@mermaidivy (15394)
• United States
23 Jul 09
I would orefer reading recipe in the book, looking for recipe on the internet is convenient though; once I want to make something then just type and search. But I sitll like to have a real recipe book with pictures and step explanation. it is nicer.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
24 Jul 09
yes that is true. i was reading a recipe some minutes back and i will try to follow some recipes there. i hope that my old oven is still okay. i have to clean it first cause it used to have rats staying there at night. cause my oven was outside our house. but outside the door but still inside our place. like it. like at the back of the house. anyways, i will have to clean it first ha ha.
i will bake some chicken and some fish fillet. i prefer fish fillet cause it is healthier.
@meatballseven (10)
• United States
22 Jul 09
I personally like to read recipes from old cookbooks. I'm talking ear 1900s. I'm Greek, and my family and I like to keep our old country foods constantly on the dinner table. It seems to me that many of the "greek" foods I find on the internet, have been compromised in a way that takes away from it's origins back in Greece. I'm sure it's the same for anyone that enjoys cooking ethnic food. But on the other hand, the internet is like the entire sum of human knowledge so looking for recipes on it is often enlightening. You get recipes of all kinds and your not limited to and couple hundred pages in a cookbook you have at home.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
23 Jul 09
that is great that you have learned to cook your own country food. i know a little in cooking our own local food. but i just try to choose to cook those that are healthy and not any more cook those that needs lot of meats. i admire greek cooking cause they adhere to what is healthy and that is why i think that greek cooking is one famous international food recipes for health lovers.
@deejean06 (1952)
• United States
29 Jun 09
Hi hotsummer...I do like reading cookbooks and actually made a recipe from one of mine this past weekend. There are some times that I see something on tv and then I look up a recipe on the internet. However I love looking at the cookbooks just like you do and choose books over the internet any day.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
2 Jul 09
if not money is not the issue books are great. but internet saves us money. anyways, the beautiful pictures really makes us want to follow a recipe though we have no idea how it will taste like at first. anyways, now someone is cooking at our home. i don't use cookbook as of now. i just tell the cook what i wana eat. and so i will just learn from the cook how to cook the particular menu. but for hotel like menu i still use books and also the internet also.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
5 Jul 09
Hi hotsummer, I prefer to use cookery books, especially my old favourites which I return to again and again. I love to have nice glossy pictures in them too. I think only the odd time I have checked a recipe on the internet. I keep a seperate notebook to just the name of the cookbook next to the dish I enjoyed as I can't always remember which book it came from. I also write in the cookbooks if I think some kind of improvement will be made to the recipe so I can cook it more to my taste.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
23 Jul 09
glossy pictures are really the first thing that makes me want to pick up a cook book in the bookstores. they are easily noticeable and very nice to look at again and again. just for the picture itself sometimes i buy the book as long as it is not that expensive. and i keep many times for the pictures and even though i have no plan to try out those menus inside the book.
@Preciousgem (1182)
• Philippines
29 Jun 09
I use read recipes in the book many of my book are about recipe, i usually try to cut it out and read it, i collected to many form articles, magazine, and even on the label of food to learn something new from reading it.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
2 Jul 09
i like collecting too recipes. but the problem is i don't get to do them . mostly those i do are those something i have on my books. i can't seem to keep those i have cut off from newspapers and magazins.
@flydanman (111)
•
29 Jun 09
I prefer books. Usually there is an accompanying picture which helps but to be published in a book the recipe usually is well explained and tastes good! A lot of recipes on the internet can be submitted by anyone so the quality is not always of a good standard. It's always nice to have a good book collection too.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
2 Jul 09
yeah i love pictures. sometimes i would cook cause the picture was so lovely to look at and very appetizing it seems. but when i cooked the same ting it will not be as appealing or delicious as i thought it would be. still i love the pictures but i won't recommend it to anyone to do that too.
@bookreadermom08 (5614)
• United States
23 Jul 09
I love to look at magazines and cook books to give me ideas... the funny thing is because I am quite picky with my eating I use the recipes to give me ideas and I make my own version of the foods that I read. I also dont mind finding them on the net as well... I will go to food network.com alot to get ideas from there as well when I am stumped and want to try something different.
I have used alot of Rachel Ray recipes and hubby has liked how alot of them turned out....LOL 
Happy mylotting. 
I have used alot of Rachel Ray recipes and hubby has liked how alot of them turned out....LOL
Happy mylotting. 