Do you check the web for new dishes?

Yes, i usually just save the recipes if i normally have thoses things on hand. My daughter and i was shopping a few weeks ago. She saw a recipe on tv and has been looking all over for this certian type of fish. I told her why dont you just use a different fish. She says because dr somebody on tv said it was that kind of fish. Personally i would have just choose another fish already or just didnt do the recipe at all.

When I read a fish recipe I check if they are made with the light white fish or with the oilier ones. That´s enough for me as fish goes. It´s just like I do when I put the clothes in my washing machine: white means many colors that will not fade or dye the rest of the clothes.

I can understand that about lots of ingredients. I also skip those and the recipes that have ingredients that you have to go to another planet to get them. I do make some recipes where some ingredients I don´t have can be changed for those that are usually in my pantry.

The web is rwally helpful when you want to gat new ideas for dishes you want to make. Besides, they look so tempting as the pictures are beautiful.

yes, those pictures of dishes on the net looks beautiful and delicious. It's a bit of a pressure to copy it exactly as it is pictured on the net . But for new dishes, i would usually cook only enough amount, until i have proven it to be indeed delicious.

I agree with you on that, one television show that concentrates a lot on how dishes are presented is Master Chef, which is a television show, but at least some of the episodes I've seen they always mention presentation.

I have learned a lot of things by looking for recipes at the web. I tend to change recipes a bit because I will not go shopping for special ingredients, but only use what I have. But the presentation of the dishes is so beautiful that it has changed my way of bringing the food to the table when there are guests.

Children are often more picky than adults. But I have had good results with my grandchildren by asking them to try a spoonfull of a new dish each time and, if they don´t like it, I can give them a dish they like. I have always at my fridge some good meal I know they witll like, like a sace for pasta.

I´ll do it this evening, siri. I love to read new recipes. They inspire me.

Hi did you cheek that? did you find anything interesting?

Sometimes checking at the web will let you do a better dish with the ingredients you have. I use a site where I can ask for a dish with my ingredients, if I want it to be a ain dish and if there´s an ingredient I cannot eat.

Yhe web is very helpful when you want to get new ideas for dishes you want to make. Besides, they look so tempting as the pictures are beautiful. But you are right: looking at wonderful dishes makes you hungry.

I used to see a cooking show three or four years ago, when I had a shoulder problem and stayed at the house all Summer. I learnt how to cook sushi then. I felt very proud when I made my first sushi. I don´t do it much now, but then I was happy to have something to do.

I love epicureous and allrecipes. But sometimes, when I´m looking for a certain dish, I just write it on a search engine.

Quiches are easy to make and they can be filled with almost anything. The one I like best is the fried onion quiche. But the ham and chesse, the artichoke hearts and the spinach quiches are awesome too.

I´m sure your mother is the best person to teach you the essentials. Then, later, you can add your own twit learned from books and the web.

I checked online for the crockpot (I have never seen one)and decided I will not buy one if they sell it here. It seems the the pot ends up with the vitamins of the veggies. Check on it: you might want to add the veggies at the last moment.

And can´t you change a bit your vegetable recipes? I like to change the way I make my veggies and I´m always discovering something new there.

I generally follow recipes for sweet things. But I love to check the main courses and even salads or soups and many times I find a nre awesome ingredient to add or a nice presentation with the pictures online.

My cooking bible is also "The joy of cooking". I´ve had it for ages and got one for each of my daughters when they got married as a special gift from me. The "Joy" has everything you can imagine and then some. I feven found once a recipe that made me laugh nonstop. A couple of years ago I decided to try my hand with squids as I had only eaten them at fancy restaurants. Please, read the squid part. I won´t tell you more: you have to read it yourself. I also dislike the kind of recipes that have a mixture of cans or packages. I like the real cooking from scratch and there are only a few items that I accept canned. I can only think now of tuna and condensed milk.

Love...love...love that book! And I so, can't wait to read the squid part....and share a laugh with you! How truly thoughtful, of you...to give the "Joy of Cooking" as newlywed gifts, something to be savoured and treasured forever! My about to be; daughter-in-law would truly love a copy of the first edition of the "Joy of Cooking"...and we truly don't realize what a treasure we are holding! I am finding FIRST EDITIONS on the internet at well over $100.00 Cdn--in poor condition! Now I wished I hadn't got all the slops on mine..LOL! Internet recipes...have often been a bug-bear of mine, Marguicha! So many of them are a package of this..or that! NO..NO, I am a scratch cook, like you! It could be in my head...but I always taste chemicals (or something --OFF) from all packaged mixes or foods! Even tho' it might seem wasteful...I don't even buy a Ham, unless it has the bone in...as the bone stops them from infusing it full of nitrosamines and nitrosalines! I have compared them...after cooking and taking the bone out, I get much more meat, pound for pound with the bone in....and the bone makes a wonderful soup! Gosh, I got way off subject, didn't I! I truly hope (and do pray, daily) that each day is brighter...in all ways!

It wasn´t a squid, it was an octopus. Sorry, it´s my English. Please imagime my kitchen sink, the the octopus there and me wanting to know how was I going to cook it. I know they have to be cooked in a certain way so they are tender. So I went to the shelf where my cookbooks are, took out the "Joy" as I knew that there you can get everything to eat under the sun. I will note quote what I read: please look up in octopus instead of squids. Sorry, luv.

When you have the name of the dish you want to check, it is easier. But sometimes you just want to browse the different possibilities for ideas.

At the web we may find many times videos showing step by step ways of doing a dish. I sw once the making of a salad and staed looking at it because it was so beatifully explained.

I´m sure you have what it takes to be a good cook You are interested in learning and you watch every place or person that can help you learn. Good for you!!!

I have seen videos at the web showing how to prepare beautiful salads. I´m sorry you are allergic to sun. I love sun but know some people who have to stay away from it. Salads are good when the weather is too hot. And you might cook some chicken (you put it in the pot and return when it´s done). I use cold cooked or roasred chicken a lot in hot weather, with salads and olives.

You just type salads+video and search at the web. As for cold cuts, I mean you cook or bake the chicken the normal way (you don´t have to be at the kitchen while it´s cooking, thewn cut the heat and let it cool. Serve cold with lettuce, tomatos, feta cheese or the like, olives, or whatever mixture you like. I use baby kale and arugule too as I hve it in my house.

yeah, it is really horrible I have to stay away from sun. heat makes my skin hmm, how would you say that, it makes me have chikenpox-like-redspots all over my body. _

I have some sites that send me recipes to my mail. I save them and I immediatly make some dishes that look awesome to the eye. I get allrecipe and epicureous all the time