Norwood CSA Food Co-op: Recipe Rut?

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Recipe Rut?

Have you found yourself stuck in the same routine when it comes to cooking food? Or are you not sure what to do with your radicchio? Thankfully, there are plenty of apps out in the technology world that can assist you with just a few clicks. Don’t worry most of the apps listed below are free of charge. If you are not interested in downloading another app, most of the apps listed have a website too. 

The below apps are in no particular order of preference. Descriptions are either directly from their site and/or other sites with their own reviews of the apps below.


1. Allrecipes: They have an app, a website, and it’s full of recipes. What’s great about the app it has a feature calls the Dinner Spinner. Dinner Spinner, allows you to choose the main ingredients you want to use, the type of dish you’re making and your time limit. It then gives you plenty of options and a list of ingredients to add to make your breakfast, lunch or dinner!


2. Epicurious: “It’s a Condé Nast Digital site, is the most award-winning food site on the web, incorporating more than 30,000 professionally tested and created recipes from the premier brands in food journalism, renowned cookbook authors, and celebrity chefs, as well as 150,000 member-submitted recipes. Each day, original content from Epicurious editors and leading food authorities around the world is published. Epicurious offers a wealth of articles and videos focused on cooking, entertaining, wine, cocktails, dining out, health, and shopping.” And now they have an app to make your life simpler.


3. Supercook: “Why go buy lots of ingredients just for one recipe when you can find the perfect recipe using what you already have at home? Supercook is the unique reverse recipe search engine to help you do just that.


Using Supercook is like having a super chef in your own home - challenged to cook a delicious meal using only the ingredients you have, except Supercook has over 600,000 recipes in its repertoire! 


Supercook is also a practical way to save money. Take full advantage of ingredients you already have, and naturally buy less groceries.”


4. Big Oven: “With BigOven, you can take your recipes anywhere, make grocery lists and easily share your favorite creations with your friends, family or even your future self when you need them, BigOven was the first recipe app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, and has been downloaded over 13 million times, with over 3.3 million registered members.”


5. My Fridge Food: “Easy recipes using ingredients you already have in the kitchen.”


Bonus App: Kitchen Wizard!


What apps or websites do you use?


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