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What's your go-to when you need a recipe?

America's Test Kitchen, Epicurious sometimes, Serious Eats, and then just Google searching for random blogs and finding ones that look trustworthy (IE, doesn't talk about how hubby loves it, not principally a lifestyle blog, able to talk about the basic concept of the dish and the purpose of different steps, often written by someone from the culture in question).

I was thinking about it and I wanted to write some more about what I'm looking for.

The thing is, when I'm looking for recipes, it's not so much the specific details and amounts I'm looking for. What I'm trying to get is a clear understanding of the underlying concept of the dish, and which steps are most central to that, and any important tricks or things like that - and then an understanding of the various methods and variations you can go between and what effect they have on the final dish. And I'm also mostly oriented around how the final dish tastes, not so much authenticity or anything like that. That's really what I'm trying to get at, so I am heavily tilted towards things that provide that kind of explanation - thus Serious Eats and ATK.

Also another source that I use sometimes is Gawker's old Foodspin series: http://foodspin.deadspin.com/the-foodspin-archive-1562788149

It is overwritten - really, pretty shockingly overwritten - but once you get past that it is a pretty good source of basic food recipes that's very focused on taste and very good at explaining the purpose behind the different steps.

The BBC, haha. I'm rarely interested in trying new things, so I always just log in for a refresher on how to make old recipes.

I have a lot...

http://smittenkitchen.com/
http://joythebaker.com/
http://www.thesugarhit.com/
http://food52.com/recipes
http://www.taste.com.au/
http://thecakedcrusader.blogspot.com.au/
http://thewoksoflife.com/
http://www.howsweeteats.com/
http://www.notquitenigella.com/

I usually go with the first thing that pops up when I google the type of dish I'm going for.

The one with the best reviews on Google.

Matprat.no which is a website run by the Norwegian Information Bureu for egg and meat, *insert joke about Norway having an Information Bureu for litelarly everything here*

I was hoping there was an English version of the site, but no such luck. It is quite practical, got everything you might need and has loads of options to figure out what you can do including just searching with one ingredient in mind and it suggests meals you can make with it.

Edited 2016-03-27 21:16 (UTC)

I go with Mark Bittman if I can find something, I really should just buy one of his books because all his recipes have turned out great for me.

Buzzfeed's actually really good at aggregating different recipes by a specific theme.

Really? From the few times I've looked, it always seemed like the problem was they had a lot of recipes but they weren't really that good.

I have found some really good recipes through buzzfeed but it takes a lot of random digging. I have also found some disaster recipes.

this isnt a recipe blog, but i like going to this food blog

http://permanent-error.tumblr.com/

I find a lot of great new recipes at Tastespotting, which aggregates many food blogs. I just HATE the search options, and that you can't search within your saved links.

The 'Better Homes & Gardens Cook Book' that my mom got me when I was getting married, back in '85. (She had one, too, from when *she* was married in '59.)

It can always give me basics like amounts and cooking times and techniques, and I'll generally just go on from there, or look up the same recipe online to see what other variations people have made, usually at Allrecipes.com

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