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AMERICAblog: Americans are - gasp! - cooking at home because of economy

  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    http://allrecipes.com/

    Do a search by name and you get several recipes for the meal you're looking for. Unless I am cooking gourmet, I use this site.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    yes...great site....lotsa good comfort food recipes !!
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    grandma, they have a great French Toast casserole with orange extract. I made it for a baby shower for my daughter. It was a huge hit.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Karol...I tried to find the recipe for French Toast Cassrole with orange extract at allrecipes ...
    found several recipes but none that had orange extract.
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    I think I added the orange extract on my own. BRB
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    it's the first one. I doubled the recipe, put one tsp vanilla and one tsp orange extract. I served it with warm maple syrup and butter.
  • tacitus · 1 year ago
    I once read that while Brits eat out on average about one a fortnight, American's eat out on average four times a week. Admittedly, if you ate out that much in the UK, you would probably be bankrupt before the year was out, but still, it does show how different the cultures are when it comes to mealtime.
  • confa · 1 year ago
    Check out Mark Bittman "The Minimalist" at the New York Times Dining & Wine page. He also has a blog there called Bitten. He's good people.
  • RobertSanDimas · 1 year ago
    Yes! His short videos on the NYT site are really good! He has a sense of humor. He's very good, people. :) And fun.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    I like Simply Recipes too

    One of my favorite sites is The Pioneer Woman cooks......great comfort food and she is funny too..
    Her recipe for Apple Dumplings is fantastic and so easy.......all her recipes are great!!
    http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/

    Another good one..tho mainly vegetarian and desserts is 101 cookbooks:
    http://www.101cookbooks.com/

    Also...Fresh, hot, delicious food content served up daily....at serious eats (orignates from New York)
    http://www.seriouseats.com/

    And Foodnetwork.com....of course...

    also....Barefoot Contessa
    http://www.barefootcontessa.com/
  • catdance · 1 year ago
    Pioneer Woman is so much fun!

    I'm on a big fat diet, so I look at www.foodgawker.com every day. It's food porn.
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    For Gourmet and entertaining, I use this site. You need to sign in, but it is so worth it. Just say no to all promotions.
    http://www.epicurious.com/
  • Dianne_in_DC · 1 year ago
    This is one of my favorites, too. People can try the recipe and rate it along with suggestions for improving, whether they'd make it again, etc. The recipes are from Bon Appetit, which is also a fun mag to subscribe to. More recently I have been trying recipes from Nigella Lawsons' Nigella Express. After I was diagnosed with cancer and then laid off my job, I figured I should cook at home more often. I started a new job last week -- with Freddie Mac! Oh the ironies.
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    Dianne, are you going to be okay with Freddie Mac?
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    http://foodblogsearch.com/ ...is a good site too for searching for a recipe.
  • ecproject · 1 year ago
    I hadn't gone out to eat for months until the remnants of Ike ripped through Ohio last week and knocked power out almost everyone in my part of the state. The poor staff at Steak & Shake was overwhelmed. Only three servers and the line was outside the door, and they had to use bottled water to wash the dishes.

    Thankfully the power came back on at home after a couple of days and I could cook again.
  • Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago
    It is good unless you work in the food service industry. I am the guy that delivers the food you eat at restaurants. Gosh isn't it great how we are forced to eat hamburger helper. You know most people don't have a clue as to what cooking real food is about.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    Well it sure worries me too. I have a son who works at Applebee's as a cook. He is a good cook to. He has been there a very long time. He has one child. He already is paying high insurance for health care. The company has already switch insurance company a couple of times and the employees have to pick up that burden. He recently took his daughter to the doctor under this new insurance. His first visit he had to put out $200.00 and co pay $30.00. I don't know what is going to happen. We live in a rural area where there isn't alot of jobs. I pray he can keep his job. We all have to support one another. Even if we got out once a week. I pray things don't start falling more for the middle class and the working poor. They can't falling any lower. God help us all. Good luck everyone
  • risa87 · 1 year ago
    Who knew there was an up-side to all this economic turmoil?
  • editormom · 1 year ago
    There are 225 great recipes for dishes from simple stuff to fancy feasts, contributed by 96 editors from around the world, in More Food for Thought: An Editorial Cookbook. It just came out; I was the production editor for it. From the back cover:

    The CE-Lery (aka denizens of the Copyediting-L e-mail list) are some of the most intelligent, detail-oriented, and helpful people around. Of course, you'd expect nothing less than a fine and sure hand in the kitchen from such folks. In this cookbook, you'll find their favorite recipes for everything from Cheese Scones to Green Chile Bread Pudding, from Tomato Pie to "Mom's on Deadline" Tortellini, from Myke's Escargots a la Romaine to Plummy Mushrooms, from Moambe to Killer Jamabalaya ... and even recipes for potpourri and drain cleaners. Choose from 225 recipes provided by 96 contributors from around the world. Generous folks that they are, the CE-Lery are donating all profits from cookbook sales to charity.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    I rarely eat out and then only with a group of friends. I like my own cooking. I think I'm pretty good at it.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    I like my own cooking too....I know what's in it...lol
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    My son is a cook and where he works people know when he is working. They know his truck. If it's not there they stay away. He even has made up some of his own receipes and people love it. I love my son but some of his dishes am not crazy for but than again I am a picky eater. I don't like mayo, mustard or ketup. I don't like spicey foods. But he makes the best hamburgers.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Exactly!
  • gumbygirl · 1 year ago
    I like to go to big city newspapers and check out their food stories and recipes-you can get good recipes for local specialities. I also like epicurious and the food network sites.
  • PaulMorel · 1 year ago
    my fiancee knows all the best vegetarian food sites .. I need to point her to this thread.
  • Jamiein_Vegas · 1 year ago
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    yummy.
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    Want a great picnic menu?
    Woodland Bundles- smoked trout, bulgar and pine nuts in blanched romaine lettuce, rolled like tiny burritos. (made a day or hours before event. served cold)
    Cold duck, hard cheese, French bread, seedless grapes, Cabernet and something chocolate.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    What an elitist!
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    trout is elitist? Pine nuts? or is it the wine and chocolate? Come on, Busboy, you know your mouth is watering with this. lol
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Of course; but rednecks are trained not to eat that stuff. We still have some rules, you know...
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    Daddy was born in Indian Territory Oklahoma, as you know, Busboy.
    His favorite weekend lunch was what he called Oklahoma Round Steak sandwich - fried bologna.
  • Wesinoregon · 1 year ago
    So was my grandmother.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Been there, done that, AK, I put BBQ sauce on it while it's on the grill. Never had cabernet with it, though.......
  • kiki · 1 year ago
    We are all eating at home because we want to have some good food in us before they start radiating it and messing with animal genes. None of us will be eating after that. Bad enough we are getting food that poisons us and now they come up with that.
  • PhilipGraham · 1 year ago
    Yes! When I lived in Lisbon for a year, I wrote and cooked all day--what a way to live.
    Here's a great recipe--chard stuffed with risotto, shown in a video by the NYTimes' Mark Bittman! Delicious, versatile, and don't forget to make lots of it--this dish tastes great reheated . . .
    http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=790f904ce...
  • weaselsgirl · 1 year ago
    My favorite recipe site is allrecipes.com. It is simple and easy to use. I never follow a recipe to the letter, but try to look up several different ways and then kinda blend all together. I've learned how to make sweet/sour sauce, carne guisada, and several veggie dishes by researching the site. It's worth a look!
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    If it's money you want to be saving, then you might consider converting some of that lawn into a vegetable patch. There's nothing compares to a tomato fresh off the vine, sometimes I like to run my hand through the leaves just for the aroma they exude.
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    I think everyone is looking at website recipes! lol
  • bbock · 1 year ago
    One of the best and easiest sources for recipes is an unlikely source. www.marthastewart.com. Look for recipes from her Everyday Food magazine. (Or watch the show on PBS. Or get the magazine at the checkout lane.) The recipes are very easy to make, use only grocery store foods (no specialty items), and most take less than a half-hour to make. Really good!

    http://www.pbs.org/everydayfood/recipes/

    http://blogs1.marthastewart.com/dinnertonight/
  • Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago
    Fascism, are we there yet?

    http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

    Excellent research at the above website!
  • Wesinoregon · 1 year ago
    Easy one.
    One can mushroom soup and 1/2 can of water.
    Two chicken breast pan browned.
    Rosemary leaves.

    Do the chicken first, then add soup water and rosemary and cook til done. Simple and very good.
  • AdmNaismith · 1 year ago
    I prefer to cook so I know what goes into my meals.
    www.cookingforengineers.com is fun.
    www.allrecipes.com is a good place to find all kinds of recipes and a good place for research. If I'm looking to make a particular dish, I can find a dozen variations to get a sense of how it is generally prepared, and improvise from there.
  • AdmNaismith · 1 year ago
    www.cookingforengineers.com has a recipe for a chocolate cake and buttercream frosting that rivals anything you can buy in a French patisserie.
  • Zang · 1 year ago
    Taco salad.
    feeds 2 adults, but can stretch for 2 adults, 2 kids

    in 1 tbsn olive oil, brown 1/4 cup diced onions, 1/2lb ground beef/turkey, toss in cumin, cilantro, ground black pepper (i use lots) to taste

    while that is going, dice up 3/4 cup tomatoes, 1/2 cup bell pepper (green or red), more, 1/2 cup more onions, and shredded lettuce

    when meat is browned, toss in 1 tbsp ground chili pepper (not the hot-hot kind, the regular red kind - Texans toss it in everything more for coloring, like a spicy paprika)
    then dump in 1 can of ranch style beans (with or w/out jalapenos), cover on medium till beans are cooked, stir occasionally.
    (black beans, tabasco/pickapeppa and red bell peppers make a Caribbean variation)

    Presentation is key, this is sort of a buffet thing.
    Have on hand tortilla chips (NOT DORITOS, although it may work up north), and shredded cheese, plates, bowls for the chopped
    veggies, picante sauce, and sour cream.

    Crush up chips on plate (kids love this), put meat/bean mix on that.
    Move to the cheese, dabble that on to cover the mix.
    Move to veggies, take your share, no skimping.
    Top with picante sauce, dab on some sour cream.

    Done. Cooking/cutting time I have down to 25 minutes.
    Leftover veggies can be tossed together for a salad for later,
    I have never ever had leftover meat/bean mix.
    And make sure kids don't take too much cheese.
  • Asterix · 1 year ago
    I have a recipe for chocolate-zucchini cake--it's made by adding the zucchini pulp (after peeling and seeding) to the basic recipe. It's not bad at all--very moist. I have a recipe for chocolate-sauerkraut cake, but haven't had the nerve to try it yet.

    Zucchini's great stuff, particularly this time of year when the neighbors are trying to give away their baseball-bat sized monsters. You can make a mock apple pie with it--use the usual spices and sugar with lemon juice and sliced seeded zucchini. Or use it in place of potatoes when you make vichyssoise.

    I cook almost all of our (vegetarian) meals at home--eating out is rare. I bake all of our bread and even brew our own root beer and ginger ale.
  • beaumec39 · 1 year ago
    with chocolate in a recette, I am a goner......
    Have cooked at my home for ages, being on SSDI on the lower rung, have too.
    Frozen vegs, Trader Joe, and other places help.

    Keep up the good ideas Chris..
  • cheetos · 1 year ago
    Nobody has mentioned our favorite place to find recipes for any and everything imaginable - foodnetwork.com
  • avahome · 1 year ago
    How about sending some of that food and electrical power on down to the hurricane Ike victoms.....it's been an awful rough week with no end in sight. Also if you have some extra bales of hay....appreciated also as our cattle, horses, etc. have been without food way too long. Come on America please do what you can.
  • JustinGrimes · 1 year ago
  • Vicki_Christina · 1 year ago
    I love this post, Chris--lately when I can't stand the news on the political front, I head for food sites. I was going to mention smittenkitchen.com, but Jamie in Las Vegas beat me to it. It's a wonderful site, and each post links to previous delicious foods. Spending time there makes me feel like I'm sitting in my grandma's yellow kitchen again....

    Another favorite is http://www.davidlebovitz.com/. I saw David Lebovitz on a PBS program once, and immediately ran to the computer to find more. Chris, he lives in Paris and specializes in chocolate (and ice cream)!
  • The Tim Channel · 1 year ago
    How much is it gonna cost the American taxpayer to bail out the failing food service industry?

    How many mortgages could be completely paid off with 1.3 trillion dollars? Instead of just paying off the loans that are at risk (and charging back to the homeowner thru taxation over time) we are talking about GIVING these financial crooks 1.3 trillion with NO STRINGS ATTACHED? WTF?

    Enjoy.
  • teammarty · 1 year ago
    http://www.recipesource.com/

    you can search by ethnicity, or by type of dish.