There must be 160,000 ways to use your leftovers

[rworange]

Found this leftover wizard where you can enter three ingrediants and it will search a database of over 160,000 recipes and return a list of recipes that use those ingrediants.

http://www.bigoven.com/ingredientwiza...

With apoligies to Paul Simon

"The problem is all inside your head, she said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free"

There must be 160,000 ways to use your leftovers

Reuse that lamb rack, jack
Make a new flan, stan
Use up that soy, roy
And get dinner free

[Glencora]

Thanks, I just tried this using mango, shrimp and rice and got three ideas. However the ad is really annoying.

[Robert Lauriston]

I get more hits using Google

http://www.bigoven.com/private/showpage.aspx?hidPageNo=0&hidPageCount=0&hidRecordCount=0&bb=1&ti=%20grapefruit%20chocolate
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&am...

[stevemur]

Thanks for the mention.

Be sure to check out the updated Leftover Wizard (which uses AJAX and progressively shows you recipe count) at http://www.bigoven.com/leftoverwizard2.aspx

A couple responses -- first, we'll check into the ad that may have been shown. (Ads keep our site free.) Note that the "showpage" URL posted for search results won't show what you get when you actually do the search, due to site design issues.

We think Google is a terrific source for searching the Internet and recipes in general, but where we go a bit further is in providing a consistent search process, an easy ability to search or eliminate tags, allowing people to post ratings and photos (and showing results by overall community score, thus bubbling up the best recipes over time), letting you build "Favorites" and Try Soon List (kind of like the Netflix Queue), allowing you to suggest recipes to your friends (which get added to their Try Soon Queues), and, for users of the optional Windows software, the ability to one-click import the recipes you'd like into recipe cards which can be dragged-and-dropped onto grocery lists and/or meal plans, Nutrition Calculation, etc. There's a lot more there (like buying tips and a Food Dictionary with buying/substitution/storage tips on over 1,000 ingredients)... just thought I'd jot a quick note.

Thanks,

Steve Murch
CEO & Founder
BigOven.com
http://www.bigoven.com
160,000 recipes