Reverse Internet Recipes

[Paulustrious]

We've all used google to find a recipe. Usually in the form: "cheese soufflé" recipe.

There is an alternative technique. Open the fridge and look what you have in it and do a search on your available ingredients.

recipe yoghurt leeks tomato onion lamb "cold polenta"

Some of the returned results will be lists of recipes which are useless. But there is usually at least one that will fall into the category of "Now there's a thought". It usually needs modifying because we don't have all the ingredients, but that's part of the fun. After all, we don't want to be General Chow Chicken.

[LindaWhit]

I've done that for years with both the Internet and my recipe software, MasterCook.

[Vetter]

This is sort of what I do with my Delicious.com account-- I tag my recipes by ingredients, so when I have a surplus of cream cheese or chipotle peppers or whatnot, I can search by that ingredient.

[sueatmo]

This post took me back. While I've never entered food ingredients into Google, I have entered them into the search engine Alta Vista. Seems a million years ago.

[ktb615]

You could also go to www.supercook.com. You can enter the ingredients you want, and it will check many of the major recipe sites and come up with all of the recipes you can make with those ingredients.

[yayadave]

nuther goodun! Hubba Hubba

[kattyeyes]

ktb615: Thanks for this--I just bookmarked it, too. The food bookmarks outnumber anything else I have saved at this point.

yayadave: Hubba Hubba made me smile. It used to be our official Friday WOOHOO song back in the early 90s (we used to voice mail it to each other). Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba!

[yayadave]

Sometimes good times and good ideas and good food happen on Thursdays, too. Hubba Hubba

[kattyeyes]

Here is my favorite Thursday good food idea/memory. I pulled it off when I was about 19 and temping at a local engineering place. I made a chocolate cake, frosted it with buttercream and made a little banner going across the cake that read, "Sure Happy It's Thursday"...then spelled out S H I T in M&Ms. It was a big hit at the office that day, but those were different times back in the late 80s! ;) My boss delighted in asking everyone if they wanted a piece of $#*+.

[pickledginger]

Thanks for that--just added it to my recipe site bookmarks.

[Cheese Boy]

Nice site. ... Thank you.

[LindaWhit]

nice site, ktb! Thanks!

[bayoucook]

neat website - love it - thanks

[Paulustrious]

Excellent. Even better idea.

[CocoaNut]

Back in the "old" days, perhaps even pre-internet, I bought an online (downloadable) version of a cookbook which supported that.

[bayoucook]

I've always done that on epicurious.com.

[yayadave]

Goodun!