Get in the Kitchen and Google Me Some Dinner!
Unless I have a crave-specific dinner in mind, nine times out of ten, making dinner is more of a mish-mash of experiments than system and a recipe. I am even less motivated on the night I come home late to find Jacob on the couch eating frozen pizza [Swoon]
A typical evening goes something like this...
1. Look in Fridge/Cabinets.
2. Groan, remind self to grocery shop, pace between cabinets and fridge.
3. Look again with fingers crossed that dinner has appeared.
4. Ponder what can be done any of the following with leftover chicken, handful of peanuts, a lime, one half-eaten bowl of tabouleh, some yogurt, and/or an onion.
5. Throw things together, saute feverishly, taste, spice as necessary, add wine.
6. (a) Sulk OR (b) celebrate
This great site, from ResearchBuzz.org, knocks two (maybe three) steps off my culinary adventures and hopefully increases my success ratio exponentially.
The culinary impaired (or at least ingredient-limited) can plug in the fixings on hand and the site searches Google.com for recipes containing said ingredients. It even categorizes by cuisine (i.e.. Vegetarian, Atkins, World Cuisine) for those who have the luxury of being specific. Hopefully, further innovation on this site will allow you to exclude ingredients, just in case your discriminating dining partner hates tomatoes, onions, and seafood.
Unless I have a crave-specific dinner in mind, nine times out of ten, making dinner is more of a mish-mash of experiments than system and a recipe. I am even less motivated on the night I come home late to find Jacob on the couch eating frozen pizza [Swoon]
A typical evening goes something like this...
1. Look in Fridge/Cabinets.
2. Groan, remind self to grocery shop, pace between cabinets and fridge.
3. Look again with fingers crossed that dinner has appeared.
4. Ponder what can be done any of the following with leftover chicken, handful of peanuts, a lime, one half-eaten bowl of tabouleh, some yogurt, and/or an onion.
5. Throw things together, saute feverishly, taste, spice as necessary, add wine.
6. (a) Sulk OR (b) celebrate
This great site, from ResearchBuzz.org, knocks two (maybe three) steps off my culinary adventures and hopefully increases my success ratio exponentially.
The culinary impaired (or at least ingredient-limited) can plug in the fixings on hand and the site searches Google.com for recipes containing said ingredients. It even categorizes by cuisine (i.e.. Vegetarian, Atkins, World Cuisine) for those who have the luxury of being specific. Hopefully, further innovation on this site will allow you to exclude ingredients, just in case your discriminating dining partner hates tomatoes, onions, and seafood.
5 Comments:
You can already exclude ingredients. It works the same way it would with any other Google search; just put a minus in front of the ingredients you want to exclude. If you want to use that chicken and peanuts, but Jacob doesn't like tomatoes or onions, your search would look like this:
chicken peanuts -onions -tomatoes
Thanks for your interest in Cookin' with Google! Glad you like it.
Tara
ResearchBuzz
Thanks for the tip Tara. I did a little experimenting last night and I am impressed. Great Idea!
Another great site is www.CookingByNumbers.com. Click on what you've got, and it tells you EVERYTHING you can make. It's a bit of a pain to sift through "Fried egg. Egg sandwich. Omelet. Hard boiled egg..." but it's not so bad if that's pretty much all you eat anyway...
I've used CookingbytheNumbers, but have the same caveat. Also, the recipes tend to be both on the boring side and things I would haven thought of on my own.
But thanks!
Hey now, I don't hate seafood. In fact, I like about all of it when it's uncooked. It's just seafood dishes that I don't eat a lot of.
Tomatoes and onions, on the other hand, can go straight to the underworld.
-- Jacob
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