Where do you go to find your recipes?

America's Test Kitchen is pretty good, they go into the how and why of things in a way that's really helpful if you don't already know how to do things like "blanching" or "caramelizing" or "deglazing". I'm a big ol dummy and it's nice to have your hand held sometimes :)

Public Domain Recipes
FOSS recipe list with very basic UI

It's not the answer you're probably looking for but, my cookbooks. I happen to have a bunch of old cookbooks I've inherited from family members and friends. It takes some research skills sometimes, but it works.

I also maintain a personal blog site which is my online cookbook. It's not only my own recipes, but also a link dump. When I find a good, non-AI article I'll share it there like a clipping with the usual tags for how I catalog things. It takes a bit of discipline, but for me its second nature by now. It also lets me take notes on how a recipe worked out, and what substitutions or adjustments I'd like to make next pass.

honestly... pinterest. it has led me to some cooking blogs i never would have known about otherwise. there's one site i really like though and subscribe to via rss, Budget Bytes.

i also am subscribed to some magazines through my library on Libby: Cooks Illustrated, Food Network Magazine, Vegan Food & Living, Bon Appetit. Getting them digitally makes it easy to screenshot the ones I wanna try out.

also sometimes when browsing in the bookstore or library i'll just flip through a cookbook and take pics of the recipes i want with my phone to put in my digital cookbook later.

I always check recipetineats.com first

Also I have started building a federated recipe site (well... Very early stages), so hopefully, one day, there.

Public service reminder: Your local Library carries cookbooks. When AI has destroyed cooking, get a Library card.

Never had loveandlemons.com let us down.

I mainly get them from YouTube and their resppective websites. My favorites are:

Babish Culinary Universe (Everything)
Pailin's Kitchen (Thai)
Sheldo's Kitchen (Sotheast Asian)
Brian Lagerstrom (Baking and American)
Curries with Bumbi (Indian)
Hanbit Cho (Baking)

Eatingwell has been my go-to lately. I see lots of things that look enticing from triedandtruerecipe on imgur, too.

Check out this riggies recipe. You won't be disappointed.

No recipes - heavily Japanese influenced since he's from Japan but a ton of great recipes from around the world

Damn delicious - love her spam fried rice but a lot of great Asian / pacific islander inspired dishes

Half baked harvest - a bit of everything but very garden to table inspired

if you're looking for baking stuff, King Arthur Flour has a lot of good and reliable recipes (and if you have problems, a help line, heh.)

But generally, I find them on the internet or wherever. I'm not a fan of allrecipes or other recipe aggregates. I generally don't trust YT recipes unless they're someone whose got some chops, so to speak. (rando content creator recipes make me cry harder than onions.)

I'll also pass on any recipe touted as "easy" or similar. Not because I don't like easy, but because a lot of times they take dubious shortcuts or add things that don't really belong. For example, you really should use a ham hock for your pea soup. (or at the very least, pork/bone broth,) yes, it takes time. yes, it maybe more complicated. But it's not nearly as good otherwise... and it's not that difficult, really.

Budget bytes is a pretty good site. Especially if you are looking to save money.

I honestly don't use recipes. I cook the food until it's done and put whatever seasonings I enjoy in it.

Google what I want. So far so good. I've had consistently good results with Allrecipes and BBC food.

Marginalia is good for this. It can be hard to find recipes with very specific requirements, but I've bumped into so many cool personal websites with recipe collections just by searching for "[name of one ingredient I want to use] recipe".

Some websites found that way:

• https://urchin.earth.li/~aendr/recipes/
• https://jessey.net/recipes/
• https://pikemalarkey.neocities.org/recipes
• https://caolan.uk/kitchen/recipes/
• http://biobug.org/recipes/
• https://grimgrains.com/site/home.html

It is definitely getting harder. I've been hitting YouTube looking for actual people.
Pasta Grammar
Tasting History
De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina
Pasta Grannies
Hatice Oncel

Some guy named Alton Brown recently started posting videos. He only had two up so far but he shows promise.

I don't tend to cook what they are but I do get inspired between them and what I have on hand.

When I know exactly what in looking for I search and look at a few recipes and see if they pass the sniff test or not based on the photos and ingredients. Like are they mixing in a different bowl in two different pictures? Dl

Books.

Find your local used book store and see what they have.

Just made these today, first time making one of his recipes, would recommend.

More generally, we've got some blogs we've followed for enough years to trust. Koreanbapsang.com, rainbowplantlife, pickuplimes, chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com, and some others. But all of those we followed before ai slop became viable

Generally I just wing it, have been cooking so long I can develop my own recipes for most things. But sometimes I do have to look for tips, and will read recipes for inspiration.

Food:

Bon Appetit

Recipe Tin Eats

Boy who Bakes

Perfect Loaf

Food and Wine

NYT Cooking

Cocktails:

Punch

Imbibe

Just search, and run across other recipes in links of current ones.

There are certain cooks who I'll check occasionally (chef John at foodwishes.com, Nick Stellino).

I also have some cookbooks: the cooking bibles (Joy of Cooking, Gourmet). America's Test Kitchen cookbook for standards to start from.

Otherwise I do a search and see the person's actual site. If there's AI generated crap, I just never go back.

Bad Manners / Thig Kitchen, they had a website which now seems to be gone, but there are also cookbooks, both paper and ebooks. It's vegan but they're some of the best recipes I tried, vegan or not.

My most used resource in the kitchen is a culinary school textbook. Plenty of recipes in there if I feel like challenging myself, also good if I forget how to do something simple like how long to poach an egg for or how to make bernaise sauce. Probably can get one used for hella cheap, it doesn't really need to be the latest edition anyway.

Internet-wise, check out the Marginalia search engine.

It's good if you already know what you want to cook, and are just looking for a recipe. Marginalia is focused on indexing old blogs and stuff written by humans, and has tools that allow you to filter out blogspam and recipes that exist only to push affiliate links.

I prefer to avoid popular cooks and cooking websites because they structure their recipes around engagement and polished images & video work, and it's aggravating. 90% of the time all I'm looking for is 15 lines of information. I don't want to click that bell, I don't want 4K slow-mo shots of someone cracking eggs to chill lo-fi beats, I want a recipe.

Deb Perelman's blog is incredible. She's a delight, and any recipe I've tried has been a hit.

YouTube has been most reliable for me. If you see someone showing their process/results and multiple people do it the same way, that's a pretty good indication that it's worth trying out.

Any recommendations for a site with metric units?

Thirding / Fourthing Budget Bytes. Also, I love Fattributes. I'm pretty sure it's someone's personal recipe dumping ground, but there's usually something new every couple of days and they tag EVERYTHING so it's easy to search. I've found a lot of blogs there that I might not have known about otherwise. Also, they're very much against AI-generated slop!

Sonic cookbook tonight

I do a websearch in this format:

simple recipe

I likely will always have a couple of missing ingredients so a simple version has a higher likelihood of me being able to make it.