I’m loving the blog For the Love of Cooking, a terrific collection of recipes with great pictures. I’m especially keen to try this recipe for Kung Pao Chicken, mostly because the picture is so appealing. Here’s an excerpt from the blog post, although you’ll have to go directly to For the Love of Cooking for the recipe:
My husband and I really enjoyed this meal. Since the dish was really spicy, I took some of the chicken and cooked it with teriyaki sauce for the kids - they really liked it. I served the Kung Pao chicken over white rice and with steamed broccoli on the side. It was a fantastic meal that was quick and simple to cook. I am so excited to trying cooking another Asian recipe soon.
While we’re on the subject of chicken, here are a few great ways to find more on Primo Recipes:
Poultry
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The site 101 Cookbooks is terrific. First, the recipes are consistently good, albeit of the healthy kind. Next, the photos - oh, the photos are exquisite, as you can see in the picture of buttermilk summer squash soup here.
I’m reminded of one of the things our research has told us about how people use the web for recipes. Specifically, many people print online recipes, and the current tools for doing this leave lots to be desired.
Primo Recipes takes a different approach. When you find a recipe you like on Primo Recipes, simple click on the “Print” icon in our toolbar (pictured here).
Primo Recipes reformats the recipe for you in any easy, consistent way - we even leave you room for notes and comments. This way, all of your recipe printouts will look consistent. If you put them in a binder, they’ll all make sense together. It’s a pretty simple idea, but it makes lots of sense. Give it a try.
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This Spinach Stuffed Pasta Shells recipes, posted on the Eliza Domestica blog, reminded me of all sorts of great things to do with noodles. Here’s a list of ingredients:
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 cups firmly packed fresh spinach, chopped
- 1/2 cup onion, diced
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 15-20 jumbo pasta shells
You’ll have to go to the Eliza Domestica blog for the rest. Meanwhile, try these great recipe searches using Primo Recipes:
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I’m not sure why, but I love cupcakes. There’s something about having my own serving of delicious cake - often beautifully decorated, usually big enough to satisfy yet small enough to avoid significant guilt - that seems absolutely perfect, whether we’re celebrating my daughter’s birthday or just enjoying a night on the patio with neighbors.
So it’s with joy and anticipation that I search for different kinds of cupcakes using Primo Recipes. Here are a few sample searches, all of which return loads terrific recipes, with the best rated and most reviewed first:
Chocolate cupcake
Yellow cupcakes
Carrot cupcakes
Birthday cupcakes
Strawberry cupcakes
What kinds of cupcakes do you like best? Please let us know!
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I’m really enjoy the Barbecue Master blog, full of great recipes for all sorts of things on the grill. This weekend, I’ve got barbecued pork on my mind, maybe in anticipation of the family coming to visit for July 4. The recipe I’m highlighting here is called Grilled Pork Loin with Jack Daniels Barbecue Sauce, and, as you can see from the picture here, it looks terrific. Cyndi Allison, who writes the blog, has a terrific, personable way of writing, including tips and tricks, products she uses, and general observations. Here’s a short excerpt:
Normally I grill by sight and touch, but it’s kind of hard to tell on bigger cuts of meat. I finally did what I should have done long ago and got a grill thermometer. It’s a Maverick Redi Chek Remote. It makes sense to use a thermometer, because you can’t really tell about the center of a bigger piece of smoked meat.
Check out the Barbecue Master blog, when you get a chance. You can also try Primo Recipes to search for grilled pork loin recipes, grilled pork chop recipes, and all sorts of grilling recipes that include bacon (which tends to make most food taste better) :-).
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Whitney in Chicago has an excellent recent post that describes the joys of Molly Wizenberg’s “A Homemade Life,” highly recommending the book for its wonderful stories, photos, and recipes. If the banana bread recipe posted in the blog is any indication, the book is totally amazing. Without giving too much of the recipe away (you’ll have to read Whitney’s post for that), here’s an excerpt of the blog:
As soon as I read the name of “Banana Bread with Chocolate and Crystallized Ginger” I knew that I needed to make it for my ginger-loving fiend of a boyfriend. I wouldn’t have ever thought to put little chunks of crystallized ginger into a quick bread but it is fantastic. This is a denser banana bread than the uber-moist variety that I have been making on a regular basis but it is very good. I took Molly’s suggestion of freezing the loaf after we have enjoyed a few slices and eating it cold, straight from the freezer. I almost like it better this way. I hope you try it because this recipe is a keeper.
I recommend reading Whitney in Chicago’s entire post. After that, search for banana bread recipes on Primo Recipes and see what you find. It’s a pretty great list.
Baking
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Wasn’t it just the other day that I posted a note saying that we had more than 400,000 recipes in our database? I should have waited a little while, as our technology team surged to bring in more, more, more!
We’re currently at more than 500,000 recipes (more than half a million) in our database, all from great recipe sites like Epicurious, Big Oven, and allrecipes.com, all displayed to you in order of best first. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
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Found this recipe on The Pioneer Woman, which looks absolutely amazing. Modestly titled simply “Another Pie,” this recipe - along with incredible photos (like the example here) - may well be THE pie recipe by which all others will be judged. With an amazingly simple list of ingredients, including Oreos, butter, cream cheese, and peanut butter, The Pioneer Woman beats whips, chills and serves a dish sure to impress kids, grown ups, guests - pretty much anyone with a sweet tooth.
A quick search for peanut butter pie recipes on Primo Recipes yields similarly exciting results. Give it a try.
Desserts
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Primo Recipes has recently added several more great websites - and tens of thousands of new recipes, reviews, ratings, and pictures - to our database. In addition to the sites we launched with (Epicurious, AllRecipes.com, Bigoven.com, and Foodnetwork.com), we’ve now added four more sites: RecipeZaar, Cooking.com, Myrecipes.com, and Bettycrocker.com.
Just look at this Chicken Satay results page - the top five recipes are from four different websites! We think there’s huge value in bringing all of this data together - do you? Please let us know.
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Just a short post to let you know that Primo Recipes is well on its way to becoming the biggest, best source of recipes online. Only a few short weeks after the release of our product, which displays great recipes from the best recipe sites on the web, Primo Recipes has nearly 400 thousand recipes in our database - and we’re constantly growing! This allows us to return terrific results for most any recipe search you can imagine - even very hard to find dishes like lobster rolls, dover sole, and shrimp spring rolls.
Please give it a try and let us know what you think.
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