Monday, March 9, 2009

Find Recipes Online

By charlie reese

Our lives are filled with so many tasks and unavoidable deadlines to meet, there are lots of us who don't know a whisk from a spatula. The culinary arts are becoming a lost art among everyday people. After all, the supermarket shelves are filled with frozen prepared meals. All you need do is nuke it for a few minutes and you've got dinner. Fast food places are on every corner, so breakfast at the kitchen table is almost unheard of in the modern family's lexicon. Lunch is as close as the vending machine. You can buy an oven-ready pizza for less than you can produce it yourself and it's ready in minutes.

Now we're entering a new era. It requires work on someone's part to save you the time and effort of home cooking. Naturally, there's a fair price attached to this labor saving menu. Now, with rising food costs, we're all scrambling for ways to tame this monstrous food budget. More and more non-cooks are reconsidering their dislike of the home cooking process. You're paying a hefty premium for the time you save getting a meal on the table.

If you've simply become accustomed to the take-out, frozen and fast food meals, maybe it's time for a change. If you don't cook and never have, beyond the occasional sandwich or backyard barbecue, you might want to take up cooking as a hobby and get those food costs in the reasonable zone. But I don't know the first thing about cooking! Here's how to have some fun learning the art of cookery. You don't even have to buy a cookbook.

Finding recipes online is, well, a piece of cake. There are hundreds of thousands of recipe sites on the net. Many of these recipes are contributed by ordinary folk who have experimented with a pot roast recipe until it's a perfection of flavors worthy of entertaining fare. There are also message boards, where foodies exchange recipes online and give up the secrets that distinguish a genuine French chocolate croissant from that packaged imitator at the supermarket.

Take a look at the websites of the upscale food magazines. These gourmet food sites would like you to subscribe to their magazine, so you'll find incredibly detailed recipes online at their websites, featuring recipes that are of gourmet quality. These recipes are so good, you can be a gourmet cook " at least of that dish " in no time.

If, indeed, necessity is the mother of invention, the available recipes online are the proof of the pudding. Search out a recipe online for your favorite take-out dish. Grab an apron and go for it.

Cooking is a fascinating hobby with therapeutic and gastronomic benefits. A home cooked meal is one of the great joys of life. We just need to lose old mindsets and regain a true enjoyment of food and the experience of dining at home.

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