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Ingredients.com
A website that will tell you what you can make with the ingredients you have available. | |
I'm not the world's greatest cook, and I typically have a random assortment of produce, meats, spices in my fridge that I don't know how to combine well. When I just look in my cookbooks, I find that I am often missing a key ingredient (or 6). I'd like it if there were a webpage that allowed me to
punch in that I have 4 artichokes, and then would ask me a series of guided questions like "Do you have butter?", "Do you have bacon?" and then spit out a series of recipes that I could make with the ingredients I have at hand. This way, I can use my miscellaneous turnips, fava beans, etc, and hopefully learn creative new recipes.
I realize this is similar to the Cooking with Nothing post, but I would rather be questioned as to what I have available -- the idea of entering in (and maintaining) an inventory of my fridge and pantry would take me off the whole idea most likely. I want fast and easy.
Recipe Finder by ingredients
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/
.. this website allows you to search for recipes with given ingredients [jonthegeologist, Nov 23 2004]
Cooking by Numbers
http://www.cookingb...ers.com/frames.html
This does exactly that [ywong, Dec 05 2004]
AllRecipes Ingredient Search
http://allrecipes.c...ch/Ingredients.aspx
Search Recipes by Ingredient(s) [paix120, Feb 27 2009]
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For the last week, I've been playing Kitchen Cabinet Roulette. I haven't bought dinner or ingredients and have just been using whatever I have lying around - - cans of creamed corn, string beans, raman noodles, et cetera. I made biscuits and gravy last night with frozen breakfast sausage, butter-flavored crisco, flour, and water. |
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I think that my meal would have been better with this site. [+] |
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Hello Jenny Unique Selling Point, welcome to the 'bakery. |
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May I take this moment to draw your attention to the "Cooking With Nothing" idea in this very category which is veeery similar to what you have suggested. |
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Edit: I had read Cooking With Nothing as working rather like a search engine, as opposed to a database which requires maintenance. In that light, your idea is different only in relation to the process of entering the ingredients you have into the site forms. |
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If I was being asked if I had ingredients x y z and found myself having to answer no repeatedly, perhaps seeing the dwindling of the number of possibilities represented with each negative answer, until I ended up preparing a meal of mustard-coated Dairy Milk, I would become quite depressed. However, most people are able to stock their larders better than I and may prefer the range of recipies being presented in a more "does this tickle your fancy" stylee. |
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I've seen this exact same idea posted before. I think the poster acknowledged the [mfd]baked tags. Foodtv.com had a whole section for this, I don't know if they still have it, though. |
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They don't have that section anymore, or at least I can't find it with a five-minute search. So [+]. |
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this website exists. its called google. type in your ingredients plus the word 'recipe'. If you dont get any hits... phone a chinese. |
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What the hell is that supposed to mean? |
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you talking to me <bris>? I was merely pointing out that Google does this for you. Type in the ingredients and google searches a squillion (approx.) recipe websites. Well thats what I do. |
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I suspect she meant the 'phone a chinese' bit. I know that's the part I'm wondering what the hell it was supposed to mean. |
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My guess: typed "a" instead of "in". At the point that no recipies match the contents of your fridge it's time to call to have food delivered (chinese food, in [ether]'s case). |
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I agree with [jenny]'s arguement that it's cumbersome to try to type all of your ingredients in. |
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Phone a chinese take away is what I meant. If you cant make a recipe out of the contents of your fridge. |
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I say, buy a wok and some peanut oil, stir fry whatever is left in your refrig. Authentic Chinese. |
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Is stir fried jam and budweiser Cantonese or Szechuan? |
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well I hope you can come up with some rice at least., Cantonese. there's beer or wine in my fried rice recipe. |
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I have rice crispies. Steam or fry them? |
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fry, uumm I can taste the goodness already. |
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<chuckles to self about trans-atlantic confusion over phoning a chinese> |
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Yeah, I couldn't get why everyone was so confused. What do they say in America? |
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Not sure [etherman], but I imagine it goes something like this: |
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<accent = american (general)> |
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"Hey dude, I've looked in the fridge, we only got Jell-o, twinkies, and mall-rat" |
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"Darn-tootin' cowboy, guess I'm gonna gotta call me in some o dat 'ol Chinese. Yee-hah" |
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(impatient, pedantic moment)"let's order Chinese" or "let's call a Chinese carryout" |
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I had an Italian for dinner. |
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I couldn't eat a whole one. |
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Just order it and put the leftovers on my plate when you're full. |
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So "small dinner party" huh? I see you decided to feed your cats to your neighbours instead of feeding them to their Great Danes? ;) |
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cats are better than chicken. With Cats everyone gets a leg. |
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[UB] Take care with Borna Virus - recent work in Un Zud has shown possums to be a vector. In the US, seropositivity to BVD has been found in almost a quarter of acute psychiatric patients. |
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Possums hangin' around UB's |
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Etherman phoned up a chinese, |
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Consul's mongolian on his plate |
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Cat's in the tree, dinner's late |
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Borna Virus doesn't rhyme, |
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so I'll leave that for another time. |
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Morning's shot, I've had my fun |
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now back to ingredients.com |
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Very useful, especially if you shop at a
farmer's market or join a CSA. |
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I don't know what Unabubba is talking
about -- I've never known a cat to
prepare a satay kabab. Mine would just
eat the ingredients raw. However, Jenny
has some very talented cats, and
perhaps they could be trained. |
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Cats cant be trained they're too damned smart for that. I warn you all, one day the cats are going to take over. Does noone recognise the superior life form in our midst, continually plotting the downfall of man (and spinster) kind. |
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[+] wonderful idea... could have an online personal account of "what I have in my fridge/cupboard" too so the program can suggest shopping ideas. |
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Cats will only take over once they figure out can openers and
door knobs. I suspect the pull top cat food cans of being a
feline plot. |
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//Cats will only take over once they figure out can
openers and door knobs |
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My cat used to open doors all the time by using
the knob, he'd jump up on the shelf then hook it
with his paw |
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Didn't read all of the annos above, but Allrecipes has an ingredient search where you put in what you have and it will search for recipes with those ingredients. However, of course most of the recipes will require additional ingredients than what you enter. (linked) |
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I just type all my ingredients into google along with the word "recipe" and see what comes up. That's how I discovered chicken cake. |
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...and stir-fried green mold.
To be really useful this idea would need to keep track of all the ingredients that you have about the house as well.
So you scan in all the barcodes when you bring the shopping home and then push a button to get a recipe suggestion based on the ingredients in the house. If you accept the suggestion then the recipe components are deducted from your stock. When you get tired of boiled rice in a washing-up liquid sauce you can go and do some more shopping. |
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