How to Find Good Recipes

As you continue to venture out into the cooking world, you’ll obviously need to find more things than just what I cook. There’s so much on the internet now that you don’t even need your mom’s recipe book to cook just like her. The issue I find now is how to figure out if a recipe is going to be good or not. Here’s a couple of sources that I trust:

• Epicurious is great for crowd-sourced recipes. They have a ranking system so you can see how good a recipe is and how likely others would be to make it again. I usually read the comments before I begin to see if people substitute a lot of the ingredients or have tips on how to improve it.

• Bon Appetit is a well-established source for recipes. They have a magazine that is actually really cheap to subscribe to and I find that it’s nice to have a magazine to flip through to get ideas for what to cook. The magazines are done according to what’s in season, so you’ll find recipes that will be easier to shop for. The drawback here is that the recipes are usually pretty advanced.

• New York Times is also fantastic, but you’ll need a subscription to access the online version.

• The Food Network also curates a lot of recipes that they use on their shows. I especially like Alton Brown and Paula Deen (for her cooking, not her opinions).

• Lastly, find a cookbook or two that you can trust. We love Chrissy Teigen in our household.

Once you find a recipe that you like, I always try to copy it down onto a recipe card to store in a recipe box, or in a notebook. That way you can make edits to the recipe as you see fit and know exactly where to find it. Also, you can then start to curate your own little library of recipes to share with your friends.