aclJohn's Catering Finds

CookDinner...

• can help visitors learn how to make delicious food and try their hand at cooking.
• is a free to use recipe website.
  

Visitors...

• do not need to create an account but, as expected form similar websites, registering provides additional features.
• get a recipe view in which thumbnails of dishes are displayed.
  
• can click on any image to highlight it and its time duration will be displayed.
• can view the recipe’s details like...
  • ingredients and
    
  • preparation method. Along with
    ...

Shopping on Wednesday, the only onions I could find that came from the UK were shallots; New Zealand, Australia and Egypt were the other sources of onions!

Eating fresh, we are told, is one of the most important things when it comes to your health. We are all aware that, given the development in agriculture, any fruit or vegetable can be produced in any season. However, that doesn't mean it's the best thing to eat.

It is considered by many that the best food to eat is usually what is na...

Certified foodie? Like to know all about the food you love? Then check out Gourmet Origins.

Gourmet Origins is a map-based online social guide that helps food enthusiasts discover the origins of gourmet foods. Through this site, learners (and practitioners) will be able...

• to locate exactly where food comes from;
• read facts and trivia about certain food provided by some producers;
  

EggWatchers is an online egg timer that helps to prepare a perfect boiled egg and entertains you by showing videos from YouTube while you wait for your egg to be cooked.

The site even lets you specify the type of egg you want to cook.

To use EggWatcher’s timer...

• go to the site; and
• choose what size of egg is to be cooked; then
• specify if the egg is refrigerated; and
• specify how you want it to be cooked (runny, squidgy, or firm).

After starting the timer, the website will play a ra...

Visitors to CookThing can...

• enter what they want to cook,
  CookThing sends back the most common ingredients in that dish.
• select the ingredients they want to use,
  CookThing will return the recipes for what they want to cook with the ingredients they want to use

TwoFoods is a nice online tool for those who are calorie conscious or, more importantly, studying Food Science and would love to know the nutritional value that food has to offer.

The website has a simple interface showing two boxes where users enter names of two foods and compare their nutritional values. It provides a comparison table showing the...

• calories,
• proteins,
• carbohydrates and
• fat

...in both of them.

A simple and nice user interface found at http://www.twofoods.com/.

Rouxbe is an online video cooking school complete with...

• practice video recipes,
• cooking exercises,
• culinary quizzes,
• progress reporting and
• personal chef support...

Full access to the Rouxbe Cooking School requires a paid Premium Membership.

What is free on Rouxbe?

Rouxbe offers...

• a free sample lesson every day
• all the...
• instructional video recipes,
• text recipes,
• tip and technique videos and
• community forums

Users don’t have to sign up to learn a great deal...