Useful Recipe Resources for the Home Cook

Dear Visitor,

You're looking for meal time inspiration, correct? Here are some recipe resources and meal planning ideas from hand picked websites. These sites offer information that is useful to you, the home cook.

Hurry along now and check out these recipe resources, but don't forget to come back to Formula Easy Recipes :)

Our mission statement at Formula Easy Recipes specifically encourages the development of intuition for the home cook using a "modular approach" in which marinades, proteins, and sauces are mixed and matched.

It's going to take us a while, but twenty marinades (and/or rubs) times twenty different proteins, times twenty sauces equals 8,000 menu ideas for your "test kitchen."

I've been cooking five decades now - in the beginning, the range was at my eye level - and as the daughter of a restauranteur, food approached the status of a religion in our home.

Somewhere along the line, I began to realize that a sauce that worked for chicken would likely as not, work well with fish. A marinade that's good for beef is almost certainly a winner with pork, too.

Sometimes I use a cookbook or ideas from TV chefs, mainly to keep "fresh" on updated ingredients and prep methods, but it is the nature of home cooking that, in truth, you have to cook from what you've got hanging around the house, no?

I saw a need for a more flexible way of using up the refrigerator's contents.

So Formula Easy Recipes was born, using the same technique that women have been using to put together an outfit - the idea of buying "separates."

By and large, I focus on dinner planning, because so many breakfasts are perfunctory and so many lunches, eaten out.

However, I didn't forget vegetables either. This vegetable chart jogs your memory when you want to go beyond canned peas

I leave desserts pretty much to those that like them. I make an exception for flan - I might post it one day. Oh, and chocolates :) - in my book, it's the fifth food group.

And then there are charts and graphs - I ADORE 'em! Look for more on FERC. They are handy to tape inside a cabinet door near your oven and range. They cut through so much verbiage and redundancy that with a good graph, you are free from the tyranny of the cookbook all together.

That's the whole idea.

If you find my approach useful, let me know, I love to hear from you.

Your fellow home cook,

Jeannette

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