It collects all the best blog recipes on the web and compiles them into a gorgeous slideshow with easy access links to the source blog and full recipe.
Maybe I spent a couple of hours flipping through the images of food. Maybe I spent more than a couple of hours. I'll never tell.
Besides just staring at the food porn, I'm using the app to mine for new simple recipes to try. I fell out of love with cooking recently (all work and no play makes Laura eat frozen pizza too many nights a week) so I'm looking for some simple variations to foods my fiance and I already know and like. With quitting my job recently to work on some independent projects I should have more than enough free time to try out these new recipes.
These are the first five I'm interested in.
1. White Chocolate Cherry Hand-Pies by Kris at www.munchinwithmunchkin.com
(Can I admit here that I've never rolled out a pie crust dough of my own making? I expect to have my mom on speaker phone for the entire baking session the first time I try these.)
What I love about this recipe is the fat-free Greek yogurt and sunflower oil used in the crust. That's the healthiest you can get when eating pie, I think.
2. Nectarine and Blueberry Cobbler by Mark at www.sweetfineday.com
This one is great because nectarines are some of my favourite fruits and there aren't many recipes that call for them. My fiance can't get enough of blueberries in baked goods so this recipe is bound to make both of us very happy.
Speaking of favourite foods, we have 3. Tabouleh with fresh cherry tomatoes by the Admin at www.brooklynsupper.net
Fresh, simple, healthy and featuring as many tomatoes as I want. I love salads, I LOVE tomatoes and I love my middle eastern heritage. Tabouleh for all!
4. Korean Dumplings and dipping sauce from www.duodishes.com
There's a wonderful Korean grocer across the street from us that sells frozen dumplings in a variety of flavours for at amazingly low prices. We've become obsessed with them. This recipe provides a great base for a whole foods version. The sauce looks impossibly delicious too.
5. Red onion dip from scratch again from the Admin at www.brooklynsupper.net
As with the dumplings this is a great whole foods version of something I eat all the time. Normally my onion dip comes straight from the package but in the interest of getting healthier I'm keen to try this version which has real onions and no packaged, sodium and preservative-heavy flavouring.
I'll probably end up improvising quite a bit with this one since it's maybe a little too simple as is, but that's more than fine. Improvising is the spice of life. Heh, spice, food, get itohnevermind.
So that's what we'll be trying out this week. I'll post updates on how everything went.
But what about you? Any new recipes you've recently tried out? How did they go?
