Hi, In addition to food.com, there's an app called Big Oven which boasts 350,000 recipes of all sorts. Allrecipes may have an app as well. Tom
Sent from my iPhone 7 > On Apr 28, 2017, at 6:39 AM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I was primarily responding to the "blind friendly" recipes piece. > If by Blind Friendly, the idea was simple, like the 5 ingredients cookbook, > then maybe that is the way to go, but without knowing the basics and how to > measure, then it is going to be difficult and blindness has nothing to do > with it. > > Richard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 10:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: need some suggestions for some good cooking apps > > Another very good app is Paprika, it allows you to browse recipes from inside > the app and then to save any you find interesting to the app. The app > automatically puts ingredients and directions and all that in the correct > format and supports dozens of popular recipe sites. You can also scale > recipes, e.g. if a recipe is for 4-6 people and you want to make only half of > that you can scale it to 0.5 and all measurements are adjusted accordingly. > Other than that I agree that Food.com is a good website, AllRecipes.com is > also good and if you like vegetarian I like www.CookieandKate.com. > As for the art of cooking itself I would disagree a bit with your statement, > Richard, about being able to measure and cook. I guess if by "learing to > cook" you mean to master basics like how to prepare certain foods, how to > saute, thicken a sauce and many more things then I agree, but it's learing > how to do many of these things which make the difference between somebody who > can follow a basic recipe and somebody who is a good cook who can also > improvise and still get a good result. Of course it also depends on how many > finished and prepared ingredients you want to use, e.g. do you buy Coleslaw > and prepared dressing or a Caesar salad mix in a bag with Caesar salad > dressing or do you buy cabbage, carots, apples, sellery and all the things > you need for the dressing to make your own coleslaw and do you buy romane > lettuce, crutons and then make your own bacon bits and you make your own > Caesar dressing which requires all sorts of ingredients including anchovi > paste, fresh parmesan cheese etc. Let's not even get into making actual > authentic indian curries which can require literally a dozen different spices. > I have cooked for a long time, my Mom has a degree in home economics and > learned back in Germany in the 50's where she had to do a 4-year > aprenticeship with schooling in between and two separate exams before she had > her masters degree, and I learned a lot from her, but still I only consider > myself a fair cook. I love all kinds of food, but am particularly fond of > very hot indian or thai curries and I sometimes wish I could cook better. > Also, apart from learning the required skills you do have to invest a bit of > money in some equipment and just as with many things or hobbies you can spend > a lot if you want to buy really good knives, pots and pans etc. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 8:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: need some suggestions for some good cooking apps > > > I don't know what blind friendly recipes would be. > The key is learning how to measure and cook. > > Food.com has a great app with thousands and thousands of recipes. > Blind Mice Mega Mall sells cook books and has a podcast by a blind cook, I > think, though I've never listened to it. > I am totally blind, and have cooked since I went blind at age 12. > Richard > > > > Noun: trumpery > 1. (informal) statements or beliefs that are untrue or make no sense 2. > Ornamental objects of no great value This definition is from WordWeb > > (Sent from the iPod Touch 6? > >> On Apr 27, 2017, at 7:39 PM, Jed Barton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> Well, i'm going to be starting to venture out more in the kitchen and doing >> more cooking. Quite frankly it's long over-due. Any suggestiong on any >> apps i can use, or any good sites for blind friendly recipes and all that? >> >> Cheers, >> Jed >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >> [email protected]. 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