hi, There is also a food.com app which I like very much! Sandy sent from the dark side of the moon
> On 28 Apr 2017, at 17:03, Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, Allrecipes does have an app. > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Tom > Lange [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 11:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: need some suggestions for some good cooking apps > > 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. 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