October 19th, 2010
Earlier this summer I finally upgraded my ancient cell phone after it finally stopped charging and couldn’t be repaired. As you may know from previous posts I jumped on the iPhone bandwagon, and I’m glad that I did. I’ve found a lot of really useful, fun and entertaining apps, but my current favorite is Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything” app.
But wait…,”Who’s Mark Bittman?” you may be asking. Well, Mark Bittman is a reknowned cook and writer. He’s a columnist for The New York Times, jounalist and an author of many great cookbooks including:
Mark Bittman’s Quick and Easy Recipes from the New York Times: Featuring 350 recipes from the author of HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING and THE BEST RECIPES IN THE WORLD
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food
and
The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living
In fact, his book, How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food
sells on Amazon for over $20, but now you can download the App for $4.99. I can tell you that it’s a real bargain. I love that it’s on my phone, so I have it anytime that I need it. Some of my favorite features include the Bittman’s picks, which lists his favorite recipes. These include: Top 100 Vegetarian Recipes, Top 100 Make-Ahead Recipes and the Top 100 Fast Recipes; all of which are super useful for meal planning. You can then select your favorite recipe and with the push of a button add it directly to your calendar. You can plan recipes for a week or a month, or for that next party you have coming up during the holidays. If you didn’t plan your meal in advance and you just want to work with items you have laying around in the pantry or fridge you can use the search option. You can search by ingredient, cooking technique, flavor or recipe types (fast, make-ahead, vegetarian or essential). One of my favorite tools withint he app is the groceries feature. You can add right from the recipes or type in your own selections. It lets you organize by aisle so that you don’t have to go back and forth over the recipe to find everything at the store. You can even email your shopping list in case you have another family member who can stop and pick things up for you. Last, but no least is the ability to favorite your recipes. Best yet, you don’t have to carry around a printed book or pages or recipes from the internet. This frugal and environmentally friendly app gives you access to over 2,000 recipes and you’ll never have to waste paper printing a recipe in this easy to read format. Everything is in one convenient place (your iphone), which you were going to have to carry around anyway. This app has revolutionized weeknight cooking for me and I wanted to share my thoughts on what a great tool this is for any cook. Enjoy!
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April 27th, 2010
Inhabitat, a blog devoted to sustainable design, wants you to make something awesome out of old junk and share it! They are hosting the Spring Greening Competition, where you can compete for praise, recognition and $250 gift certificate to be used in the Inhabitat Shop. The Inhabitat shop has everything from worm composters to fashionable pumps, so you’ll have no problem spending your new loot. So…find some old junk, make something rad, take a bunch of photos and enter the competition already!
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June 26th, 2009
I cook meals at least 5 nights a week in our household and many of those meals involve onions. I also wear eye make-up 7 days a week, which when combined unfortunately leaves a colorful mash-up on my face. I had been eyeballing these RSVP Onion Goggles
at Amazon for some time, but as I already own a number of single-purpose kitchen gadgets I felt a bit guilty about purchasing them, so like any good mom, I guilted my family into buying them for me for mother’s day. For once, my plan worked! Now that I’ve been using them for about a month I have to say that, although my family laughs at me every time, they are so awesome. I haven’t shed a single tear and I used them 2 or 3x a week. Never has another $20 been better spent. I may look like a doofus, but underneath my nerdy onion goggles my eye make-up stays just as fresh as when I put it on in the morning and I don’t have to walk around looking like I have pink eye, so I’m a happy girl. If black and lime green isn’t your taste they also come in pink and white.
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