Today's Bellyache
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I use a recipe app called "Paprika." It has both PC/Mac and mobile versions. I think it was $35 or so.
When you find a recipe you like, you can enter the url into paprika which will parse the website, extract the ingredients, instructions, and a photo and store it for you.
You can create your own categories into which recipes go, like, "Mrs. George approves," or "Never EVER make this again." Of course, you can rate recipes on a basis of 1-5 stars.
For example, this website, when imported into Paprika, looks like this:
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What is it with these women with recipe websites who can't. shut. up? If I'm looking for a particular recipe, why must I wade through reams of their life shit to get to it? Grandma's kitchen smells, memories of summertime, memories of vacation trips, including the cute little beeestro with the pepper strings and the to-die-for queso dip, bake sales, doctor visits, hubby's boss, hubby's boss' wife, red-checked tablecloths . . .
And they all start out with something like,"Hi! I'm Marylee!"
Yeah, I don't care about your damn name. You think we'll be getting to the recipe before sundown?
One of them promising a dip recipe (sometime before the next freaking millenium) goes, "This will be a huge home run for the big game (or oops, is that touchdown? I'm not much for sports.)"
Yeah, no kidding, idiot.
Pro Tip, Marylee: Adorable only gets you so far.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^Cat peeking out on the sweatshirt: "I'm staying in today. It's too PEOPLEY out there."
Grump.
@Catseye3 said in Today's Bellyache:
What is it with these women with recipe websites who can't. shut. up? If I'm looking for a particular recipe, why must I wade through reams of their life shit to get to it? Grandma's kitchen smells, memories of summertime, memories of vacation trips, including the cute little beeestro with the pepper strings hanging from the rafters and the to-die-for queso dip, bake sales, doctor visits, hubby's boss, hubby's boss' wife, red-checked tablecloths . . .
And they all start out with something like,"Hi! I'm Marylee!"
Yeah, I don't care about your damn name. You think we'll be getting to the recipe before sundown?
One of them promising a dip recipe (sometime before the next freaking millenium) goes, "This will be a huge home run for the big game (or oops, is that touchdown? I'm not much for sports.)"
Yeah, no kidding, idiot.
Pro Tip, Marylee: Adorable only gets you so far.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^Cat peeking out on the sweatshirt: "I'm staying in today. It's too PEOPLEY out there."
Grump.
SEO.
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Akshually...
The one thing I do like about these recipe posts is the photos that are posted. I find the steps in preparation interesting, just so I know what to expect.
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Akshually...
The one thing I do like about these recipe posts is the photos that are posted. I find the steps in preparation interesting, just so I know what to expect.
@George-K said in Today's Bellyache:
Akshually...
The one thing I do like about these recipe posts is the photos that are posted. I find the steps in preparation interesting, just so I know what to expect.
A lot of folks who do recipe media, for lack of a better term, run it at a loss or with very thin margins. Kitchens have notoriously the worst lighting and filming conditions you could ever dream up, so you basically have to make a set from the ground up, and it really helps if it's also functional. It's a weird industry, and usually it's attached to something else to make it worth it.
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I just volunteered for our town's library booksale. The number and quality of cookbooks was outstanding - much greater than one would have seen a decade ago. As I was there ahead of the crowd, I did pick up a handful - but it is clearly a sign of the times that cookbooks aren't the go to resource they once were.
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I just volunteered for our town's library booksale. The number and quality of cookbooks was outstanding - much greater than one would have seen a decade ago. As I was there ahead of the crowd, I did pick up a handful - but it is clearly a sign of the times that cookbooks aren't the go to resource they once were.
@kluurs said in Today's Bellyache:
it is clearly a sign of the times that cookbooks aren't the go to resource they once were.
Looking up a recipe for broccoli puree, Google fetched up -- wait for it -- 4,730,000 hits (in .42 seconds, which I don't care who you are, is scary as shit to think about its ownself).
Not believing that this actually meant there are 4,730,000 recipes for broccoli puree even on the Internetz, I clicked on page 10 just to see.
Sure enough. We got Healthy Broccoli Mashed Potatoes, Pureed Broccoli with Creme Fraiche, Rosemary Broccoli Puree, Butternut Squash and Broccoli Puree with Homemade Rusks, Broccoli Puree Side Dish, Puree of Broccoli Soup, How To Make Broccoli Baby Food, Precious Puree of Potato and Broccoli, Mustard Powder with Broccoli.
Then I came upon Quick and Easy Recipes from Williams Sonoma, which since I love me some Williams Sonoma I took a peek to see what they were up to with broccoli puree. But I got sidetracked with these bowls, which being totally a bowl phreak I WANT.
Then I saw this chip and dip bowl just below the bowls and I WANT IT, TOO.
It is now 2:30AM and I'm sorry, but this is all you get. Despite the song of ten million crickets or cicadas or whatever the eff they are, I must rest. 4,730,000 recipes for broccoli puree in .42 seconds on top of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is just too much, I tell you. I must sleep, to escape the horror-filled speculation of what, God help us all, tomorrow may bring.
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@kluurs said in Today's Bellyache:
it is clearly a sign of the times that cookbooks aren't the go to resource they once were.
Looking up a recipe for broccoli puree, Google fetched up -- wait for it -- 4,730,000 hits (in .42 seconds, which I don't care who you are, is scary as shit to think about its ownself).
Not believing that this actually meant there are 4,730,000 recipes for broccoli puree even on the Internetz, I clicked on page 10 just to see.
Sure enough. We got Healthy Broccoli Mashed Potatoes, Pureed Broccoli with Creme Fraiche, Rosemary Broccoli Puree, Butternut Squash and Broccoli Puree with Homemade Rusks, Broccoli Puree Side Dish, Puree of Broccoli Soup, How To Make Broccoli Baby Food, Precious Puree of Potato and Broccoli, Mustard Powder with Broccoli.
Then I came upon Quick and Easy Recipes from Williams Sonoma, which since I love me some Williams Sonoma I took a peek to see what they were up to with broccoli puree. But I got sidetracked with these bowls, which being totally a bowl phreak I WANT.
Then I saw this chip and dip bowl just below the bowls and I WANT IT, TOO.
It is now 2:30AM and I'm sorry, but this is all you get. Despite the song of ten million crickets or cicadas or whatever the eff they are, I must rest. 4,730,000 recipes for broccoli puree in .42 seconds on top of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is just too much, I tell you. I must sleep, to escape the horror-filled speculation of what, God help us all, tomorrow may bring.
