Generally I just wing it, have been cooking so long I can develop my own recipes for most things. But sometimes I do have to look for tips, and will read recipes for inspiration.

Food:

Bon Appetit

Recipe Tin Eats

Boy who Bakes

Perfect Loaf

Food and Wine

NYT Cooking

Cocktails:

Punch

Imbibe

I do a websearch in this format:

simple <dish name> recipe

I likely will always have a couple of missing ingredients so a simple version has a higher likelihood of me being able to make it.

Google what I want. So far so good. I’ve had consistently good results with Allrecipes and BBC food.

Just search, and run across other recipes in links of current ones.

There are certain cooks who I’ll check occasionally (chef John at foodwishes.com, Nick Stellino).

I also have some cookbooks: the cooking bibles (Joy of Cooking, Gourmet). America’s Test Kitchen cookbook for standards to start from.

Otherwise I do a search and see the person’s actual site. If there’s AI generated crap, I just never go back.

It’s not the answer you’re probably looking for but, my cookbooks. I happen to have a bunch of old cookbooks I’ve inherited from family members and friends. It takes some research skills sometimes, but it works.

I also maintain a personal blog site which is my online cookbook. It’s not only my own recipes, but also a link dump. When I find a good, non-AI article I’ll share it there like a clipping with the usual tags for how I catalog things. It takes a bit of discipline, but for me its second nature by now. It also lets me take notes on how a recipe worked out, and what substitutions or adjustments I’d like to make next pass.

Bad Manners / Thig Kitchen, they had a website which now seems to be gone, but there are also cookbooks, both paper and ebooks. It’s vegan but they’re some of the best recipes I tried, vegan or not.

honestly… pinterest. it has led me to some cooking blogs i never would have known about otherwise. there’s one site i really like though and subscribe to via rss, Budget Bytes.

i also am subscribed to some magazines through my library on Libby: Cooks Illustrated, Food Network Magazine, Vegan Food & Living, Bon Appetit. Getting them digitally makes it easy to screenshot the ones I wanna try out.

also sometimes when browsing in the bookstore or library i’ll just flip through a cookbook and take pics of the recipes i want with my phone to put in my digital cookbook later.

Eatingwell has been my go-to lately. I see lots of things that look enticing from triedandtruerecipe on imgur, too.

Check out this riggies recipe. You won’t be disappointed.

Just made these today, first time making one of his recipes, would recommend.

More generally, we’ve got some blogs we’ve followed for enough years to trust. Koreanbapsang.com, rainbowplantlife, pickuplimes, chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com, and some others. But all of those we followed before ai slop became viable

I always check recipetineats.com first

Also I have started building a federated recipe site (well… Very early stages), so hopefully, one day, there.

Sonic cookbook tonight

Deb Perelman’s blog is incredible. She’s a delight, and any recipe I’ve tried has been a hit.

Never had loveandlemons.com let us down.

Budget bytes is a pretty good site. Especially if you are looking to save money.

I mainly get them from YouTube and their resppective websites. My favorites are:

Babish Culinary Universe (Everything)
Pailin’s Kitchen (Thai)
Sheldo’s Kitchen (Sotheast Asian)
Brian Lagerstrom (Baking and American)
Curries with Bumbi (Indian)
Hanbit Cho (Baking)