Beyond Corned Beef, Cabbage and Green Food Coloring: Food for St. Patrick's Day
I was in the grocery store earlier today after a trip through Crystal. Along the road every restaurant that I passed seemed to have suddenly added corned beef and cabbage to their menus or managed to dig out the big ol' bottle of green food coloring and started dumping it into every water-soluble substance in their kitchen.
Once in the store, the same trend was magnified. Half of the end-caps were covered in shamrocks and a significant portion of the pastries found themselves coated in green goo.
The thing is. There's lots of really good Irish food that I'm seriously looking forward to taking part in from the source when we are in Ireland in July.
Wanting to get a taste in advance of that trip, I headed to my new favorite food/recipe site: Recipezaar. I've got quite a few food sites in the list I go to when it's time to whip something up. Recipezaar isn't exactly the Web 2.0 poster child. There are plenty of other recipe sites that "feel" better. I mean I really like the look of Open Source Food.
However, Open Source Food, despite the gorgeous photography and things like tagging, when it comes down to it, a site like Recipezaar delivers on the actual task at hand. See, I use a site like these to find food worth making. And, on those features that matter, Recipezaar delivers.
If you're looking to move beyond corned beef and cabbage or want some Irish food that is more than just a cliche, it's worth digging through some of the related recipe lists they've got. I usually sort everything by rating, which brings out some really good commentary on how good or bad the recipes actually are.
Once you find some that you like (I'm thinking Irish Pub Stew and Soda Bread sound good to me or maybe some Irish Cod Pie), one of the features of Recipezaar really shines. Their printable format is really one of the best of all of the recipe sites out there. You need to register for a free account to hide the stuff that shows at the top of the page and then you get nice, clean layouts with nutrition information, original comments by the submitter and a quick URL for looking it up again at a later date. Nearly every recipe I've gotten from them fit on a single side of a single sheet of paper.
Combine these nice printer-friendly layouts with a default PDF printer and you've got an easy way to save recipes for later printing or review.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
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