America’s Test Kitchen is pretty good, they go into the how and why of things in a way that’s really helpful if you don’t already know how to do things like “blanching” or “caramelizing” or “deglazing”. I’m a big ol dummy and it’s nice to have your hand held sometimes :)

Public Domain Recipes
FOSS recipe list with very basic UI

I always check recipetineats.com first

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

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.

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.

Never had loveandlemons.com let us down.

Public service reminder: Your local Library carries cookbooks. When AI has destroyed cooking, get a Library card.

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)

No recipes - heavily Japanese influenced since he’s from Japan but a ton of great recipes from around the world

Damn delicious - love her spam fried rice but a lot of great Asian / pacific islander inspired dishes

Half baked harvest - a bit of everything but very garden to table inspired

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.

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

Marginalia is good for this. It can be hard to find recipes with very specific requirements, but I’ve bumped into so many cool personal websites with recipe collections just by searching for “[name of one ingredient I want to use] recipe”.

Some websites found that way:

• https://urchin.earth.li/~aendr/recipes/
• https://jessey.net/recipes/
• https://pikemalarkey.neocities.org/recipes
• https://caolan.uk/kitchen/recipes/
• http://biobug.org/recipes/
• https://grimgrains.com/site/home.html

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

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 honestly don’t use recipes. I cook the food until it’s done and put whatever seasonings I enjoy in it.