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Wife knocked-up, time to learn to cook
I’ve never been much into cooking and during those university years pre-wife, I’m hard pressed to even think of what I ate and how I managed to survive. Best I can remember is a lot Ramen noodles and friend chicken from the corner shop with bullet-proof glass. I guess that MGD has a lot of vitamins and nutrients.
With my wife pregnant and dead-tired, I’m trying to pick up some of the slack. And feed her something other than a bowl of cereal between groggily waking up from a catnap on the couch and carrying her rapidly-expanding belly to bed.
Here are some of her favorite cooking pages (she really likes to cook…lucky for me…and reads these pages regularly). While I’m still no Ferran Adria…and honestly not even much of a Rachel Ray…I have to admit that I’m starting to have fun.
Delicious days is the most wonderful food blog around. First off, it is simply beautiful. The bloggers are a couple who live in Munich, who, as far as I can tell, dedicate their time to photography, cooking and travel. The pictures are superb, the recipes varied, well recorded with photos step by step, interesting and well, delicious. The search engine is lovely, you can also browse though the recipes by category - all so organized and professional and good good. The only down side to this blog is that they dont post as often enough as you would like. Maybe it’s more of a quality over quality thing, but it might just be that they’re more into cooking than blogging.
Americans will be familiar with this popular cable tv channel with well-known shows such as 30 minute meals and Everyday Italian. Lots of show clippings are on the website.
Jamie Oliver Jaime Oliver is my favorite celebrity chef and his shows - especially the recent ones such as Jamie at Home - are really excellent. Unfortunately, he’s a bit of a slacker when it comes to his website although there are some good recipes and video clips. The podcast is great and nice to bring with you on the go although he seems to update only every few months.
Maybe a little too girly, but still a good source for quick tips and interesting recipes. Some of the recipes are interesting, “Yum” posts regularly, and on mondays she talks about making a meal out of her sunday’s recipe, which is pretty clever.
Two nice amateur blogs in the delicious days vibe though not quite as pretty. Both sites are a bit heavy on baking but still some good info here.
Ask Metafilter: Cooking Tag
The site has tons of great cooking-related posts with lots of recipes and good links (eg, check out this post from today if you still hate the idea of cooking).
Lots of other good cooking sites are book-marked at del.icio.us, although have to admit that these sites are the ones I’ve been frequenting the most.
PS. If you are a total beginner, check out these 20 lessons to kick-start your cooking skills.
