on May 19th, 2007Useful Links
If you landed here because of the CATS, just scroll down for them and enjoy!
Food and Ingredients - Shopping and Recipes
All Chocolate - Everything you want to know about chocolate and recipes too.
Zabar’s - Fabulous coffee, gift baskets, Kosher food and so much more.
Jessica’s Biscuit - Long before Amazon we got great cookbook deals here. We still do. Superb service.
King Arthur Flour - Everything for the baker, top dollar. Lots of good recipes.
White Lily Flour - The queen of the South. Low-protein flour for biscuits and pie crusts.
Penzey’s Spices - You need it, they probably have it. Good prices.
Nielsen-Massey Vanillas - My favorite extract. I also use their vanilla paste and powder. Recipes too.
Saco Buttermilk Blend - How to store and use it, how much to use, plus recipes.
Perdue - All things poultry from Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Jennie-O Turkey - Lots of information and recipes.
Brisket archives @ Jewish food - Sheer heaven for us brisket sluts.
Pita Bread recipes - From Kangaroo. Appetizers and vegetarian included.
Cook’s.com - A big recipe database.
Eating Well - Healthy recipes and lifestyle.
Recipe Source - Formerly SOAR, the granddaddy of Internet recipe databases. Lots of ethnic.
Equipment
Chef’s Catalog - Wide selection, good prices.
Fante’s Kitchen Wares - From aspic cutters to zesters, huge selection of everything. Been around since 1906.
Kitchen Aid on eBay - A KA company store with great values.
NY Cake Supply - Formerly NY Cake & Baking, everything for cake and candy making. No online ordering though.
Kuhn Rikon - Pressure cookers and recipes.
Williams-Sonoma - Top-notch equipment and recipes, top dollar.
America’s Test Kitchen - From Cook’s Illustrated, tied to the PBS show. Current season Equipment Corner results and recipes are free.
Outlet Bound - A searchable guide for outlet malls and stores.
Reference
The Cook’s Thesaurus - An encyclopedia, really. Everything about ingredients, including substitutions.
WinedIn - Which wine with which food? This simple-to-use site will help you.
Nutrition Data - Detailed nutrition facts and analysis for any food.
Food Safety - From the USDA.
Safe Food Handling - On the Perdue website.
When to toss spices - From McCormick. And if your McCormick label says Baltimore, it’s at least 15 years old. Bye!
Food Timeline - Food history going back to water and salt. Fascinating.
KitchenAid message boards - Help, ideas and recipes, buried in the KitchenAid website.
Beware the Salt Shockers - Sodium in foods we don’t think of as salty. From Web MD.
Charts and Reference - From Betty Crocker. Lots of how-to’s and solutions for those uh-oh moments.
The Metric Kitchen - To convert US recipes to metric.
Baking 911 - What went wrong with my cake?
Substitutes for wine, alcohol and spirits - From the Gourmet Sleuth
Environmetal Working Group - Get the lowdown on organic produce.
Recipe Resizer - Make a small recipe big enough for a crowd and vice versa
Diversions
Tiffany - Well, why not?
Bloomingdale’s - See above.
Peace Prayers From Around the World - Multi-cultural and ecumenical.
Who’s Editing Wikipedia? - See it in (almost) real time. Great time waster!
Gawker - Gossip, snark and a little news, often in the same sentence. Some profanity.
Playa Cofi - Online jukebox with hits from the 1940’s through the 1980s.
Cheddar Cam - Watch a wheel of English Cheddar age. 1.25 1.5 million hits and counting.
Stuff on my Cat - That’s what the pictures show. Often funny.
I Can Has Cheezburger? - lolcats.
The Daily Puppy - Canine cuteness.
Stuff on my Mutt - Newish sister site to Stuff on my Cat.
Just Goldens - Golden Retriever photoblog. Awww…how cute!
The Dubya Countdown - How long till the next inauguration. To the second.
Kiss This Guy - The archive of mis-heard lyrics. (”Excuse me while I kiss this guy.”) Has been around forever and just gets better with time.
Web Sudoku - Play on line. Kiss your free time goodbye.
Button Generator - Make a free button for your website.
How Observant Are You? - Take this quick quiz and find out.
