Allrecipes: A Great Cooking Site

All Recipes at http://allrecipes.com/ is one of my favorite cooking sites. This site has a wealth of good information for any good cook. It also has many helps for those just learning their way around the kitchen.

All Recipes has divided all of its recipes into twenty-six cookbooks titled beverages, main dishes, kids, cookies, bread, cakes and so on. It also has a cookbook for each of the major holidays. I found many good recipes for Thanksgiving and Christmas on this site. Every holiday has featured receipts with holiday celebration ideas.

All Recipes has many sections for every kind of special diets . A person can find recipes for sugar free diets and vegetarian diets. When I wanted a larger variety of salads and other kinds of recipes for waight loss, I turned to All Recipes.

Subscribers to this site submit each recipe. Many recipes are rated by those of us who have made them. Recipes are rated by taste, time to prepare, child friendly, and how easy it is to prepare. These ratings are a fail safe help when it comes to choosing just which new recipe you want to try. I never found it to fail me. If the recipe has been given a high rating by several other people, it will be given a high rating by your family.

All recipes list the number of servings it makes but All Recipes adds a feature that scales it up. Have you found a chili recipe that will make ten servings but you have thirty-five people coming for dinner? Scroll down to the place where you can scale it up. Put thirty-five in the space indicated and click and in no time you have will have a recipe that will make thirty-five servings.

Each recipe also includes all of the nutrition information you want. It lists the calories, grams of protein, total fat, sodium, cholesterol, carbohydrates and fiber for each serving. Each recipe can be converted to metric or from metric to standard. You can even email a recipe to a friend or send it as a recipe ecard. You can print each recipe as a 3X5 or 4X6 recipe card.

Another feature I really like is the personal recipe box. If you find a recipe you really like, you can click a link and it is added to your personal recipe box. The recipe box can be categorized. There you can rate the recipes, add notes and put them on a shopping list.

That shopping list is a wonderful convince. If you decide that you want to make this recipe or that one this week, you can click "Add to Shopping List." Then you can print the list and take with you. You can be sure that you will have everything you need to make that recipe when it is time to cook.

All Recipes has many other helpful features. There is always a recipe of the day and a top ten list. There is a reference section that answers questions about food terms, substitutions and conversions. There is a step by step section that has simple instructions and photographs to help you learn new recipes. There is also a Know How section that has articles for cooks. Many of these know how articles have videos.

All Recipe also has newsletters. One of them is What's Cooking, a weekly email that will have the newest recipes. Another is Recipe Notes; a semi-monthly newsletter loaded with seasonal cooking advice, recipes and meal ideas. The newest one is Healthy Bites. Sign up for as many as you want.

This is a great site for anyone who likes to cook.