Similar to other recipe sites, you can browse recipes by meal type, illustration style and ingredient. To submit a recipe you have to register for an account.

Lasagna Rainbow: illustrated

Other useful site features include:

• Dial-A-Dinner – an automatic dinner roulette presented by Nate and Sally (site founders). Simply click on a picture and get a random dinner generated, consisting of a main course and dessert.
• “World Map” – where you can view and browse recipes submitted by fellow users on a Google map.

Features:

• Find or submit illustrated food recipes.
• Search recipes by meal type, ingredients and illustration style ( Creatively designed, Graphic & Modern, Stylishly lettered etc).
• Recipes submitted by fellow foodies, designers and artists.
• Follow new recipes and updates on Facebook and Twitter.
• Register to submit your own recipe illustrations.

Check out They Draw & Cook @ www.theydrawandcook.com (via The Next Web)

Ingredient Pairings is a free to use website that cooking enthusiasts will enjoy. The site lets you quickly find out how well certain ingredients go with others. All you have to do is type in the name of any cooking ingredient and a list of compatible ingredients will then be instantly displayed. Ingredients in upper case will be the best combinations, followed by ingredients written in bold, normal, and italics. Through a link provided on the site, you can find recipes for your typed ingredient using the cooking search engine RecipePuppy.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Shows how well ingredients pair with others.
• Combinations are displayed according to quality of taste.
• Recipes for ingredients are displayed using RecipePuppy.
• Similar tools: FoodPair, RecipePuppy, MyFridgeFood, Cookstr, and ManTestedRecipes.

Check out Ingredient Pairings @ www.ingredientpairings.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

The website also serves as an excellent cooking guide for its users. Numerous recipes are available on the site; these cover a wide variety of ingredients and cooking styles. You can browse recipes alphabetically or categorically; alternatively you can search for recipes by their name.

With your recipes picked out and added to your schedule, you can create lists of ingredients that will help you shop for the right stuff to cook your meals. This ensures that you have all that you need to cook the recipes in your schedule. Items to the list can be added from the predefined entries on the right or by manually typing in ingredients.

Apart from all these features, Say Mmm provides you with different visual themes to help customize your experience on the site.

Demo video:

Features:

• Organize your recipes and make cooking schedulles.
• Offers various visual themes.
• Helps create a cooking schedule.
• Lists various cooking recipes.
• Helps form shopping lists for cooking dishes.

Check out Say Mmm @ www.saymmm.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Foodily is a brilliant cooking website with social network integration. By connecting your Facebook account with Foodily you can see which recipes your friends have been liking. You can search for things you like yourself and then choose something from the results.

Amazing pictures of each dish along with detailed preparation descriptions help you to learn the dish in no time. In the ingredients list of each dish you can pick an ingredient and choose to view other dishes including or excluding that particular ingredient. This will be particularly helpful in case you are allergic to certain ingredients and need recipes without that ingredient.

After you find recipes that you like you can create a menu and share it on Facebook for any upcoming event or party you are about to host.

With easy Facebook integration and brilliant recipe searching interface, Foodily will serve as an excellent recipes website.

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Features:

• A user friendly website.
• Lets you find great cooking recipes.
• Helps find out the recipes that your Facebook friends like.
• Helps filter foods according to their ingredients.
• Lets you create a menu of recipes to share on Facebook.
• Similar tools: ManTestedRecipes, Plummelo, WhatTheF***ShouldIMakeForDinner and Cooklet.
• Also read related article: 7 Good Online Cooking Guides For The Beginner Cook.

Check out Foodily @ www.foodily.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

CookBlast is a search engine that lets you search cooking videos from all over the web. The site has organized more than 16,000 videos so far and this number is increasing. You can quite easily find the cooking video to almost any well-known recipe. On other websites you get the ingredients and cooking procedure in textual format; but with CookBlast’s videos you can view the dish actually being prepared.

You can search recipes by conducting a keyword search or by browsing the ingredients list or cuisine type on the site.

Apart from recipes, the site also includes videos about cooking techniques, tips and tricks from around the web. Whether you want to improve your browning food technique or want tips on how to slice onions perfectly, you can conduct a search and the relevant videos will pop up.

Overall, CookBlast is an excellent site to bookmark especially for all who like to cook at home.

Features:

• Search cooking videos.
• Requires no registration.
• Videos include recipes being made.
• Instructional videos on cooking tips and techniques.

Visit CookBlast @ www.cookblast.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

You can also SMS Foodpickle at U.S. 803-380-FOOD (3663) ““ handy if you do not have  internet access around.

You can also view other food Q&A’s on the website. Read each question and the various answers to each questions or click another tab to view unanswered questions. It helps if you know some answers so you can help other people out. You will quickly find out that the questions are very interesting for the average at-home-cook.

Features:

• Real time cooking q&a site.
• Signup not required; just tweet to get answers.
• View recent and unanswered questions.
• Ask through the website or via SMS and Tweet.
• Similar Tools: Cooklet, FoodOnTable, and Plummelo.

Check out FoodPickle @ www.food52.com/foodpickle

To start, search for a recipe using the built-in Google search and select one you like. KitchenTimer will display the recipe on the right half of your screen allowing you to see the timers on the left hand side.

Then for each and every activity you need to track like marinating, frying, baking, broiling,  just start a new timer by specifying the exact number of minutes, hours or seconds. When the time is up, KitchenTimer will play a sound to alert you.

You can create as many timers as you want without the hassle of signing up for an account or downloading an app.

Features:

• Nice recipe site with handy online cooking timer
• Create timers to keep track.
• Manage multiple timers on the same screen.
• View cooking recipes on the same screen.
• No registration required.

Visit KitchenTimer @ KitchenTimer.org

Cooklet is a free website that includes almost everything you will need to cook. It contains recipes, food cleaning tips, cooking tips, and tips on which products to buy. Recipes are accompanied by a rating and their preparation time. Tips can be browsed according to a user’s cooking level. You can also use the website’s measurements converter and timer to help you with your cooking.

Any custom questions can be posted on the site’s forums where other users can answer.

The site also features a mobile friendly version and an Adobe Air based desktop application. A soon to be launched smartphone app is promised.

Features:

• Discover, store and organize recipes online.
• Contains cooking tips based on cooking levels.
• Contains cooking recipes with ratings and preparation times.
• Lets you create an account to save recipes.
• Has forums for users’ interaction.
• Contains various tools to help cooking e.g. calorie counter, measurements converter, and timer.
• Has a mobile friendly version.
• Provides a cross-platform desktop application.
• Will soon be launching a smartphone app.
• Similar tools: ManTestedRecipes, CookDinner and Plummelo.
• Also read related articles:
  3 Great Online Resources To Learn How To Cook Well
  Yummly ““ A Recipe Search Engine to Spice up Your Cooking
  Great Cooking Websites from a Different Perspective.

Check out Cooklet @ www.cooklet.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Cook Dinner is a free to use recipe website with a wonderful interface. After creating an account on the site and logging into it, you will get a recipes view in which thumbnails of each dish are shown. Click on any image to highlight it and its time duration will be displayed. You can choose to add the recipe to your recipes list.

You can then view the recipe’s details like ingredients and preparation method. Along with duration and the number of people each dish will serve, a breakdown of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, etc. is also shown.

The site also has a number of other features which makes it a wonderful tool for cooking enthusiasts.

Features:

• Learn how to make a delicious meal.
• Each recipe carries a user rating with it.
• Thorough information about each dish is provided: its preparation time, ingredients, preparation procedure, and food components breakdown.
• You can opt to receive weekly emails from the site that notify of new recipes.
• Similar tools: RecipeChimp, Food Pair, RecipePuppy, MyFridgeFood, NibbleDish, Foodista, VegetarianRecipe.us, VisualRecipes and Cookstr.
• Also read related tools:
  Yummly ““ A Recipe Search Engine to Spice up Your Cooking
  3 Free Cocktail Recipes Sites To Help You Make The Perfect Drink
  FOOD Love: Top 5 Recipe Websites.

Check out “CookDinner” @ www.cookdinner.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

As soon as you go to the website, you see a suggestion on what to make for dinner. From there, you can either click on I don’t fucking like that to see more suggestions, click on I don’t fucking eat meat to see vegetarian dishes or click on the name of the dish to view its complete recipe.

It is one of the simplest and to-the-point cooking suggestion site on the web.

Features:

• Get suggestions on what to have for dinner.
• Click on the item to view full recipe.
• Click to see more suggestions.
• Choose to see vegetarian or meat dishes.
• No registration required.

Visit WhatTheFuckShouldIMakeForDinner @ www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com