5 Fun Culinary Challenges to Improve Your Cooking Skills
It's all too easy to lose your passion in the kitchen or to feel that your skills have plateaued. Luckily, these challenges exist to test your skills and reinvigorate your outlook on cooking.
My Week With Soylent: Why Nerds Are Forgoing Food
As I write this, I'm sipping from a glass of beige ooze which is, theoretically, lunch. Here's what Soylent is, and why you might be interested.
Where to Find Free Online Cooking & Baking Classes
Where do you go if you want to approach cooking and baking systematically? Most online cooking courses are paid, but these seven are both free and excellent.
Cook More Creative Meals With These 6 Cooking Shows
Want to cook up something a little more creative in the kitchen? These TV shows will spark you with inspiration and push you in the right direction.
Smart Kitchen Appliances You'll Wonder How You Lived Without
No other part of the home is so perfectly set up for taking advantage of the advent of smart gadgets than the kitchen, where benefits can be brought to tech lovers and lazy people alike.
Game of Thrones Leaks Online, Old Spice Starts to Twitch, & More... [Tech News Digest]
Game of Thrones leaks, Old Spice on Twitch, Apple Watch sells out, Google avoids spoilers, IBM Watson writes a cookbook, and Star Wars takes revenge on Los Angeles.
You Won't Believe The Things You Can Do With A Microwave
A microwave can't make scrambled eggs, can it? Your microwave can do that and more!
Love Food & Healthy Recipes? Check Out These Windows 8 Apps
Get great meal ideas for all types of diets. With a portable touchscreen device, you can even prepare your meals with your computer in the kitchen!
Intimidated by Cooking? 6 Simple Tips to Conquer Your Kitchen Fears
Eating out is awesome, but it doesn’t compare to the experience of cooking a meal from scratch. But it’s far too common for people to hold a phobia of the kitchen.
6 YouTube Cooking Channels Where Professional Chefs Share Their Secrets
Interested in sharpening your kitchen skills? It's the pro chefs you should listen to. You'd be surprised to know that some of the best in the business run channels on YouTube.
5 Epic Vegan Blogs For The Best Plant-Based Recipes
A plant-based diet might not be everyone's idea of a great time, but if you decide to take the plunge you'll soon find the Internet is your new best friend.
Cook with Jamie Oliver On Your Windows 8 PC or Tablet
Cooking with recipes found online can be a hassle when it comes to printing or writing recipes down. How does British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's Recipes app for iOS and Windows 8 help?
Discover The World Through Food With Cookening: The Airbnb Of Meals
Introducing the Airbnb of food! Cookening doesn't actually have anything to do with Airbnb, but being an Airbnb veteran guest myself, I couldn't help but notice the resemblance between the two services. The only difference is that with Cookening, you don't get a place to stay, you get a home-cooked meal from a local. Or, if you're the local, you get to cook and host tourists in your house.
Evernote Food: A Beautiful Way to Keep Track of Your Favorite Meals, Recipes, and Restaurants [Android]
What'd you have for breakfast this morning? How about two weeks ago? And hey, remember that time you and your friends went to that really fancy Japanese restaurant? If you're a bit fuzzy on the last two questions (or even on the first), Evernote Food is a great way to answer them. I covered Evernote Food for Android before, when all it could do was log your meals. Now it's time to give it another look, thanks to an all-new version that adds fun ways to track down new recipes and restaurants, as well as a fresh new look.
Start Forking: Open Source Inspiration Comes To Cooking & Recipes With Fork The Cookbook
Fork the Cookbook is an unusual take on the idea of a cooking application. It is the Github for recipes with “version control”. With Fork the Cookbook, it is all about the evolution of food – how you can adapt, change, modify, or tweak every time to come up with interesting variations. It makes the cooking (and sharing) experience a bit easier.
Not Just Recipes: 4 iPad Apps That Teach You To Cook [iOS]
Owning an iPad has changed the way I cook and bake in my kitchen. I can now load everything on my iPad, place it in the closest spot where it still wouldn't get dirty, and cook to my heart's content. While some cooking apps are nothing but recipe managers or collections of general recipes that are never quite clear enough, good results will come from cooking apps that actually teach you how to cook.
Yummly Lets You Share Recipes Just by Saying "Yum"
Fans of online recipe sites may have heard of Yummly before as it's been around for a while. But recently it's had one hell of a spruce-up and added a whole lot of new social features and other updates to the site. Browsing Yummly has never looked better and sharing recipes is now as easy as pressing "Yum".
7 Vegetarian Recipe Sites For The Struggling Former Meat Eater
Little did I know that there's a virtual smorgasbord of foods when it comes to vegetables, grains, beans and nuts. I really wish I'd explored these websites before, and I'm pleased to offer them as a resource to anyone else out there that might be getting started in this strange new world called vegetarianism (or veganism...if that's your flavor).
Some Useful Websites To Aid You In Your Daily Routine
We all have a daily routine of some sort but there are many things that we all do, whether it is checking the weather, managing our finances or making our next meal. I’ve scoured the web to find some of the best websites to help you do these day-to-day tasks. After some research and great results I’ve narrowed down the list to what I think are the best websites in various categories of what we do almost every day.
5 Tech Projects For The Mini Farmer
With food prices at a record high, chaotic weather systems destroying crops the world over, and no signs of population growth slowing down anytime soon - never has growing your own produce been more important than it is right now. So as city dwellers turn to mini-farming, technology is playing an increasingly important role in maximising crop yields from a small place. Today I’d like to highlight some of those great projects.