We have a few cooking websites that we like a lot, and turn to in times of stress or in search of new foods.
The Woks of Life: This is maybe our favourite food site. It's a family-run blog with an amazing range of chinese recipes (well-indexed), they're very funny, and they're also
really enthusiastic about lard. All of their recipes work great, too.
In the Kitchen With Haifa: Sahar's mum has a food site! It's
really really good, but also only in Arabic (there are lots of process pictures though, and google's 'translate this page' works fine). In particular, check out the
stuffed foods (hebronite speciality), and the
homemade juices.
Foodjimoto: Similar to Woks of Life, it's a sweet family cooking blog with a big range, japanese + japanese-american food. Not currently being updated (since 2014), and harder to search for recipes, but nice to read.
Just One Cookbook: This is a good japanese food site, not very homey but really huge range of recipes, clear instructions, and well-laid out.
Korean Bapsang: Really nice Korean-American mum cooking blog, big range of recipes, great soups and pickles.
Linda's Italian Table: Italian american food blog with a frankly wild aesthetic. We've yet to explore this one in depth but it's where the salt cod stew recipe came from, and has a good line in seafood generally. She has a book out called
'for love of crostini'
Nigel Slater: Publishes weekly recipes in the guardian, and has done for years -- so there's a huge range. Really wonderful food writer, and very good to turn to if you need to roast a meat. (nice cakes too)
Maangchi: Korean cooking blog run by a woman called Maangchi, with a huge range of recipes (in particular for
banchan, or side dishes). She's makes a lot of youtube cooking videos, and also her logo is a drawing of her holding a fish and a cleaver. Big on pickles.
veg recipes of india: Great indian vegetarian cooking blog run by a woman called Dassana, big emphasis on cooking everything from scratch. slow complex and really worth it, everything i have cooked from here is so tasty and the recipes are really well documented and laid out.
the ramen rater: This isn't really a recipe website but it's really great! The sheer number of instant noodles he's reviewed at this point is pretty amazing. Also some good
tips for making them more delicious. Very clinical tear-downs.