food.com

Today I discovered food.com.  What is this?  It's a handy little application that lets you search through recipes indexed from the best recipe sources on the web, and allows you to store the ones you like - all in one place.  The 'net, not being my strong suit, I decided to try my best to explore what this is.  It turns out, it's really easy to understand and use.  Simply download the application, log out of your browser, and then when you re-enter, you'll have a little recipe toolbar:

I first serached for banana bread, reasoning that there are a ton of recipes for banana bread. And there were! But the 2587 search results within food.com came out super organized and from reputable sources (epicurious.com, foodandwine.com, etc.).

The recipe I liked was Caramel Banana Bread Puddings - not exactly what I was looking for; perhaps better?  It had received 4 out of 4 forks in Epicurious' ratings so I clicked "Add to my recipe box." You can click the URL to see the full recipe or, once you've added it to your recipe box, you can access it (from the toolbar) that way.  I am still exploring this app, but so far so good.  I can create recipe collections and specify my favorites.  I can also upload my own recipes - non-internet based - so as to manage those as well.

Food.com is still in beta, but that doesn't mean you should wait to start using it.  I can't count the number of ripped-out recipes I have stashed in various file folders around my office and apartment... not to mention the random ones I have bookmarked.  Food.com's toolbar, with such an easy searching capacity, has already guided me towards a collection of recipes that I want to try - and I don't have to worry about losing them in clutter.