TwingleMum
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I'm looking for some new inspiration. What baking/cooking websites do you love?? I usually go to 1. Epicurious 2. All recipes 3. Foodtv 4.cdkitchen
I like sites like allrecipes.com and love to read the reviews - but they drive me crazy! "I made it exactly like the recipe said, but I changed x to x and added more x and then I baked it instead of boiled it." It's hard to find a review of the actual recipe!
I get it, because I cook that way too, but why review the recipe if you didn't use it?
How can you do that???I like sites like allrecipes.com and love to read the reviews - but they drive me crazy! "I made it exactly like the recipe said, but I changed x to x and added more x and then I baked it instead of boiled it." It's hard to find a review of the actual recipe!
I get it, because I cook that way too, but why review the recipe if you didn't use it?
My new favorite is Taste of Home.


I like sites like allrecipes.com and love to read the reviews - but they drive me crazy! "I made it exactly like the recipe said, but I changed x to x and added more x and then I baked it instead of boiled it." It's hard to find a review of the actual recipe!
I get it, because I cook that way too, but why review the recipe if you didn't use it?




That I find helpful to a point because I like to know if others felt it needed more garlic, less liquid, if the cooking time was off or if they did it stove top instead of in the crock pot etc. What drives me nuts are reviews where people changed quite a bit then slammed the dish. IE "I used pork instead of chicken, I did not have fresh garlic so I used powder, I used fat free half and half instead of cream and subbed the sundried tomatoes with roasted peppers. The flavors were off - my family hated it and we won't be making it again"
I love All Recipes because you can sort by rating if you are looking for something "tried and true"![]()