BlogHer - Let's Take a Vacation -- from Recipes - Comments

Some of us food bloggers are less concerned about recipes

carondg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:18:50 -0500

and really dig the eating. I love to cook and I love to try new recipes, but fortunately I'm just as happy to discover -- and pass along -- places that have great prepared foods, especially when it comes to surviving hot weather. Right now, I'm developing a list of favorite hot-weather treats that you can pick up at the market and some ideas for easy dishes to throw together that require neither stovetop nor oven. If any of you have some favorites, let me know!

Caron Golden is a San Diego-based freelance writer and host of San Diego Foodstuff (www.sandiegofoodstuff.com) and the online radio show The Gourmet Club on signonradio.com. Listen in every Wednesday at 11 a.m. Pacific.

cooking and baking

eatmorehappy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:01:51 -0500

is my vacation!

Summer is perfect for recipe vacations

AdrianaWA — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:10:09 -0500

Summer is a great time to take a vacation from recipes! Lately I've just been showing up at the market or food coop, scooping up the produce, and eating it almost as-is. (OK, I do some washing and chopping.)

Plus it's just so hot -- I don't even want to cook, much less follow a recipe.

Summer's for salads, grilling, and fruit in hand.

Another thought

Candelaria Silva — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:57:59 -0500

Check out my latest post, "An Inconvenient Food"

blog.candelariasilva.com

Good and plenty!

Relax

Candelaria Silva — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:52:11 -0500

Sometimes just throwing together a few things on hand for simple yet delightful spontaneous bursts of food creativity is enough. We can over-complicate things.

blog.candelariasilva.com

Good and plenty!

Let's Take a Vacation -- from Recipes

Alanna Kellogg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:48:48 -0500

Many food bloggers, me included, are outright obsessed with cooking and recipes. We're always on the hunt. We scour cookbooks, food magazines, recipe sites, other food blogs -- and our brains -- to come up with one delicious recipe after. We plot. We cook. We tweak. We style. We shoot. We taste. We write. But c'mon. Don't we deserve a little recipe vacation?

But this is one vacation that skips the time-off, the packing, the maps, the gas and the e-mail deluge upon return. Let's check into some food-related sites -- ones without recipes -- that can add a little seasoning to our lives, and yes, once we're back all rested and relaxed from our 'recipe vacations', our own food blogs.

Curious Cook ~ by Harold McGee, the rock star author of On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (which, while not exactly a beach book, is both readable and reference-able, I pull out my own copy at least a couple of times a week) and New York Times columnist. You'll find plenty of practical information, like which foods should be stored in dark places and the most flavorful part of tomatoes.

Mouseprint ~ Exposes that devilish detail in the fine print, like the package downsizing of Tropicana Orange Juice and Breyers Ice Cream.

Michael Ruhlman: Notes from the Food World ~ we "know" Michael as an occasional judge on Iron Chef America and author of Elements of Cooking. He has thoughtful, often contrary views on many topics, say how fat is good for us.

Wasted Food ~ exposes the rampant food waste and challenges home cooks to rethink our kitchen habits.

ProBlogger ~ is a good daily vitamin for the 'business' of our food blogs, including this great post about community, building good relationships with bloggers.

What to Eat ~ Marion Nestle is the author of many food-related books, including the 2007 book What to Eat. She writes about food safety, food politics, obesity and recently posed questions about soft drink research.

Despite all good intentions, BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg remains recipe-obsessed. Discovering her own Mom's Blueberry Coffeecake recipe only fueled the obsession.