Many of you might consider Martha Stewart to be kinda boring, but let me tell you that you are going to change your mind completely as soon as you try this application. When you first start the app, you’ll be asked to sign up for a ZipList account. I wasn’t sure what signing up would entail, so I skipped that part, and you can skip it also, I always tend to avoid mass email advertising as mush as I can. After that, you will be immediately presented with a recommendation for “dinner tonight”. These recommendations usually fall in the “quick recipe” category – meals that take less that 30 minutes to cook – although you can customize which types of recipes it will offer in the options menu. Another cool feature of the “dinner tonight” recommendation, is that you can hit the “swap it” button and the app will offer you a twist on the current recipe. It may be swapping out the meat for vegetarian ingredients, or a different cooking method, but this “swapping,” adds some depth to the recipes offered to the user, and gives the option to switch things up if you don’t find the recommended dish enticing. And if you are interested in more recipes you can always check out the search lab. This app also features a shopping list from every single recipe, a feature that might really come in handy if you are having a dinner party, or simply a barbecue at your backyard. Really, there are very little cooking applications that might measure up to this one. Even tough it has a few kinks and twitches, I would really recommend this application for a mass usage. Do you still think Martha is boring?
No disrespect intended to the vegetarians but research has shown that sometimes meat can actually be good for us, but only if it is cooked and prepared in the right amount and in the right way, because we all want to eat healthy food. And who might know more about meat than the very person that brings it to our table, the butcher. If you are having any second doubts about the meats location on the animal, or the best way to cook it, or whether it is good for you or not, you can simply Ask The Butcher. The Ask The Butcher app opens with a few simple choices including a Diagram of Cuts from Lamb, Beef, Veal and Pork. There is also a List of Cuts, and the simple Ask a Question which searches the database contained in the app. Once the preliminary selection is made the app user can then find out how best to cook a particular cut.Users can locate a few excellent recipes for that particular piece of meat, and even use the Purchase feature to find local vendors of high quality meats. Whether you need to learn how to barbecue ribs, prepare a rack of lamb, or make a great meat loaf, this is the app to help you get flawless results. No other app out there gives you as detailed descriptions or answers to your questions like this one, because its sole purpose is to help you find the right food for you, your health and your body. Our body is a temple, and we should try and keep it clean and healthy, and we can only do that if we consume healthy food.
Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals app features 50 delicious new recipes, gorgeous step-by-step photography throughout and 21 exclusive Jamie Oliver videos with cooking tips, hints and techniques. Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals also features many world-firsts including voice-prompts from Jamie while you cook; an interactive shopping list which conveniently sorts by supermarket aisle for speedier selection in-store; powerful search by ingredient or recipe; option to easily adjust ingredients by number of guests. If you’re unsure what to cook, Jamie’s 20 Minute Meals can even suggest a recipe for you with a quick shake of the phone.These days people are so busy and always on-the-go but they’re rarely without their phones,” said Jamie. “When I set to work on this iPhone app, I wanted to make sure I gave people everything they would need to help them create great tasting, homemade meals in around 20 minutes – that’s less time that it would take to order and receive a delivered meal and yours will taste better.
There is not a single person that doesn’t like grilled food. Take a look at the app from Weber called On the Grill loaded with more than 250 classic Weber recipes and hundreds of cooking tips. Browse recipes by ingredient, tag favorites, and even create a master shopping list for your grilling recipes that you can take with you to the store. The app has an integrated timer to remind you when to stop grilling. This is an application designed for all those gourmand out there. It includes everything, from starter dishes to desserts. Yes it is that marvelous. Imagine having a book with all kinds of recipes, and the most useful tips you could ever find simply at the palm of your hand. Well Webster’s On The Grill is the right application for you, there is no doubt about that. All in all, this is a pretty cool app to have around. For the beginner, it’s a great help in getting started since the app almost takes you by the hand and guides you from start to finish. Experienced grillers will find the app handy for a last minute meal decision, with shopping list ready to go. If you love to grill or barbecue, you are going to love this app! Weber’s On the Grill features 250 classic Weber recipes plus 40 recipes for rubs, marinades, and sauces that are sure to get you fired up to get out and grill. You can tag your favorites, and even create a master grocery list for your grilling recipes that you can take with you to the store. There’s a timer within the app, too, so you know exactly when to take your food off the grill. Learn essential grilling techniques for taking your skills to the next level. Watch short instructional grilling videos by celebrity chef and cookbook author Jamie Purviance. Tag your favorite recipes and techniques for future reference. Time recipes with the grill timer, right in the app. Your phone or device will ding and vibrate when the timer goes off. You also can check grilling times in our grill guides for red meat, pork, poultry, seafood, veggies, and fruit.
We live at a time that allows us to purchase most fruits and vegetables all year long. Through the use of mass-transportation, chemicals, and warehouses, produce grown half way around the world is often picked green, shipped and ripened in warehouses under questionable conditions. Because of the environmental and nutritious impact of this food system, some have made a conscious decisions to select only locally grown produce. When standing on the produce isle of our local market how are we assured that our desired choice is in season and grown locally? By consulting the Locavore iPhone app. It is a very sharp looking app with useful features such as listings of local markets, links to recipes on Wikipedia and Epicurius.com, and many more.
Seafood guide is a wonderful application for those who want to make as little impact as they can on our fragile environment. It is quite practical, far more practical then to carry different cards with fish pictures on them. All you have to do is type the species of the fish and you get everything you need to know about it, a naturalistic photograph, from its origins, its natural habitat, whether it’s on the endangered species list or not, and many more useful information that can help us make the right choice, because the nature is not the only thing we are endangering, it’s our health to. We have to be extra careful for the region that represents the fish’s natural habitat, whether it’s polluted or not, if it is then what is it’s degree or pollution and similar information that no other application can offer you. For example, if you type Arctic Char then you will find out that it is farmed in and ecological manner, which means it’s farming takes as little pollution as possible, you can learn that it is fished recreationally and commercially and that its main market is located in the U.S. The depth of information is amazing, you instantly get hundreds of choices with just one click.
Good news for all those wannabe cooks who just can’t get the hang of cooking just quite yet. Epicurious’ Recipes & Shopping List allows users to browse and search our 25,000 professionally created recipes, toggling between an easy-to-view shopping format, and a cooking format that shows one instruction step at a time. So now your really get the chance toa learn how to move about in the kitchen. By selecting icons on the search screen, you can filter by what’s in your fridge, what’s healthy, what’s in season or browse by type of dish, main ingredient, cuisine, dietary consideration, dish type, and season or occasion. So you can be up and ready for any kind of challenge. You can also simply search by keyword. You can even create a shopping list based on the recipe you want to choose. Another great part is that you can tap “view recipe” and turn the iPhone or iTouch on its side to see the recipe ingredients and then each step, so that you can easily read the recipe while actually cooking it in the kitchen. But absolutely the coolest part is that this app is absolutely and completely free of charge. So iphoners let’s get cooking!
