5 Creative Recipe Sites to Fulfill Your Cooking Desires

I thoroughly enjoy a good meal, yet lack the skills necessary to create my own personal recipe that’s results would actually enhance  the flavor of a dish. I admittedly rely on my wife to execute a delicious meal and luckily she comes through on a consistent basis. Regardless of the level of cooking expertise you may have,  you can never have enough recipes. When I do need to scrap together a recipe, I can count on the sites below to help me create some of the tastiest and most creative recipes.

In addition to the sites below, I also want to mention an upcoming blog, Marcy’s The Cooking Rut. She shares some of her best recipes and provides some helpful lessons along the way. Be sure to check it out.

Epicurious features recipes, menus, articles, guides, a recipe of the day for each category, and much more. You can even get an iPhone App to have all your favorites recipes on the go.

Cooking For Engineers – Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded brings us cooking tests displaying various unique cooking experiments, recommendations for dining out, kitchen notes, an ingredient dictionary, etc. I found the Beer Can Chicken experiment interesting.

101 Cookbooks is a recipe journal that primarily focuses on natural, whole foods and ingredients. You’ll find countless vegetarian and environmental friendly recipes.

Taste Spotting is a cool, visual site that provides some tasty looking images, which link to recipes, stories, experiences, articles, and much more. Many of the content is user-submitted and approved and selected by the editorial team.

Cooking By Numbers is a fun and easy way to find recipes, based on the ingredients you have. Simply check off the ingredients you have in your refrigerator and cupboard, then click go and find various customized recipe ideas and references.

Do you have any favorite sites you use for recipes? Have you created or found any must-taste recipes lately? Feel free to share your thoughts, recipes and just about anything else you’d like to mention (minus spam of course