friederike

Site improvements & suggestions
Great ideas, Andrew! Maybe the links page could have different sections?

Comment by friederike February 2011 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
Most "if you like this recipe you might like..."-fields (on blogs, etc.) are generated automatically, based on clicks. I actually like the idea of us being able to suggest dishes based on another one (a bit like member recommendations on L…

Comment by friederike February 2011 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
Read your comment just now, Andrew - would be great if something like that could be integrated in the site!

Comment by friederike January 2011 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
What if you posted them on a blog? You could do so either privately or publicly, whatever you prefer. As to the communal aspect - I personally wouldn't mind, to me it would be like any other cookbook I don't happen to own.

Comment by friederike January 2011 permalink
Linking recipes
In such cases I actually always post two reviews, though I mark both of them as a crosspost with a link to the other review. I thought about just placing a link to the website in the body of the review. However, this has the disadvantage that the re…

Comment by friederike January 2011 permalink
How do you rate recipes?
It's interesting to see how opinions differ, especially on how strict people are with rating, and whether they rate complex dishes higher or lower than simple ones. I try to be strict, because otherwise I'd probably give all reviews the …

Comment by friederike January 2011 permalink
Experimenting with ads
I don't mind the ads either (as long as they aren't moving too much) and think that for maintinaing the site it's a very good idea. I'd also pay an annual fee for the ability to add reviews of my personal recipes.

Comment by friederike December 2010 permalink
Future Challenges
You could also do an ingredient-challenge: Pick one ingredient, or a combination of several, and ask everyone to review dishes containing these ingredients as main/dominating ingredient...

Comment by friederike November 2010 permalink
Future Challenges
During the Football (Soccer) World Cup I thought about a world challenge too, or rather about a Playing Team-Challenge: Cook one course per country of the playing teams and then let your fancy decide who won the dinner match... :o) Don't know h…

Comment by friederike September 2010 permalink
Future Challenges
@cadfael - you could copy & paste the recipes to a Word document and then print. One step extra, admittedly, but that works too.

Comment by friederike September 2010 permalink
Importing your library
Yay to tags!!

Comment by friederike September 2010 permalink
Future Challenges
I would like to suggest The Moosewood Cookbook as a vegetarian option, or Ottolenghi's Plenty! For Middle Eastern Cuisine, Claudia Roden's books seem to be a golden standard, either Arabesque or The Book of Jewish Food. And I second the Zu…

Comment by friederike September 2010 permalink

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