I come from a family of wonderful cooks. Sometimes I think my husband married me because of the benefits to his stomach (outer size and inner happiness). I owe my legacy to my grandmother (whose prowess in the kitchen caused the development of the term “Pearl’s Portion” to describe her idea of the minimal acceptable portion size for non-wussys), my other grandmother (a caterer with a huge cookbook collection), my mother, my brother (trained chef), & my sister-in-law (another trained chef).

So it should not be a surprise that I use the internet to find new recipes, methods for cooking, and ideas to guide me. I have previously used the old standards: Food TV, All Recipes, Hazelwood cookbook collection, and the occaisional phone call to my mom. I was delighted to find a new place to look: Big Oven.

I think Big Oven really wants to sell you their software— which is fine– but they allow you to look at and pull down recipes without any obligation. If you sign up, you can store favorite recipies on their site similar to All Recipies. Give them a try and post one of your family’s favorites!!!

Click here to find a more detailed description of all the cool functionality Big Oven has including an add in to the google toolbar.

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