Anonymous wrote:I've reached the conclusion that nearly all cooking blogs and instagram recipes are total garbage and I've reverted to cooking almost exclusively from my cookbook collection.

America's Test Kitchen recipes (or Cooks Illustrated in printed form) ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS work, because they test everything thousands of times, but they can also get tedious.

I also like Milk Street, which is a spinoff (in an unhappy split) with more of an international flavor. Not as rigourously tested, but almost always work. I have a bunch of those and some old school Gourmets and Bon Appetits from when they still had good TESTED recipes.

The gamechanger for me was the website eatyourbooks.com which, for a small annual fee, allows you to put in all of your cookbooks and issues of cooking magazines and then it indexes all of the recipes in them.

So, let's say I'm standing in my kitchen and I have chicken thighs and a bag of carrots, and I can type in those ingredients to the search box and it goes and finds every recipe in my cookbook collection and cooking mags and tells me the ingredients and what page to find them. Has me using my cookbooks again.

If I go on the web I basically wind up at NYT recipes or finding old school Food Network recipes, again, from when they were tested.