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Recipe+Wiki=Wikipes!

Wikipes is a wiki based recipe site. Wiki's are community contributed sites.

In other words, we allow anyone to contribute recipes. Our feeling is that this will create a more diverse collection of unique and delicious recipes and in the long run you’ll be able to choose from a vast archive of drinks, appetizers, main dishes, desserts; the possibilities are endless!

Looks like this has possibilities. For instance try the Egg McMornin in the Quickies recipe section. Try it out and let me know what you think.

101 Cookbooks

101 Cookbooks seeks to explore the best recipes from the author's collection of cookbooks. The author, Heidi, is a cookbook author herself and really understands what a reader is looking for in the exploration fo a recipe. Not just how to make it, but why it works. If you're looking for some advice one which recipes to make from your dusty cookbook collection, you could do much worse than start here.

A Basic Risotto

On of the biggest disappointments in fine dining I've ever suffered through was a circa 1995 night at La Cirque in NYC (a location that has now closed apparently). Everyone else enjoyed their meals, (although the Palenta and Mole appetizer was quite bland) but I selected the mushroom risotto; a dish that had no taste, the consistancy of elmer's glue, and a greyish brown color that reminded me of dirt. Since then I have been on the hunt for a great basic risotto recipe that has plenty of taste, a pleasurable texture, and some sort of attractive color. It's been a rough journey.

The one I've been using recently is from Chef Giada De Laurentiis host of Everyday Italian on FoodTV . I've made it with and without white wine (I prefer it without) and my best result was using Romano instead of Parmasean cheese. It tasted richer and the cheese aroma was lovely.

I just found one at Jamie Oliver's (what ever happened to him anyway? he just dropped out of sight) website. It suggests using vermouth in place of wine. Can't wait to try that. Are there any others out there you would suggest?

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