Websites containing recipes, tutorials and whatnot. I try to sort them, but most fall into more than one category.
General (all kinds of food related topics)
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Skillet | Lifehacker blog on food. |
| The Kitchn | Inspiring cooks, nourishing homes. Covering food, utensils and much much more |
| Food52 | . |
| bon appétit | Recipes, cooking advice, restaurant recommendations, … |
| The faux martha | A woman who prefers simplicity to chaos. Recipes, cooking and household tips based on minimalism. |
| Savory Simple | Savory Simple focuses on well-tested, reliable recipes and tutorials for the home cook |
| Serious Eats | Food and drink website with rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat. Famous for J. Kenji Lopez Alt and elaborate articles on new ways to cook like toasted sugar. Have a look at their Food Lab |
| First We Feast | First We Feast views food as an illuminating lens into pop culture, music, travel, and more through its innovative slate of food-driven video franchises (such as Hot Ones). |
| Tasting Table | Came on my radar because of a recipe for a Korean compound butter. |
| BBC Good Food | Recipes, reviews and kitchen hacks from across the pond (as seen from the NL ;)) |
| Nombelina | Exotic recipes like this one |
| Great British Chefs | Or check out their own Italian counterpart |
Recipes
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| I am a Food Blog | Travel inspired recipes |
| Fifteen spatulas | Recipes for home cooks |
| Oh my foodness | Dutch food blog |
| A couple cooks | Blog for home cooks. Even has a section on how to cut different ingredients. |
| Just a taste | . |
| Simply Recipes | Recipes and cooking advice for home cooks, by home cooks |
| The Happy Foodie | Curated recipes from (famous) UK chefs like Jamie Oliver, Nadiya Hussain and Nigella Lawson. |
| Key Ingredient | Many recipes like a black forest fruit espresso pavlova <= Yum. |
| Amigo Foods | Latin food recipes |
| The Spruce Eats | The Spruce Eats evolved from a 25-year archive of recipes generated by chefs, teachers, cookbook writers, home cooks, food makers, and more. |
| Food and Friends | Dutch site with recipes from Jamie Oliver and many other chefs. Beeramisu anyone? |
| Sainsbury magazine | British store magazine with recipes like spanakopita. |
| Macheesmo | . |
| But first Chai | Recipes from around the globe but focused on South-Asian and Middle Eastern food. Recipes are tried and perfected for two (maybe three). |
| Ask Chef Dennis | . |
| Cuisine Culinaire Hilversum | Dutch cooking club |
| Cuisine Culinaire Amsterdm | |
| Keukenvuur | |
| Ongewoon Lekker | Not only food but also cocktails! |
| Jules Cooking | Wow… how elaborate but also how cool, like his brioche feuillete |
| NY Times Cooking | |
| Mexican Please | Mexican recipes, like a cascabel chile salsa |
| Mistrix | |
| Ceze.fr | |
| French cooking academy | |
| Bourgondisch Heeren-genootschap Korsakow | |
| Mai Cookbook | Maybe try a simple japanese cookie |
| I will not eat oysters | |
| Keukenmeid | Dutch woman who also likes asian flavourings |
| Zelfmaak recepten | |
| The Flavor Lab | Also some tutorials, like how to mold tempered chocolate |
| Jessies Cuisine | Great recipes that require a bit more than home cooking like a creme brulée with hazelnut, blackberry en blueberry - Jessie’s Cuisine |
| Brooklyn Supper | Fresh, seasonal recipes |
| Perpetually Hungry | Site is not maintained anymore but these steak and cheese stuffed pretzel bites are amazing |
Bakery & Pastry
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| I am baker | . |
| Life love and sugar | Live, laugh, love. But then with sugar. |
| Oh Sweet Day! | . |
| Uit de keuken van Levine | Dutch site from someone who loves baking bread but also has many other kinds of recipes |
| King Arthur Baking | Site with nice recipes, but given that American flour is very distinct from Dutch flour I keep adapting recipes after trying them for the first time |
| The Kitchn Baking School | A free 20 day course from the Kitchn. |
| Gwenn’s Bakery | |
| Rutger Bakt | |
| The Pantry Mama | Sourdough |
| Baking like a chef | |
| Ana’s baking chronicles | If only because there is a copycat Ben’s cookies recipe… |
| Laura’s Bakery | |
| Preppy Kitchen | E.g. for italian buttercream |
| Tartelynn | Tartelette & entremet recipes like this one |
| Pastry Arts Magazine | Gorgeous desserts like an olive oil pana cotta |
| Baking Mad | Gonna try to make shokupan |
| Bake from scratch | |
| King Arthur Baking | |
| All you knead is bread | |
| Partylicious | Canales, Lemon posset and other necessities in life. |
| A Baking Journey | |
| Sally’s Baking Addiction | |
| Iron Whisk | Site is not maintained anymore but has nice tutorials like the eclair tutorial |
Preserving
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| WECKENonline | Dutch site on preserving (various techniques) |
| Inmaken en wecken |
Thermomix
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Wunderkessel | Wunderkessel - German cooking community |
| The Mix Australia | Recipe blog of an Australian Thermomix vendor |
| Alleskunner | Belgian Thermomix vendor |
| De KokMadam | Belgian Véronique Ameye who writes thermomix recipe books |
| Thermobliss | Maybe their fudge recipe is less of a hassle than using a pot on the stove. |
| A canadian foodie | Thermomix independent consultant. Not only thermomix recipes. |
| Clever cooking | Thermomix representative from Belgium |
| Gette | Dutch site with not only thermomix recipes. |
| (Marianne Dirckx | Dutch Thermomix demonstrator |
| Thermorecetas | Spanish site available in multiple languages. |
| Love2Cook | Belgian vendor of thermomix |
| Cookomix | French |
| Cacio e pepe | Video on Italian dish with one thermomix variant |
Vegetarian/Vegan
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Insanely good recipes | Not only vegetarian recipes on this site, but it’s a start to look here. |
| Forks over knives | . |
| The Tasty K | |
| Not enough Cinnamon | Also other non-veg recipes like chicken marbella. |
| Vegan Food & Living | For example what to do with aquafaba. |
| Vanilla & Bean | |
| Feasting at home | |
| The First Mess | |
| Full of Plants | Vegan rillettes or ‘faux’ gras anyone? |
| Plant Based School | |
| The Hidden Veggies | |
| Addicted to Dates | Vegan desserts |
| Willamette Transplant | Vegan Hazelnut Ricotta Cheese |
| Ethivegan | |
| My Vegan Provence | Youtube channel of Lionel Roudaut |
| PlantYou | Fluff it up with vegan marshmallows |
| Happy Food, Healthy Life | |
| Eigenwijs Blij |
Videos
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Binging with Babish | . |
| Joshua Weissman | . |
| French Guy Cooking | Food nerd that explores everything, has a website. Love his elaboration on the mother sauces. |
| FoodTube NL | Like how to debone a lamb |
| Njam! | Belgian cooking channel |
| Eten met Nick | |
| NYT Cooking | Like what to make with buttery dough |
Other
| Site | Comment |
|---|---|
| Knife skills online course | A comprehensive course on kitchen knife skills, the best ways to cut different fruits and veggies, instructed by professional chef Brendan McDermott. If you’ve finished that one take a look at this GIF tutorial from a New York chef. |
| FAQs on Food | Various food topic FAQs. |
| Cooking issues | Abandoned blog, but has a nice sous vide primer. |
| Morning Chores | Information on how to grow a thriving garden, raise healthy livestock, build things by yourself, save money without pinching pennies, and learn new skills that will make your life easier. Also has a nice food&drink category. |
| They Draw | Drawn visualisations, also drawn recipes. |
| SortedFood | As they say themselves: “These days, it’s not just about us messing around with gadgets, staging epic cooking battles or competing with each other for laughs. It’s about a community of people who love to eat, laugh and learn the odd thing about cooking.” |
| Kokswereld | Dutch forum for cooks. Site itself also has nice information like tasting combos. |
| Onno Kleyn | . |
| Dorothy Porker | Previously in Dutch known as ‘Vette Sletten’ and a gentle reminder for myself to score a bundle of the Lucky Peach magazine. |
| Hill Street Grocer | Hmmm…. togarashi? |
| Reluctant Gourmet | |
| Fusionchef | Recipes for sous vide but also contains subrecipes for nice components |
| Instructables | Full of tutorials, like fermenting your own hotsauce |
| The Sporkful | Podcast for eaters |
| Diet Doctor | Low carb, keto and other dietary recipes but seemingly tasty like an oxtail stifado with orange |
| Recepten - De Tuinen van MergenMetz | Recipes from people with their own vegetable garden |
| Keukenvuur |