Recipes

Last Updated: 24/09/2008 12:23

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As I honestly believe that anyone can cook if they just have the confidence

I have included here a list of recipes I have that have been put in “idiot proof” format.

The recipes go into great detail as to how to cook any dish

And will even explain how to perform the simplest of tasks in cooking

Every recipe lists the steps needed to prepare the dish in 1-2-3 steps

So as long as you can read it, you can cook it!

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I have even included recipes made only with the use of your microwaves (no oven required)!

Because every vegetarian seems to have a different opinion as to what constitutes a vegetarian dish (no meat, no dairy, no fish, etc), I could not guarantee that any recipes would be completely acceptable to all vegetarians, so the best I could think of doing was giving you a list of “meat free” recipes, and allowing you to make your own minds up as to what is acceptable to yourselves.

Please do not be intimidated by any of the recipes here!

I have tested them all on complete novices (and even on 5 year old children)

All of them are incredibly easy to make!

If you would like to add your own recipe to this site, please feel free to follow this link and add it on my forum, where I will copy it onto this site itself. All contributions are welcome, as it’s a never-ending job in finding and adding new recipes for everyone’s enjoyment.

In many recipes, you will see a link, which means that there is more information on that subject, or ingredient available at a click of your mouse. My reason for including all these links (and some may appear to be obvious to those that feel they already know how to treat certain foods) is simple – when I started cooking, and following recipes, I could easily follow the instructions given to me, but found myself using poor quality ingredients, or not knowing how to properly perform a step in the recipe (for example; a recipe may just say “mash the potatoes”, and so the logical thing to do is to just bash the potatoes into a pulp instead of adding milk and butter as the writer of the recipe intended). Although, in most cases, the use of poor ingredients, or not understanding what the writer of the recipe exactly meant in a process may not actually ruin the dish, by using the particular type of ingredient, or style of process that the writer intended the dish is made better, looks better and has the taste, texture, smell and look that the cook originally expected and desired. Given the example used of mashed potatoes in a dish – if the novice cook weren’t told that certain types of potato are better for using for mashing than others, or that adding a little milk and butter improves the texture of the potatoes, then the dish would not turn out as well as it could have done. If the dish does not come out as expected, the novice cook may decide that it is their fault and not try making that dish again. I honestly believe that everyone can cook IF they are given the knowledge and instruction on how and what to make, dishes are only spoiled or turn out not as good as expected, where the recipe assumes more knowledge of the cook than they actually have.

Only the links to making the dishes are listed here, but almost every recipe will have links in it to tell you how to make various parts of it.

You may also find this Conversion Table useful for converting imperial to metric measurements, or for oven temperatures or for tips on how to measure ingredients correctly.

If you would prefer to see all the recipes listed in Excel format (with links to each recipe and a breakdown of what category each recipe belongs to) then feel free to open my own listing of recipes at http://www.salohcin.co.uk/recipes/recipe_list.xls

This is the Excel file that I use to keep track of what recipe goes where and what subcategories they are listed under. It will give an up to the date list of every cooking related page I put on the site.

I admit that I have had a few worries about what category to put some recipes into, and I have done my best to find the correct category / categories for each recipe. If I felt that a dish has its origin in more than one country, then I have put it under miscellaneous. If you disagree with how I have categorised any recipe, please forgive me, but having over 20,000 recipes to type up on my own, I don’t have time to get every single one right. I have done the best that I can to provide this completely free site, so please forgive any errors I may have made.

I would also like to point out that I claim no original authorship of all these recipes (I am a mere mortal and couldn’t possibly have created all these recipes myself). They are collected from all kinds of sources from all over the world and from all kinds of different people.

Firstly, here’s an external link that I was sent to do with washing up and kitchen hygiene. It’s funny, so I thought I’d include it (after asking permission of course).

http://www.fridgemagnet.org.uk/kitchen.shtml

As yet I have only added:

1,392 Recipe pages (where I have multiple recipes for the same dish, they appear all on the same page)

355 Pages of Ingredients Descriptions

76 “How To” Pages

I still have many more pages left to add and I shall be doing so as quickly as I am able to.

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British Recipes

Soups and Starters	Vegetables	Eggs and Cheese	Fish and Seafood	Poultry and Game

Meat Dishes	Puddings	Baking	Sundry Recipes

Italian Recipes

Pasta Dishes	Sauces, Soups & Broths	Pasta From The Microwave	Sweet Dishes	Other Italian Dishes

German Recipes

Vorspeisen - First Courses	Soups	Vegetable Dishes	Fish Dishes	Poultry Dishes

Game Dishes	Meat Dishes	Desserts	Cakes	Basic Recipes

French Recipes

Spanish Recipes

Greek Recipes

Other Western European Recipes

Other Eastern European Recipes

Chinese Recipes

Chinese Bean Curd and Egg Recipes	Chinese Dim Sum and Desserts	Chinese Fish and Shellfish	Chinese Meat

Chinese Poultry	Chinese Rice and Noodles	Chinese Soups	Chinese Vegetables