Hey all,

As I told you before I want to make a cooking scrapbook, or better, probably multiple scrapbooks :). I was surfing the web for interesting recipes (as James and I are regularly looking for new things) and I found a great website for free recipes.

The Site
Their site is looking very attractive to me. They have nice colors and all the most important parts are easily reachable from the menu. You are greeted with a photo with a nice meal (in my case I saw the meal from the Japanese Cuisine), they have a weekly poll and you can choose from a great variety of categories to search for free recipes.

Your account
You can register at the site to get a free account. If you want, you can also subscribe to their newsletter, so that you recieve recipes on a daily basis. One of the big advantages is that you can add every recipe you find to your own recipe box. That way you don't have to go looking between the thousands of recipes they have. Instead you can immediately access the recipe again.
You can also add your own recipe, which I think is great! This could be your online recipe box. And for those who don't want a mess in their house (like I have right now......), this is a wonderful way to keep your house clean and your recipes in order.

The recipes
With every recipe you'll get the following information (where necessary of course!):

• Servings
  
• Preparation time
  
• Cooking time (yes, there is a difference between the two :) )
  
• A list of ingredients
  
• Instructions
  

Added to this list, you'll notice at the bottom of the recipe that you can change the recipe to fit for more or less people for you want to make the meal. This is great way to get a list of ingredients of what YOU need, instead of the standard.
And for me as an added bonus, after all I am from the Netherlands, I can convert everything to metric scale, so that I don't have to wonder about the US Standard scales.

Extra features
The above is not all. What to think of a shopping list? For people like James and me, this is ideal. We usually do our grocery shopping in the weekend for the entire week. By adding the recipes to the shopping list, you'll have a complete list ready. How handy is that?
And one of the things I also really like is the forum. You can exchange experiences and ideas and much more. What's better than that?
And to top it all, you can also look for coupons. This always comes in handy!

Conclusion
I think this is a very neat website which I will visit frequently! I think this site will be a wonderful resource for all the recipes I'm going to use in my cooking scrapbook(s) Let me know what your experiences are! I'm always curious!