Prairie Foodie

By Gods do I hate most* online recipe sites. I don’t want to have to read your life story when all I actually want to do, is make something happen in my kitchen. No, I do not care that you were bitten by a mouse in 4th grade and now have a super nose for cheese (according to who, btw?) and no, I still don’t care that you had your dead grandmother visit you in a dream and tell you about a missing ingredient in your family’s (In)”famous” green bean casserole. All I, as the reader want to be able to do .. is READ THE DAMN RECIPE. Also – No. There *shouldn’t* be the need to use a specific browser extension to display the recipe only, nor should anyone have to jump through 50 paragraphs of FLUFF to get to the goods. GIVE IT UP, ALREADY!

Evidently, I’ve been cooking. And while what I’ve been cooking up has been great (albeit, I don’t entirely follow recipes after I get bored of the author prattling on. Act of rebellion? lol ) it’s been challenging to sift through vague instructions, badly written directives and author’s notes that only make sense to ..well, the author.

As someone who has had a lifelong love affair with food and the creative process, I genuinely have to empathize with anyone trying to learn food-craft through the means of the internet. Of course, there are MANY great sites out there, and recipe developers who can absolutely break a recipe down at both a high level for the people interested, and for a more general overview for the new kitchen dwellers but, those are the exceptions, not the rule. It’s been giving me a little fuel to try to be the change I want to see in this online world of woe and wonder.

Which begs the question, dear reader : What rubs you wrong about the online recipe world? Is it the above? Something more? Something I haven’t called out? Very curious if anyone would like to share their opinion in the comments.


*Most – Not all. If you have any sites you LOVE, also feel free to share below in the comments. I would love to dive in!