One of the things I love about the internet is the ease with which we can share recipes and cooking information.

I have shelves full of cookbooks which I now rarely use at all, relying instead on other people’s online recipe collections. For example, when searching for beef recipes, I can find thousands of them on one site alone. Within minutes, I can download and print hundreds of beef and steak recipes, and within a few minutes more I can be in the kitchen with a printed recipe cooking up a delightful meal!

It gets even more useful when searching for recipes for special dietary needs. I have a friend who is diabetic, and needs to watch the carb content of any recipe. A quick search for low carb recipes, and the problem is solved.

The other advantage is that all these recipes are donwloaded and printed off on standard *disposable* paper, Unlike an expensive cookery book, it is no problem if it gets greasy food spilled on it, I just print it out again I am good to go!

Of course, recipes alone are only part of the solution. If I am looking for cooking times, grams to ounces conversions and even nutritional information - it is, again, all at my fingertips. In fact, I can also find cookery forums where I can chat with other keen amateur chefs and compare notes on which recipes we have tried, which have worked well and which needed some modifications etc

Right, back to the kitchen for me - I have 50,000 recipes to try out!