Links: online cookbooks, recipe analysis software

[Shadow]

Here are links to discussions about some of our favorite cookbooks, software that helps you analyze recipes and print cookbooks, websites helpful to cooks, and online low carb cookbooks and recipe collections. Enjoy!

Favorite Cookbooks
Here's a link to a thread in 'The Protein Power Kitchen' which discusses some of our favorite cookbooks:
http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/showthread.php?t=660&highlight=cookbooks

PLEASE NOTE:

Many of these recipe collections and websites make recipes available for personal use only, and where that info is known up front, we've included it in the description of the site.
In other words, you may not upload recipes to the Protein Power forum from sites that only allow downloads for personal use without express written consent of the owner of the recipe. You may post a link to the original electronic version of the recipe, and describe it, but you may not list the ingredients or quote the directions.
If you create a new recipe inspired by one you found on the 'net, credit your inspiration, substantially change the ingredients and convert the directions to your own words -- well, then, post away! ;)
Posters of recipes uploaded to these forums which may be in violation of copyright protections will be asked to edit their posts to remove the recipe. If those posters can't or don't edit the post violating copyright of another site within 24 hours, it will be removed by the site moderators.[/B]


Software for cookbooks/recipe analysis
MasterCook v9.0 software, from ValuSoft ($19.99/CD). Search on MasterCook Deluxe to find local or online places to purchase.

Online cooking sites, with recipes and nutrient analysis
The Living Cookbook website (price for use)
http://www.livingcookbook.com/?source=overture&OVRAW=mastercook&OVKEY=mastercook&OVMTC=standard

Recipe*zaar online cooking community, featuring enormous recipe database (including a low carb section) and online recipe analysis and cookbook storage. Recipes on the site are considered copyrighted by Recipe*zaar, but they acknowledge that you can't copy-protect a list of ingredients or obvious directions. You may post the recipes from this site here, as long as you credit the source and put the directions in your own words!
http://www.recipezaar.com/

Free online recipes
alt.support.diet.low-carb recipe index downloadable recipes, copyrighted by the asdlc usergroup.
Please only share these original recipes by linking to them.
http://www.camacdonald.com/lc/LowCarbohydrateCooking-Recipes.htm

Blaine's Low Carb Kitchen, website for the FitTV cooking show. No formal copyright notice--but unless you change the recipe significantly, please only share the original recipes by linking to them..
http://fittv.discovery.com/fansites/blaine/blaine.html

Discovery Health's Recipe Search, used for "Honey, we're killing the kids" among other shows.
Please only share the original recipes by linking to them..
http://discoveryhealth.foodfit.com/dh_recipe_search.asp (and powered by www.foodfit.com "Recipe Search")

FoodTV's website--type "low carb" without quotes into the Search box within Recipes at the top of the page. Many of these recipes are copyrighted by the original chef, and that copyright notice and credit should be listed on the recipe. However, the site does permit limited sharing of recipes as long as you give credit where it's due.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/

Karen Barnaby's Low Carb Recipes page
Karen is a professional chef and author of The Low Carb Gourmet, who generously teaches low carb cooking classes in Vancouver BC and makes many of her copyrighted recipes available on the web. Unless you change one of Karen's recipes substantially, please link it rather than posting it. Recipes posted with notes from Karen's cooking classes may be shared as long as appropriately credited.
http://www.lowcarb.ca/karen.html

Lauri's Low Carb Recipes online cookbook with user ratings of the recipes, at www.allrecipes.com. This link has changed to a 'free preview' of Lauri's downloadable cookbook. Please only share the original recipes by linking them.
http://lowcarb.allrecipes.com/directory/3603.asp

Linda's Low Carb Recipes and Menus website with free low carb recipes which may be freely uploaded to these forums, as long as they are properly credited.
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/

Low Carb & Lovin' It, website for George Stella's TV show on FoodTV. Stella's recipes are copyrighted;
please only share the original recipes by linking them.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ll

Low Carb CookwoRx, the Drs. Eades' PBS cooking show website, with recipes.
Please only share the original recipes by linking to them.
http://www.lowcarbcookworx.com/

MrBreakfast website, with over 100 omelette recipes, more than a dozen low carb pancake recipes, recipes for souffles and smoothies and dozens of muffins, etc. Many of the recipes haven't been de-carbed yet, but most of the egg recipes are completely on plan, and the ones that ARE low-carb are marked low carb, low flour, gluten free, etc. This site has lots of ideas for the most important meal of the day...:
http://www.mrbreakfast.com/super.asp

Yahoudi's recipe collection. Jill saved these recipes from her internet explorings and from the PPbbs at eatprotein.com. They are stored here on her website, and may be freely shared.
http://wedcraft.com/recipes/

[Gaelen]

When I first joined the old PP boards in Feb. 2002, Diana's cookbook, which was part of the PPPics site, was one of the first things that I downloaded. Unfortunately, the link to the original file no longer works, but I did save my zipped file. Unfortunately, since I can't upload a zipped file, I will have to break the file into attachments. Meanwhile, here's the link to the file from the yahoo! group files. You'll need WinZip or another unzipping utility to open the file after downloading it. As far as I know, these recipes are public-for-sharing, and this download doesn't violate any copyrights currently in effect. If anyone knows Diana and can confirm differently, please contact me ASAP. Until then, this cookbook is here as it was on the original PP site, for free and general use, with much thanks to Diana for compiling the recipes. You will need to be a member of the yahoo! group PPBBS to download this file; if you haven't joined that group (our backup address book), feel free to join it at this time. It's closed to new posts, but new members will still be accepted for the address book functions.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ppbbs/files/RECIPES/Cookbooks%2C%20Recipe%20Collections/

[cmcole]

http://www.lowcarb.ca/karen.html

She has a great Low Carb Gourmet book, too. I like it because it seems like "real" food to my family (who do not necessarily follow my method of eating). Recipes we can share.

[Gaelen]

cmcole, I love Karen's cookbook and the results of her recipes. She was a member of the old eatprotein board, and posts regularly on lowcarber.org, where she has her own forum. I think this thread would reach more people in The Protein Power Kitchen forum, with the other links to public recipe sites, so I'm going to move it there. Thanks so much for the link!

[backpacker]

I'm a huge fan of the Low Carb Gourmet book! I cook out of it often.

I'd highly recommend the garam masala spinach recipe on the page above. It's fantastic!

[Gaelen]

Oh, yes...and any of the fish recipes, and all of Karen's sauces. I've also made the cream cheese noodles, and they're great!

[cmcole]

http://www.lowcarbeating.com/recipe_category.php

[cmcole]

http://www.carb-lite.au.com/ (http://www.carb-lite.au.com/)

http://www.carb-lite.au.com/71BAKERY/71bakerymenu.html

http://www.carb-lite.au.com/71DESSERTS/71dessertsmenu.html

http://www.carb-lite.au.com/71ethworld.html

http://www.carb-lite.au.com/fdfoodindex.html

[kevinpa]

At a loss for new recipe ideas? Epicurious is a site run by the same people who publish Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines. They have about 500 recipe that they list as Low Carb. Although they do not provide the nutritional counts for there recipes I have run some through my cook'n program and found them to be generally low in carbs.

At worst it looks like a great site for Ideas.

Here is the link for their Low Carb (http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/find/browse/results?type=browse&att=159) section.

[Gaelen]

Kevin, www.epicurious.com is one of my favorite sites (next to www.tvfoodnetwork.com). It's also the provider of 'the recipe of the day' for people who use yahoo!...and it's full of not only recipe ideas, but technique questions and references.

[cmcole]

I, too, like that site. I have used it as a jumping point for recipes.

I also like the Chef to Chef site. They even send weekly e-mailed recipes (not all LC, but interesting), if you subscribe.

http://recipes.chef2chef.net/

[LisaS]

and it is in English & Danish !
I stumbled across it - found it kinda cute and the recipes are very simple but look tasty -
http://homeofourfathers.com/lisbeth/kogebog.htm

Lisa

[Missy]

How cute! I want to try her onion recipe! Looks good and cheesy! :D

[Gaelen]

Today I rediscovered a few old friends...PBS TV show chefs who also have websites. Julia Child's site has a few free recipes, but even better it features videos of techniques, excerpts from several of the series' in which Child starred ('Cooking with Master Chefs,' 'In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs,' 'Baking with Julia,' and others that feature recipes within them, and is just a great online reference:
http://www.pbs.org/juliachild/free.html

One site I'd never seen before, although I really like his books, is Rick Bayless' Mexican recipes site:
http://www.fronterakitchens.com/cooking/recipes/

They are not de-carbed in any way, although many traditional Mexican main dish recipes are NOT high carb, and the sides of tortillas and beans can be eliminated. But they are ALL authentic Mexican recipes, and I'm especially intrigued by the seafood variations. I made Bayless's Campeche Style Baked Fish tonight for dinner, with a few variations to fit in the ingredients I had on hand, and it was terrific. Enjoy!

[cmcole]

Low Carb Transformation BB

(recipe section (http://www.lowcarbtransformation.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=20))

[Gaelen]

Noticed this on the Active Low Carber boards...it's a new 'recipe search' tool from Google, called Cooking with Google (http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/tools/cookin-with-google/). You put in the main ingredient(s) you want in the recipe (separate multiple ingredients with a comma or spaces) and then choose from seven categories (General, Vegan/Vegetarian, World Wide Cuisine, Atkins Diet, For Diabetics, Seafood, Crockpot REcipes) and click the 'Grab a Recipe' button. It returns a list of recipes from site archives (the 'Low Carb Friends' site's recipes came up in most of my Atkins Diet searches, for instance...)

It's a lot of fun to play with, and there were some great ideas. I plugged in 'tilapia, lemons, basil' and got Thai recipes when I searched World Wide Cuisines, several grilled and baked tilapia recipes when I searched seafood and Atkins, and a few Cajun smother ones when I searched 'General.'

Enjoy!

[gcartwr]

I am looking everywhere for dry curd cottage cheese to buy for our selective carb diet. Anyone who can tell me a website??
Thanks,
Marcia

[Gaelen]

Gcartwr, if what you're looking for is Friendship Farmer's Cheese or Dry Curd Cottage cheese, as in this link: http://www.friendshipdairies.com/products/farmerhoop.shtml

then you should be able to find it at one of these retail stores:
http://www.friendshipdairies.com/Retailers/index.shtml

I know in the northeast, it's available at Wegmans and Price Chopper supermarkets, in the dairy aisle.

This is older info from the SCD site, but some of it may still be current:
http://www.scdiet.org/7archives/scd010_2.html

Hope this helps, and welcome in.

[cmcole]

I used to get dry curd cottage cheese and Farmer's cheese where we lived before.

I can get neither here, and I even checked with the dairy company in the city

Another Site for LC Recipes

Egg Dishes (http://www.carb-lite.au.com/71EGGS/71eggsmenu.html)

[LindaSue]

I see that you've got the old link to my site, Linda's Low Carb Menus & Recipes, in your list of links. Here's the new URL:

http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/

[Gaelen]

LindaSue, thank you very much--I'll update the link to your page.

[zip11777]

Found a great store near my workplace, in Long Island (Holtsville, NY) called, simply enough, 'The Diet Shop'...link:

http://www.thedietshop.biz/index.cfm

Amongst other products, I really enjoy the Big Train pancake batter and Choc Chip cokkies.