Comments on: Uncluttered cooking magazine

By: star

star — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:12:15 +0000

another really great magazine with zero ads is cooks country. and the photography is GORGEOUS as well. plus, it’s nice and thin, so a whole year’s subscription takes up little space. it is a little taller and wider than a standard magazine.
also, for any mac users, a great software that i use to keep my recipes organized, is macgourmet. i read so many cooking blogs that have lots of great recipes to try. and all you have to do is highlight the text and drag it into the software. sweeeet. i do periodically go through my cooking magazines and purge. i will sit and enter the recipes i want to keep into the software. it does take a bit of time, but at least i have them on hand without throwing away. well, except for cooks country. it’s too purty!

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:59:36 +0000

I must agree with Shelley… but I think we all know that I’m a bit biased when it comes to a recipe organization solution. I won’t bore you again.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:05:07 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see how subscribing to a magazine relates to UN-cluttering. With all the websites one can get and excellent basic cookbooks – one or two of which will more than suffice – I’m afraid this just looks like an advertisement for a magazine.

By: lucille

lucille — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:18:42 +0000

I have a system for recipes that I find. I bookmark the recipe first time I try it. If it turns out well and I start making it all the time I save it as a notepad file so I have it even if the website goes away. I have older online recipes in binders (from the days before cheaper laptops and wifi). As far as magazines if they are not geared towards types of food your interested in they won’t get much use. I had a gift subscription to a magazine that was heavily into church pot luck type fare and things made with canned soup. I don’t think I made anything out of 12 issues.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:06:48 +0000

@Fit Bottomed Girls

Yes, Cuisine at Home has the nutritional information on the same page as the recipe. Some of the recipes are definitely NOT healthy, but most are actually pretty good and have vegetable sides. I’ve been subscribing to this magazine for two years and I love it.

By: Rob in Madrid

Rob in Madrid — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:55:29 +0000

very very suprisingly they send the free sample issue any where in the world, very unusual. I ordered the freebie I’m always interested in new cooking ideas, love cooking but pretty much a novice.

By: JW

JW — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:34:08 +0000

STLMom, I use the internet mostly, too. I have about half a dozen vegetarian cookbooks, and when I find something new onine, I’ve stopped printing out recipes altogether, and instead, I save them as word documents or PDFs–depending on where I found them–and save them to my laptop. The latter comes into the kitchen (safely away from drips and pointy things) when I need it, and I have no extra clutter, no waste. Extra bonus: if you tinker like I do, you can easily add in notes, substitutions, or special notes right where you need them, and if a recipe isn’t good? Just delete the file.

By: Mark Wilden

Mark Wilden — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:30:09 +0000

Personally, I get magazines primarily for the ads. If all I need is a recipe or instruction, I’ve got a jillion cookbooks and a kajillion website bookmarks.

But especially when I’m first getting started in a new hobby or interest, I find that the ads give me a quick handle on what people are selling (and what people are buying).

The last thing I need is more recipes!

Different strokes…

///ark

By: supersocco

supersocco — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:41:37 +0000

Best online cookbook ever http://www.cooksillustrated.com/Default.asp

By: Michael G

Michael G — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:27:19 +0000

Wow. It looks like the this magazine is getting nothing but rave reviews. I’ll have to take a look. No ads is always a plus.

By: laure

laure — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:04:25 +0000

My grandmother loved this magazine and bought me a subscription for the last 10 years. She passed away 2 years ago and I still get the subscription (she renewed it that many times). It’s a nice reminder of her and our relationship. I know whenever I cook anything from it that we’re spending time together.

By: Stephanie Leary

Stephanie Leary — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:28:12 +0000

STL Mom, I do the page-protector thing, too. Did you know that myrecipes.com has all the stuff from Cooking Light and about a dozen other magazines? You can sign in with an AOL screen name (AIM works!) even if you don’t subscribe to any of them.

By: STL Mom

STL Mom — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:19:43 +0000

Hey, I’m trying to cut back on cooking magazines, and magazines in general – why tempt me with a new one?
I have an online subscription to Cooks Illustrated, and tons of recipes are available at Epicurious.com, Cookinglight.com, and Allrecipes.com. When I find a great recipe, I print it out, put it in a page protector, and put it in a binder that has only the recipes that worked for me.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:45:05 +0000

No ads is the same reason Cooks Illustrated is an awesome magazine. They’re like Consumer Reports for cooks!

By: Fit Bottomed Girls

Fit Bottomed Girls — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:58:52 +0000

I’ve never heard of this one, but I’m LOVING that it’s already binder-ready. Does it have healthy recipes? Do they include nuritional information? If they do those two things, then it may be L-O-V-E.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:18:34 +0000

My husband and I discovered this magazine recently and we love it. The recipes are easy to make, have great instructions and are amazing. We especially love their books – our favorite, not having children, is “Cuisine for Two”.