With the Holidays just around the corner (I’m looking at you thanksgiving! Check out our Black Friday guide too) and the pressure to plan and prepare large meals with family, friends, and significant others, those with an ineptitude for the culinary arts have right to dread the holiday season. Aside from the potential disasters of burning your kitchen down or creating a jaundice, frankenstinian meal which looks about as good as it tastes, even getting started finding proper recipes can be daunting, making a nifty cooking app like “Epicurious” a life saver.
Avoid cooking this for Thanksgiving:
First introduced to me by my amazing, foodie girlfriend, Epicurious functions like a personal chef’s assistant to your every whim, helping you pick recipes to your ability and health concerns while giving you advice on difficulty and preparation time. With constantly changing recipes and themes according to ingredients and the time of the year, I don’t even need to tell you the current focus is Thanksgiving heavy, with main menus consisting of 185 featured Turkey recipes to sides and even what beers to pair.
Even cooler is the search feature, which employs a series of filters such as “ingredient,” “meal/course,” “Cuisine,” “Dietary Consideration (low cal, low carb, low fat, no gluten, etc.),” “Dish type,” and “Season or Occasion,” making getting out of the box thinking for food (no more stir fries or instant ramen!) to help get some creative juices flowing.
While this may still seem intimidating, check it out! It’s a free app and at the very least it’s much more convenient than an expensive cook book, as each recipe carries with it images and user reviews/suggestions/improvements much like yelp. For me personally, the Epicurious app is truly a fantastic tool which has helped me expand out of sandwiches for every meal of the day, and I often find myself perusing the recipes for fun while waiting for my train (haha not to mention being able to cook always impresses the friends and girl).
