URL:

http://www.recipematcher.com

What is RecipeMatcher?

RecipeMatcher is a recipe website based off of the idea of revese recipe lookup.  What this mean is you first create a pantry of ingredients that you have in your home and then find recipes of things you can make without grocery shopping.  Even if you wanted to make something that you may not have all the ingredients, you’ll be quickly given the missing ingredients to add to your grocery list.

What you may not know about RecipeMatcher

RecipeMatcher gives you the option to add your own recipes to their library as well as favorite the ones you like the most.  This allows you to create a recipe book of your own that you can quickly go to to see what you can make from your current pantry. It also allows you to expand on the recipe library giving the community of RecipeMatcher users more options with their iPantry.

Here’s a quick video on RecipeMatcher:

URL:

http://www.webmd.com

What is WebMD?

WebMD, part of HLTH Corporation, is an American provider of health information services. It is primarily known for its public Internet site, which has information regarding health and health care, including a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, blogs of physicians with specific topics and a place to store personal medical information (read more at Wikipedia).

What you may not know about WebMD

WebMD has a great tool for managing what you eat and your fitness schedule.  Using their Food and Fitness planning you can keep track of everything you eat and how often you work out.  Using the planner you can search for foods and it will automatically look up the nutrional facts for you and add them to your daily diet.  In return you can also track your physical activity such as taking a jog in the morning.  They say the best way to help lose weight is to write down everything you eat, well now you can with WebMD’s Food and Fitness planner.

Here’s a quick video on WebMD:

URL:

http://www.epicurious.com

What is Epicurious?

Epicurious is a website dedicated to recipes, cooking, drinking, entertaining, and restaurants. It is owned by CondeNet, the online division of Conde Nast Publications.The site also includes recipes from Bon Appétit magazine and Gourmet magazine. The site accepts recipe contributions from readers. Epicurious used to have a TV series on the Discovery Channel, but it no longer airs. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Epicurious

Epicurious, apart from its great collection of recipes, has a great collection of videos that teach you how to cook.  It greats to watch the Food Network and all, but what you never really get to learn is the essential basic cooking techniques all of these fancy chefs take for granted.  Now with Epicurious you can learn hundreds of these same techniques they use on their shows, in your kitchen.

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http://www.digitalcookbook.tv

What is Digital Cookbook?

Digital Cookbook is a recipe website that has videos showing how to make the recipe, not just listing the incredients and directions.  They have a wide variety of recipes in different categories.  All of the recipes are featured on Comcast’s On Demand system as well.

What you may not know about Digital Cookbook

With Digital Cookbook you can create a recipe box, saving all of your favorite recipes, so in the future when you want to remember how to make calamari, don’t just look up the recipe and ingredients, watch how it is made.

Here’s a quick video about adding recipes to your recipe box:

URL:

http://www.extratasty.com

What is Extra Tasty?

Extra Tasty is a cool tool to learn how to make drinks, with liqour that is.  It is an ever growing library of drink recipes available at your fingertips.  Search for a drink name and learn how to make it.  Extra Tasty is built by it’s community, in which user submitted drinks make up the bulk of their drink recipe library.  You can also get drink recipes by remotely with the cell phone texting service.

What you may not know about Extra Tasty

Extra Tasty has a tool called My Bar.  What this does is ask you to provide all of the liqours, beverages and garnishes you have available to you.  So list all your liqours, sodas and juices into Extra Tasty’s My Bar and it will output all of the drink recipes you can make, based off of what you have.  Learn new drink combinations you didn’t know possible with the stuff you already have at your house.
Here’s a video on how to use Extra Tasty’s My Bar:

URL:

http://tv.winelibrary.com

What is Wine Library TV?

Winelibrary TV (WLTV) (2006-present) is a video podcast hosted by Gary Vaynerchuk, featuring wine reviews and advice on wine appreciation. Episodes consists of wine tastings along with other wine related topics. The show debuted on February 21, 2006, and is produced on a daily basis, on weekdays, and is taped in the Wine Library store in Springfield, NJ. Episodes taped Monday through Thursday take place on a desk in Vaynerchuk’s office, normally tasting three or four wines, and the Friday episode takes place on Vaynerchuk’s office couch, tasting usually only one wine and answering questions submitted via his Facebook application Ask Gary. The show may be watched by 90,000 viewers. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know you can do with Wine Library TV

You can get instant reviews and user reviews about each wine tasted in the episodes.  Since March 2007, Wine Library TV has been tagging their videos with the exact time that Gary starts to talk about a particular wine.  Listed underneath each video is a section called “Wines tasted in this episode“, by clicking Play to the right of the wine, it will quickly jump right to Gary’s review of that wine.  Want to see more reviews about that particular wine?  Click review at Cork’d and you’ll get reviews from other wine aficionado’s across the internet.

Here’s a quick video for you: