There will be days when you don’t know what to eat. Other days you might want to try something different. Or you just can’t cook but micrwave meals are starting to taste like melted plastic. If you’re the proud owner of an Apple device you have easy access to literally thousands of cooking options where you will find new dishes or inspiration to adapt one of your existing recipes. And if you are new to cooking there are even apps which provide you with helpful tips to give you guidance.
Even Jamie has an app!
Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals
Everyone’s favourite TV chef is now mixing his ingredients with an app containing 60 recipes you can whip up in around 20 minutes. Never one to over complicate cooking, Jamie has broken the recipes down into easy-to-follow steps in addition to demonstrative videos so you can’t go wrong.
Also featured is a shopping list which details the ingredients you need and which aisle you’ll find it on in the supermarket. For the novice, there are also 21 videos of Jamie giving useful tricks and tips like how to chop onions and sharpen a knife.
Martha’s Everyday Food – Fresh and Easy Recipes
Martha’s Everyday Food gives you easy access to dozens of magazines full of family-friendly recipes and helpful shopping tools. There are thousands of recipes you can choose from and you also have the flexibility to structure your cooking to suit your circumstances, whether it be a quick snack or a dinner party for 12.
Featured recipes are updated on a regualr basis and chosen by magazine editors so you can be assured of quality dishes; alternatively simply choose a dish from the extensive database.
Powerful search tools make it quick and easy to find the recipe you want, so if you have a particular ingredient in mind simply search and download your options. Recipes are organsed by main ingredient in categories such as seasonal, country, cooking style etc…and will also create an automatic shopping list.
If you like a particular dish save it in your memory and share it with family and friends.
Cookbook
Cookbook has thousands of recipes from all over the world. If you enjoy sampling cuisine from different cultures a simple search ion Cookbook will surely get your tastebuds salivating.
Cookbook uses Google as a search engine so you know it will track down delicious recipes from far and wide. Searches are conducted through categories, such as ingredient, country, course and time.
The Ultimate Recipe Search Tool
The Ultimate Recipe Search Tool is an ideal app for giving you ideas about new recipes or adapting existing ones. Search by ingredient and it will give you a combination you would never have thought of.
If you’ve only got three items in your fridge, the search tool allows you to enter all three ingredients and will give you an option of dishes you can make with them. And more often than not, they’re the best meals.
Mr Cook Recipes
Mr Cook Recipes also features cuisine from around the globe and with thousands of sumptuous dishes at the touch of a button, culinary ideas are at your fingertips.
SimpleFoodie Mobile
For easy meals, SimpleFoodie Mobile is the perfect answer. If you’re in a rush or just can’t be bothered to slog over a hot stove this app has 1000’s of recipes that are quick and easy to prepare. Featured videos give you step-by-step visual instructions and a shopping list allows you to tick off items as they go into your basket.
Buy the actual book on Amazon
The GI Recipe Book
If you’re worried you are troughing too many unhealthy foods listed on the Glycemic Index, the GI Recipe Book is full of healthy options to give you a satisfying alternative.
Food that tastes good is never good for your health, but this app has lots of recipes that taste good and are equally good for your health so you can eat without worrying what your plate-full is doing to your body.
With over 400 recipes all you need to do is enter a keyword ingredient and search for a recipe. Most dishes are of American origin and if you’re on a diet come complete with a nutritional breakdown so you can count your calories.
Vinous – Find the right wine/food combination!
If you fancy yourself as a bit of a food and wine conneisuer then Vinous is the app for you. Impress your dinner guests with this useful little gastronomy adviser and get guidance to help you choose the right wine to go with your intended dish – or if you prefer which dish to go with your bottle of wine. Either way you will wow your guests.
RecipePuppy
RecipePuppy is an app-extended version of the popular RecipePuppy.com website and returns the same results as if you were using the internet. Now it is available for your iPhone you don’t even have to leave the kitchen.
Search for recipes by ingredient and keyword, i.e the type of dish you want to prepare, and Recipe Puppy will give you a list of delicious options to choose from.
The Daily Recipe Guide
As the app title suggests the Daily Recipe Guide gives you a different recipe every day of the week with the touch of a button. The simple thing about this app is you can enter your food preferences and it will format recipes to suit your tastes. Thus if you are a chicken lover, you will have an endless list of chicken dishes to choose from everyday.
Search by category of ingredients and store your favourite dishes to your memory. The app is completely free and gives you the option to bookmark your favourite recipes and send them to your friends.
Indian Recipe Videos
Lover of curries could have only dreamed about an Indian Recipe App before now. But not only do you have a list of exciting and tasty dishes to choose from you are shown how to make them by Hetal and Anuja from the hit internet show ShowMeTheCurry.com.
Even with a recipe book curries are not the easiest beasts to make, but with the step-by-step video demonstrations showing you exactly what to do you stand a better chance of getting it right. And if you’re still not sure, wind it back and play it again.
The Seafood Insider’s Guide
Seafood fans don’t miss out on foodie apps either. And with the Seafood Insider you get all the latest news and tips in the seafood world. Bookmark your favourite recipes and send them to other fish fanatics.
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