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Anyone tried Google's new recipe search?

13 years ago

I heard something on TV yesterday about Google launching a recipe search. I was looking for something to do for dinner that would use up stuff in my fridge and freezer so I tried it. I often google a list of ingredients, but even when I add the word 'recipe', it brings up non-recipe results, so I like that it's specific.

I searched shrimp and spinach. Then feta popped up on the ingredient list and I remembered I had an almost-expired package of that, too. So I checked 'yes' on the feta. Then I found the bottom end of a jar of preserved lemons. I still haven't decided what to make...

Here is a link that might be useful: google recipe view

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dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
13 years ago
I have used it before, but I used it in a strange way.

I try out differtent interesting ingredients and recipes. I believe you can get more authentic by using native recipes. So I use Google Translate to translate the English name of an ingredient to the native language, and many recipes will come up. Then I use Google Translate and translate the recipes into English.

It really doesn't take that long to do.

For instance, for French onion soup, I get this recipe:

INGREDIENTS
Pour 4 personne(s)

1 kg d'oignons
50 gr de beurre
10 cl de vin blanc sec ou de biÃ¯Â¿Â½re
1 litre de bouillon de volaille ou de boeuf ou 1 bouillon cube
1 branchette de thym
1 feuille de laurier
Sel
Poivre du moulin
Piment d'Espelette (facultatif)

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You can try Greek, Lithuanian, Albanian, Chinese, Japanese ----
Kind of interesting

dcarch
wizardnm
13 years ago
I read about it too. So I gave it a try and it's pretty cool. It does weed out the garbage. :-)

When you click in the margin to the right of the results it even brings up more info but the printing is pretty small.

Nancy
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readinglady
13 years ago
Speaking of recipe searches, have you tried this one? Enter a search and watch how the results appear. Very cool.

Carol

Here is a link that might be useful: Food I Love You Search Site
jessicavanderhoff
13 years ago
Cool!! Thanks, Katie and dcarch!
jazmynsmom
13 years ago
I use and love the foodily.com search engine that Carol mentioned. The format is especially attractive and user friendly.
User
13 years ago
I prefer Google's regular search over the new Google Recipe.

The new Google Recipe search brings up recipes from all the big commercial sites, like Food Network and About.com, Epicurious, Martha Stewart, etc...

A regular google search brings up recipes from a wider variety of websites, like our Cooking forum, blog sites, etc...

When I'm looking for something new I tend to search Tastespotting and Foodgawker.

Ann
KatieC
Original Author
13 years ago
Ann, I think I agree. After a couple of searches I realized I wasn't getting any recipes from blogs. It is fun to filter out ingredients though.

Foodily.com is cool, too, but slow on my dialup (as are Tastespotting and Foodgawker...anything with pictures, darnit). And it didn't bring up more specific results when I grouped search terms using quotation marks.

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