This is the article that got me thinking. I just thought it was a lovely presentation. I am really trying to take full advantage of fresh produce while I can . . .

Easiest Week Ever Summer Meals

Hey - whatever floats your boat 😀

I will say that I would not, based on how much I've come to hate trying to search recipes on their site. Even when I'm looking for a recipe I know is theirs, the search results were so impossible to sift through, I gave up looking there quite some time ago.

I think the best way to find them is through an outside search engine. I'm pretty good at reading recipes and knowing if they’ll be good. That's important with a compiling site, like Epicurious. You're so careful with your pennies, however, that I wouldn't recommend paying for a site unless you feel passionately that it's your thing, The New York Times recipe site is curated, and I think they test the recipes they publish, as well. There you'd get value for money, though I still think you could spend the fee on ingredients, and find as good elsewhere for free, but without the services of the editors. In general, I hate paywalls and subscriptions to digital. I'm fine with ads, and even remove annoying ad fees (though I don't pay them), but while I appreciate the site owners needing to make a buck, I hate the intrusion on the free flow of information.

Someone gave me a copy of the NYT cookbook, but I rarely use it, except as a comparison with other recipes.

I've never used recipes from Epicurious, and I think there are other ways to get plenty of good recipes. I prefer to get recipes from Youtube, and then I can also watch them being made, which helps me remember them.

I use the ATK cookbook fairly often for recipes, and if you do not have that book, I would recommend buying that instead of subscribing to Epicurious - just my preference.

In general, I prefer to use books instead of web recipes.

Isn't Epicurious a compilation of Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazine recipes? I know it used to be.

It used to be, plus, I think, other Conde Nast. It's been rejiggered and relaunched and refocused a number of times.

I have found many times when I want to try a NY Times recipe that is behind their pay wall, I just Google NYT + the name of the recipe, and nearly always a couple or more free blogs will come up that have the recipe. Bet the same thing would happen in Googling for an Epicurious recipe. I am very frugal and will not pay for subscriptions to recipe sites nor sites to store my recipes.

Well, I was just thinking about something actually to inspire my cooking that would come into my Inbox. NYT is too expensive. I am having a hard time since I've been on a diet. Thinking of good recipes and easy but tasty ways to use summer harvest stuff. I've seen some farm market or community garden cookbooks but I don't really have one and I don't have more room for any cookbooks . . .

A lot of these aren't diet worthy, but could inspire a direction:

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/fall-harvest-recipes/

These are making me hungry! Scroll past the preserving (which you might also like) to see dishes to make,

https://pinkfortitude.com/summer-harvest-recipes/

I get weekly recipe collections from The Spruce Cooks.I like that site and it’s free.

I get recipes from Taste of Home delivered to my email, as well as The Spruce.

The food email newsletters I get and often get inspired by are Better Homes and Gardens and Martha Stewart - they're free too.

I used to get the Better Homes and gardens one, not sure why it stopped, I didn't unsubscribe. Went away when I got my new laptop.

Mine shows up in my junk folder - have you checked yours?

FWIW, I tend to save recipes onto my computer. I use the 'save as .pdf' option in my print menu, or copy/paste into a text file, depending on which works better.

And I do miss the old Epicurious site - the top results actually were relevant to your search, not a bunch of seemingly random things that weren't.

So I just checked the site and it looks like you can still access a limited number of recipes without a paywall - like some magazines and newspapers.

I used to like Epicurious but like others here not anymore. I do like the NYT because i think the recipes and comments are quite interesting. I don’t see the editorial content by Sam Sifton that I used to really enjoy. i could get by on free sites including several of the ones listed above + Smitten Kitchen, Food 52, Dorrie Greenspan.