"Paul McNoob" > wrote in message
...
>I bought TJOC, BHG and Betty Crocker cook books. Haven't touched Betty
> Crocker or TJOC. I know, blasphemy I'm sure. Only used BHG for a few
> recipes.
>
> I have been addicted to allrecipes.com
>
> I like the fact that other people chime in about the recipes, there
> are ratings, and people even amend the original recipe.
>
> Made a pumpkin bread last night based on allrecipes.com. Came out
> delish! Plan on making homemade sausages from there too.
>
> So it seems like I wasted $50 on books. I dunno... maybe not.. i'm
> still in the beginning stages... there's still a lot out there to
> make...
>
> Mind you - i don't rely on ratings to determine whether or not I will
> want to try the recipe, I just use allrecipes.com to find variations
> on the 1 recipe of whatever you wanted to make that would be in the
> books.
>
> Anyone here use allrecipes.com and are there any other good sites like
> it ?

Go to the library.... check out cook books there. The ones that you love,
buy on www.half.com You will save a ton of $$ that way.
I use allrecipes too, it's a good site.