My favorite new site...

If you like to cook (I do!), if you have a large selection of cookbooks (never realized I had 65 or so cookbooks), like to eat (who doesn't?) then this website is A MUST!! Eatyourbooks.com is my new favorite website. Not only is the concept ingenious and ridiculously useful and easy-to-use, it has also helped me save time, money and frustration!

Eatyourbooks.com is a website that indexes the recipes and ingredients of  your own library of cookbooks. That's it  - simple and brilliant!




Do you own a lot of the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks (I do.) and can't find the recipe for her Chicken Stew with Biscuits because you keep calling it Chicken Pot Pie and you've already taken down from the shelf three of her cookbooks and now are growing frustrated because you can't remember the name of the recipe and can't find it? No more! Go to your eatyourbooks.com account, type in the word Chicken and Barefoot and up pops every chicken recipe Ina Garten has published on your shelf. No more frustrating searches for a recipe.

It has saved me money as well. Last week, in the fridge, I had a large bunch of basil and chicken. I was ready to head to the store to go buy other ingredients to make something with it. This would have involved a wasted trip to the grocery store picking up food items that I don't need and,  I am sure, spending well over $30 in the process. Instead, I went to my laptop, typed in chicken and basil and up popped about 15 recipes from my own library of recipes. I could choose from the one that did not necessitate a trip to the grocery store! The $25 annual fee was just paid for...and then some!

The other day I was in the grocery store and wanted to make the Three Day Slaw from my Screen Doors and Sweet Tea cookbook but couldn't remember the ingredients needed for the recipe. I pulled out my iPhone, logged into Eat Your Books and grabbed the ingredient list right there in the grocery store - BRILLIANT!

You can bookmark your favorite recipes, sort your books and recipes by location, type, and menus, make notes on your recipes that you have tried, chat with other cooks and just get inspired to dust off that cookbook collection that is sitting on your kitchen shelf. Best of all you can try it for FREE with five of your favorite cookbooks - try it! You'll be glad you did!