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Having trouble coming up with what to cook for dinner tonight? Maybe SuperCook can help.
SuperCook is a search engine designed to find recipes based on the ingredients you have in your kitchen. On the site you enter what you have, and then SuperCook will tell you what you can make. Recipes are divided by Starters, Entrees, and Desserts and list any additional items you might need beside their name so you don’t waste time reading an entire recipe only to find you’re missing a key ingredient. As you enter items the site starts to list “Recommended items” that will open the doors to more dishes. if you’re headed out to the store anyway, SuperCook can also give you a recommended shopping list of items that will work well with what you have at home.
We tried the site out, and were a little let down. We put in two ingredients: cheddar cheese, and green beans. The site immediately returned 2000 recipes we could make with those two ingredients but most of them called for BLACK beans rather than green ones which isn’t exactly the same thing. Somehow we think nachos with green beans wouldn’t be all that tasty.
The site did come back with some good results for other searches, and if we had those black beans we were given tons of recipes that we might have otherwise not thought of. It’s definitely not perfect, but it could be a good place to start if you’re looking to be adventurous in the kitchen.
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