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Very cool. Some ideas I would love to see: 1) Exclude recipe that include particular ingredient(s). (dietary restrictions) 2) Tooltips in the column headings

Very cool. Some ideas I would love to see: 1) Exclude recipe that include particular ingredient(s). (dietary restrictions) 2) Tooltips in the column headings that explain the various ratings and indexes you are using

qrv3w 11y ago
Those are great ideas! Thanks.
- justifier 11y ago
  great site, allow me to +1 the parent's suggestions and i'll add one my self, perhaps cross reference these ingredients with nutrition data so i can do something like: i need to eat more iron and calcium
  - qrv3w 11y ago
    Yes! I like that idea, and I have nutrition information...just not integrated into the site yet.
ergothus 11y ago
#1 would be huge for me. I'm vegetarian, and hate green peppers, which means some 80% (made up stat) of all vegetarian recipes are no go for me. My wife, in turn, is vegetarian and a very picky eater (she has "texture" issues with food). These sorts of features would be very useful for me to cook for her. General appeal to the universe: If feeding a group, particularly vegetarians, DON'T go for a "use everything" strategy. That's like ordering Supreme pizzas for a group - if everyone dislikes one ingredient (but different for each), all you've done is made everyone unhappy.
- sithadmin 11y ago
  > If feeding a group, particularly vegetarians, DON'T go for a "use everything" strategy. Mind fleshing out that idea a bit more? I don't entirely understand what you're getting at, given that most people don't try to include as many ingredients in a dish as possible just for the sake thereof.
  - ergothus 11y ago
    > given that most people don't try to include as many ingredients in a dish as possible just for the sake thereof You would think so, but my experience says differently when it comes to being a vegetarian. Take an random "average" (i.e. off the top of my head) US meal: some sort of noodles with a beef-based sauce, green beans, and biscuits. But the green beans have ham in them, and the biscuits are made with lard (I spent some time in the South, where ham is a seasoning and not a meat, it shows). You'd think "well, gee, if we just make the green beans w/o ham, and the biscuits without lard, we can serve portobello mushrooms or a second vegetable or a vegetarian sauce on the noodles and the vegetarians will be happy!". And for me, at least, you'd be right, and I suspect in general. But instead, what happens is that they make a second, distinct meal, into which they throw as many vegetarian things as they can find. Say, green peppers stuffed with quinoa, tomatoes, and artichoke bits. Or a kale salad with cooked eggplant and red peppers. etc. When they order pizza, they get pepperoni for the meat eaters, but they get the olive/green pepper/onion/spinach/tomato chunks/mushroom for the vegetarians. Why not just cheese? The cheese pizza almost always runs out at gatherings I've been at that were lucky enough to have it as an option. (Note: I'm not addressing the vegans here, because I'm not a vegan so I have no real experience, and it's much harder to do "like the meat eater version, but vegan") Okay, "as many vegetarian things as they can find" is hyperbole. But I'm faced with, instead of getting the same thing the meat eaters get, minus meat, is a conglomeration of things, at least one of which I'm likely not to like. I think it's because people think simple vegetable options are "boring", and they need to spice it up. (and rather than use actual spices to do so, they try for variety in the same dish) That's my theory, anyway. Hope that addressed your question...I sort of rant-vented a bit. I'll also add that I don't generally expect people to accommodate my desires, I just find it sad when they try and mess it up.
    - always_good 11y ago
      Yikes. If it's so hard for hosts to please you despite their efforts, then maybe you should start bringing your own dish to the dinner.
      - ergothus 11y ago

qrv3w 11y ago

Those are great ideas! Thanks.

justifier 11y ago
great site, allow me to +1 the parent's suggestions and i'll add one my self, perhaps cross reference these ingredients with nutrition data so i can do something like: i need to eat more iron and calcium
- qrv3w 11y ago
  Yes! I like that idea, and I have nutrition information...just not integrated into the site yet.

ergothus 11y ago

#1 would be huge for me. I'm vegetarian, and hate green peppers, which means some 80% (made up stat) of all vegetarian recipes are no go for me. My wife, in turn, is vegetarian and a very picky eater (she has "texture" issues with food). These sorts of features would be very useful for me to cook for her. General appeal to the universe: If feeding a group, particularly vegetarians, DON'T go for a "use everything" strategy. That's like ordering Supreme pizzas for a group - if everyone dislikes one ingredient (but different for each), all you've done is made everyone unhappy.

sithadmin 11y ago
> If feeding a group, particularly vegetarians, DON'T go for a "use everything" strategy. Mind fleshing out that idea a bit more? I don't entirely understand what you're getting at, given that most people don't try to include as many ingredients in a dish as possible just for the sake thereof.
- ergothus 11y ago
  > given that most people don't try to include as many ingredients in a dish as possible just for the sake thereof You would think so, but my experience says differently when it comes to being a vegetarian. Take an random "average" (i.e. off the top of my head) US meal: some sort of noodles with a beef-based sauce, green beans, and biscuits. But the green beans have ham in them, and the biscuits are made with lard (I spent some time in the South, where ham is a seasoning and not a meat, it shows). You'd think "well, gee, if we just make the green beans w/o ham, and the biscuits without lard, we can serve portobello mushrooms or a second vegetable or a vegetarian sauce on the noodles and the vegetarians will be happy!". And for me, at least, you'd be right, and I suspect in general. But instead, what happens is that they make a second, distinct meal, into which they throw as many vegetarian things as they can find. Say, green peppers stuffed with quinoa, tomatoes, and artichoke bits. Or a kale salad with cooked eggplant and red peppers. etc. When they order pizza, they get pepperoni for the meat eaters, but they get the olive/green pepper/onion/spinach/tomato chunks/mushroom for the vegetarians. Why not just cheese? The cheese pizza almost always runs out at gatherings I've been at that were lucky enough to have it as an option. (Note: I'm not addressing the vegans here, because I'm not a vegan so I have no real experience, and it's much harder to do "like the meat eater version, but vegan") Okay, "as many vegetarian things as they can find" is hyperbole. But I'm faced with, instead of getting the same thing the meat eaters get, minus meat, is a conglomeration of things, at least one of which I'm likely not to like. I think it's because people think simple vegetable options are "boring", and they need to spice it up. (and rather than use actual spices to do so, they try for variety in the same dish) That's my theory, anyway. Hope that addressed your question...I sort of rant-vented a bit. I'll also add that I don't generally expect people to accommodate my desires, I just find it sad when they try and mess it up.
  - always_good 11y ago
    Yikes. If it's so hard for hosts to please you despite their efforts, then maybe you should start bringing your own dish to the dinner.
    - ergothus 11y ago