How to Evaluate a Recipe

With the internet and search engines, it is very easy to find a recipe quickly by typing the key ingredients or name on your keypad. Almost instantly, you have a recipe or many recipes of the same thing. Which recipe do you pick and print? How do you know it will turn out and be good? Even as an experienced home chef, I find myself in the same quandary. Therefore, I added a section, "How to Evaluate a Recipe" to the Basics section of my cookbook, Scratch That: Seasonal Menus and Perfect Pairings. Read further for the quick checklist of how to evaluate a recipe that you find online, in a magazine, from a newspaper, from a TV show, from a friend, or even from a cookbook. Let me know if you have any further suggestions. [More]