My favorite cooking websites

One of my friends asked me for the links to my favorite cooking websites. A lot of my inspiration for my own recipes comes from reading what other people are cooking, what they are putting in their recipes and eventually what I do is pull all of the combined ideas together into my own recipes. Here are my top 10 favorites:

1) http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/ I go here daily! I love her sense of humor, her stories and her recipes

2) http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/ Created by the pioneer woman, this site has user submitted recipes that are to good to be true - look them up if you don't believe me!

3) http://allrecipes.com/ I go to this website when I am pantry cooking (meaning I don't have all the ingredients I need to make what I usually make and need to get creative, or go to the store - I'd rather get creative). The reason the website is helpful for pantry cooking is because you can search by ingredients - if you are out of eggs, but need to make a cake, you can search for recipes to accommidate what you are looking for.

4)http://www.nutritiondata.com/ I haven't used this site as much but it has recipes PLUS information on what you are eating - giving you nutrition labels for single ingredients - making your cooking educational. You can also store your recipes here.

5) http://closetcooking.blogspot.com/ This is some random guy in a tiny kitchen who cooks his little heart out with adventure....er, well - I mean with unique ideas and tasty ingredients. If you are looking to explore new ingredients or new ways of combining them, check this guy out!

6)http://www.cheekykitchen.com/ if you want a good dessert with a mouth watering picture of it, you must come here. I love looking at food pictures and these are AMAZING!

7) http://www.laraferroni.com/category/cookandeat/ this one has puurrrty pictures on it and makes my mouth water. I love to torture myself by staring at purty pictures all day and having my stomach grumbling until I can go make one of the recipes on here. :)

8) http://www.supercook.com/ Extremely helpful for pantry cooking again - you simply enter in the ingredients you are looking to use or get rid of and it will search lots of different websites to find you a recipe suited to what you are looking for - pure genious!

9) http://rouxbe.com/ gives you cooking lessons, you need a paid membership to access everything, but they offer many things for free as well. Its worth looking at!

10) http://www.epicurious.com/ People rave about this website, but my favorite will always be the Pioneer Woman!

Spanish Grilled Corn and Chicken

Ingredients:

3 tsp. Olive Oil
2 cloves Garlic, minced
1/4 cup onion, diced
1 chicken breast, cubed
1/2 bag frozen corn (or better yet, 1 or 2 grilled corn on the cobs, with corn sliced off)
1 or 2 can tomatoes, strained
1/4 tsp chili powder
1 tsp taco seasoning
Cilantro (if you like it)
Cooked rice
Tortillas

Heat olive oil in a frying pan. Add chopped garlic. Once the garlic and oil have had time to magically become one, add the onion, letting it join in on the fun. Next, add the chicken, and once it's almost cooked through add corn (preferrably it would be grilled in my mind, but since I don't have a grill or corn on the cob, this is my sad way of "grilling" the corn, ha ha - by heating it up with the chicken). Once cooked, add one can strained tomatoes. Add spices. Remove from heat. (I like to add the tomatoes without straining them, then boiling the mix till it's to a perfect unrunny thickness).

To serve, heat up tortillas in a pan with butter till they are nice and warm, put chicken mix on top with rice and freshly chopped cilantro.

Enjoy!

For dessert, try putting honey onto one of your warm and buttery tortillas, it's like magic in your mouth.