New Feature: Ingredients Dictionary
You may have been wondering what I did this weekend (or not)... Well, I've built a new section to the website to help the international audience (and those of us who can't tell the difference between a winter squash and a meat tenderizer [although winter squashes work pretty well as a meat mallet...]) to figure out what ingredient is what. Say hello to the Ingredients Dictionary.
I started with the priority of posting pictures of each ingredient. Later, I'll fill in the details of each ingredient with information on how to store and select them at the markets. The photos were all taken at Cosentino's Market in Santa Clara, CA where the staff was exceedingly nice and the produce fresh and pretty. I spent a couple hours there rearranging produce, chatting with the grocers, and snapping away. It's probably going to take many, many trips to get pictures of most of the common ingredients. Well, I better go take some more pictures...
Go to the Ingredients Dictionary
18 Comments:
Good to see you back in the kichen!
Good to see you back in the kitchen!
I commend you for taking on this project! I'll bet everyone will get a lot of use out of it!
Just a warning.
don't ask people to click on your ads. Google will ban you and freeze your account.
Thank you, this ingredients dictionary is very nifty! Often, in this part of the world, one needs to find substitutes.
Wow! I have had alot of stuffed peppers in my life, but the avacado pork stuffed peppers are amazing! Thanks for the recipe, and keep it up! With recipes like these you could make your own cook book.
Thanks!
Hm.. I think that preloading all images when going to this site is a bad idea - it will quickly drain your available upload.
re: preloading images
Thanks! You're absolutely right. I didn't realize that the browsers would still fetch the images when the visibility is set to invisible. I will change the code tonight - hopefully.
Wow! Here in Mexico we call "Limón" (Lemon) your Limes... I'm gonna post about it on my blog!
That's too cool!
Hey there... I really love the site. But, being a newbie, I don't really understand how to read/decipher the recipes. Or maybe that's just because I'm not an engineer... lol.
So, could Michael or someone else explain it to me? thanks... J.
I like the photos... your aperture setting gives it a nice artsy feel. What kind of camera are you using?
The recipies are very simple to read. You're probably making it to complex. The ingredients are listed on the left side. To their right are sets of brackets. Notice how ingredients are bracketed in. The action listed in the bracket are what you do to the ingredients. Move left. Each step will bracket in more ingredients. These are the stages at which things are added.
Michael: I tried to look at your ingredient list... but I'm using Firefox and it doesn't appear to work with the browser. :\ Just thought you might wanna know. I may just need to reopen the browser. But I'd check on this if I were you.
re: Dictionary not working in Firefox
Hmmmm, I made a few code changes a few days ago and it worked in Firefox 0.93 and IE. I checked today with the preview release 1.0 of Firefox and it's not working. I'll see if I can code around it.
Those are limes are Key Limes. As long as your catagorising eggplants and potatos you should do it with limes.
Also doesn't work in Konqueror 3.3 (Linux); nothing happens when I click the ingredient name. Yes, it's set to allow javascript.
re: Konqueror
How about now? It's working in IE and Firefox 1.0 right now.
Does Konqueror support DOM?
I posted a non-Javascript version of the Dictionary page for those who don't see a working version of the Dictionary page. One of the two should work.
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