Websites for recipes, food, & conversion tables

 

Favorite Recipes (-just some of them)

        Oriental Pasta Salad

        Swiss Onion Pie

        Apple Pork Chops with Sauerkraut

        Taco Soup

        Sugar Drop Cookies

        Bates Bar B Q

        Chewy Oatmeal Drop Cookies

        Baked Potato Soup

        Christmas Cake

 

John's Favorite Recipes

        Amish Friendship Bread   

        Magic Cookie Bars

        Oatmeal Drop Cookies

        Praline Cookies

        Rhubarb Custard Pie   

        Syl's BBQ Sauce

        Swiss Steak

        Sugar-Free Apple Crisp

        Spritz Pressed Cookies   

        Sirloin Steak Shish kabobs

        Turkey Shish kabobs

        Snowball Cookies

 

From TV shows

http://www.dedewilson.com   Seasonings with Dede Wilson

http://www.chefsafield.com/  Chefs A' Field: Culinary Adventures that Begin on the Farm

http://www.ming.com

http://www.lidiasitaly.com Lidia’s Italy

http://www.americastestkitchen.com/   America's Test Kitchen from Cooks Illustrated

http://www.daisycooks.com/pages/main.cfm    Daisy Cooks! with Daisy Martinez

http://www.pbs.org/everydayfood/  Everyday Food

http://www.fronterakitchens.com or http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vTitle/MEXICO+--+ONE+PLATE+AT+A+TIME+WITH+RICK+BAYLESS+IV    Mexico--One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless IV

         

Restaurants

- Mr. Breakfast - Find a breakfast restaurant

Cafes Inc. - Issaquah Cafe, Village Square Cafe in Redmond+

The Dish Cafe - Between Ballard & Fremont

Famous Ezell's Chicken - "Fresh & Good & Fast!"

The Hangar Cafe - in Georgetown, Seattle - Currently my favorite breakfast.

The Hi-Life in Ballard, Seattle

Ivar's

Java Love Cafe - try their Mexican Cocoa!

The Maltby Cafe - usually bizzy but for a good reason - Try the raisin toast!

Melting Pot - fondue

Northlake Tavern & Pizza House

Pasao - Caribbean Restaurant in Ballard & Fremont

The Ridgeback Cafe in Phinney Ridge

Shultzy's Sausage - Seattle's Wurst Restaurant since 1989! By the UW

 

All Others

All Recipes Recipes

Apple Pork Chops with Sauerkraut Recipe - Crockpot Entree Recipe

Better Homes & Gardens Recipe Center Family Favorite Recipes

Betty Crocker Make Every Day Homemade

Campbell's Kitchen - Campbell Soup Recipes, Dinner Ideas, Cooking Tips, Meal-Mail

Christmas Cookie recipes

Cooking.com - Shopping Home Page

Dede Wilson

Food & Wine - Inspiration served daily

Home Cooking - Food information, history, and recipes for the home cook.

HomeGrocer.com - The Online Grocery Store for all your shopping needs.

The MacScouter -- Scouting Resources Online

Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen - Home Page
Real Good Food

Remlinger Farms

Root Beer - Homemade

Sweet onion information, sweet onion recipes - The Sweet Onion Source.

 

Conversions:

Cooking Measurment Equivalents
16 tablesppns = 1 cup
12 tablespoons = 3/4 cup
10 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons = 2/3 cup
8 tablespoons = 1/2 cup
6 tablespoons = 3/8 cup
5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon = 1/3 cup
4 tablespoons = 1/4 cup
2 tablespoons = 1/8 cup
2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons = 1/6 cup
1 tablespoon = 1/16 cup
2 cups = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart
3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon
48 teaspoons = 1 cup
U.S. to Metric
Capacity
1/5 teaspoon = 1 milliliter
1 teaspoon = 5 ml
1 tablespoon = 15 ml
1/5 cup = 50 ml
1 cup = 240 ml
2 cups (1 pint) = 470 ml
4 cups (1 quart) = .95 liter
4 quarts (1 gal.) = 3.8 liters
Weight
1 fluid oz. = 30 milliters
1 fluid oz. = 28 grams
1 pound = 454 grams
Metric to U.S.
Capacity
1 militers = 1/5 teaspoon
5 ml = 1 teaspoon
15 ml = 1 tablespoon
34 ml = 1 fluid oz.
100 ml = 3.4 fluid oz.
240 ml = 1 cup
1 liter = 34 fluid oz.
1 liter = 4.2 cups
1 liter = 2.1 pints
1 liter = 1.06 quarts
1 liter = .26 gallon
Weight
1 gram = .035 ounce
100 grams = 3.5 ounces
500 grams = 1.10 pounds
1 kilogram = 2.205 pounds
1 kilogram = 35 oz.

 

For All Who Have Difficulty Converting Units…

 

Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

1 million- microphones = 1 megaphone

2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

365.25 days = 1 unicycle

2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

52 cards = 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

10 rations = 1 decoration

100 rations = 1 C-ration

2 monograms = 1 diagram

4 nickels = 2 paradigms

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League