Head above water

So between feedings and diaper changes I've finally managed to push a couple of new features live! The recipe list view is improved a bit (at least, I think it's an improvement) and you can now rate your own recipes. Thanks so much to our faithful RecipeThing users who have so politely asked for new features. Let me know in the comments to this post what you'd like to see next...

Checking in...

Hi RecipeThingers -

Long time no see. I had a guilt complex when user Lisa wrote:

Nick, I LOVE the recipe thing, and have started using it and telling my friends about it. However, your blog is somewhat outdated (Thanksgiving is your last update??) Are you supporting/updating recipe thing?? I would be so disappointed if you were not!

So I wrote back to Lisa letting her know that RecipeThing is still alive and kicking and we will be rolling out some new features in the coming weeks. The excuse is that we have a new RecipeThing user at our house who is just four weeks old!

Happy Thanksgiving!

To you and yours. We are busily making pumpkin pies and sweet potatoes to take over to our friends' for dinner tomorrow. Whatever you are cooking, have a good time!

Thanksgiving Resource

WaPo has a great online food section for Thanksgiving, coming up next week!

Food in (Internet) Space

Well, well, there has been quite a flurry of happenings in the food agglomeration of the cyber whosits. First of all, RecipeThing lauched. That was a seminal moment.

No, no, seriously. A few days ago whilst we all slept, Yahoo went live with "Yahoo Food." It is a very attractive site, and it appears to be highly informed by All Recipe's color palette even--this does look like a very collaborative venture. It's got vids and so forth. So that's quite a find, and probably a good move for Yahoo.

Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for their work on this. They did a mockup of what a Google-Food page would look like, and it advocates a trick that RecipeThing does, i.e. to let you put a recipe in your database.

Chicken Soup

We have been a little under the weather here at RecipeThing, and I made some chicken soup. That got me to remembering a conference I went to where the presenter, Dr. Stephen Rennard, a pulmonologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, talked about his clinical research into the salutary effects of the medicinal broth. Bottom line: it works!

Here is the recipe from Dr. Rennard's study (here is the abstract), which I got from his website at the University.

1 5- to 6-pound stewing hen or baking chicken
1 package of chicken wings
3 large onions
1 large sweet potato
3 parsnips
2 turnips
11 to 12 large carrots
5 to 6 celery stems
1 bunch of parsley
Salt and pepper to taste

Clean the chicken, put it in a large pot and cover it with cold water. Bring the water to boil. Add the chicken wings, onions, sweet potato, parsnips, turnips and carrots. Boil about 1 and a half hours. Remove fat from the surface as it accumulates. Add the parsley and celery. Cook the mixture about 45 min. longer. Remove the chicken. The chicken is not used further for the soup. (The meat makes excellent chicken parmesan.) Put the vegetables in a food processor until they are chopped fine or pass through a strainer. Both were performed in the present study. Salt and pepper to taste. (Note: This soup freezes well.)

Matzoh balls were prepared according to the recipe on the back of the box of matzoh meal (Manischewitz).

Behold the blogroll!

So I finally got some time to sit down and work on my blogroll here. Mind you, I've not finished yet. I am not discriminating, so if you would like your foodblog listed, let me know! This post is dedicated to all those wonderful foodbloggers out there and the cool stuff they do. Take a look at some of these people's blogs, they are good.