Kathi's Test Kitchen for Recipes

We Test Kitchen Recipes of Other Cooks
Testing Recipes Is Good Fun!

The Test Kitchen at Thrown-Together-Meals.com is where I test out kitchen recipes from others. Testing recipes from famous chefs, popular cookbooks and cooking magazines, other cooking websites, etc.

I'm always talking about the celebrity chefs whose food and recipes I admire, people like Rachael Ray, Aarti Sequeira and Melissa D'Arabian. So I thought it might be fun if I were to share how well their recipes turned out for me in this section of the site... Kathi's Test Kitchen.

But I won't stop there... I'll also pull some recipes from various cookbooks, cooking magazines and recipe websites too. Try them out myself and let you know how these test kitchen recipes work out in the "real world"... well, MY real world anyway!

Factors I'll Test For...

Over time, I will try various recipes from each chef, testing them for the following factors:

• accuracy of ingredients & directions

• flavor

• how long they take to prepare

• quantities

• how well my family liked them

• ease of preparation

• how healthy they are

• how costly they were

I'll rate each factor and report back to you, along with an overall rating. I'll also take pictures as I go along and share those here with you too. Hopefully, you'll find it useful... or at least interesting!

I don't know how often I'll get to do this, as I am always busy making up my own recipes, but hopefully, I can test and report at least weekly on one or two new recipes.

Test Recipe Sources to Focus on...

Hey, I have to start somewhere, and these are some of my favorite inspirations for new recipes, so I'll start with these chefs, cookbooks and websites:

• Rachael Ray
• Aarti Sequeira (Aarti Party)
• Melissa D'Arabian
• Biggest Loser Cookbook
• Weight Watchers Online
• All Recipes
• Mark Bittman Everything Vegetarian cookbook
• Many more...

Want to Join in the Fun With Me?

I bet you're dying to contribute to the test kitchen experience too! If so, I'd love to have your help. Take any recipe you find... online, on TV, in your mother's recipe box... wherever... and try making it. Then come back here and let us know what happened. It's easy... just follow the directions in the next section.

What Recipes Have You Tested Lately?

Have you ever tested a recipe from a famous chef, website or magazine... or even on here or some other "amateur" website? If so, I'd love it if you would share your experience with me and the readers of this site.

Sometimes recipes sound so yummy when you read about them, and then you try them... and they ARE! Or... you try them and they just don't live up to the expectations... at all.

Which was it for you?

Thanks... and looking forward to reading about your experiences!

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