Mobile apps–and some recipes–spotted on the web… These recipes, from cookbook apps, can serve as the basis for a simple and quick summer dinner menu, with appetizer, soup, salad, grilled entree, and dessert. Plus, we’re highlighting a bonus recipe below for a second dessert. Because you can never have too many dessert choices, right?
Crunchy Corn Guacamole – from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food, by Mark Bittman
Pumpkin Soup — from Art of the Slow Cooker App
Carrot Salad with Cumin — from How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food, by Mark Bittman
Ancho Chili and Cinnamon Shrimp — from Grill-It!
Almond Shortcake with Triple Berry Sauce — from The Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook
Other cookbook/recipe apps to note:
Mr. Boston’s Official Mobile Bartender’s Guide
Jamie Oliver’s 20-Minute Meals
Seriously Good Gluten-Free Living App
If you’re anything like us, you’re going to want to download all of these apps to your mobile-device-of-choice. Before you do, here’s one more: Chow and Chatter to Go, from Rebecca Subbiah.
The approximately 80 recipes (with more to come, according to Rebecca), can be searched by dish, ingredient, or cuisine. The 19 cuisines are impressively varied and include Turkish, Costa Rican, and Colombian. And since the author is British and her husband is Indian, the app is especially strong in these cuisines, including recipes such as Fisherman’s Pie, Victoria Sandwich, Black Chick Pea Curry, and Coconut Lamb Curry.
What I like most about this app is that when I’m standing in the grocery store, with no idea of what to cook that night, I can pull out my iPhone, choose a cuisine or ingredient, and quickly find an unusual, healthy (Rebecca is a registered dietician), and not-too-complicated dish: Chow and Chatter to Go, to the rescue!
Featured Recipe: Chocolate Orange Cake
Author Rebecca Subiah states:
Here’s another wonderfully easy chocolate cake recipe. With the addition of orange juice, it was moist and yummy! I made this for my Mum and Dad’s arrival, although there was only half left, as my daughter and I snacked on it. Oops!
Cooks&Books&Recipes says:
This cake perfectly fulfills our desire for simple, delicious, yet still out-of-the-ordinary — all wrapped up in a beautiful presentation.
Photo credit: Rebecca Subbiah
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Chocolate Orange Cake
- 4 oz self-rising flour
- 4 oz butter
- 2 small eggs
- 4 oz sugar
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
- a little powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup fresh orange juice
- 1. Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs
- 2. Mix in the flour, cocoa and orange juice little by little
- 3. Bake in the oven at 350 for 25 minutes
- 4. Dust with the powdered sugar and garnish with fresh orange slices
© Rebecca Subbiah
