Cooking Websites  

 

Objective- Student will be able to create a list of cooking websites and describe their given format.

 

Objective- Student will be able to develop an online weekly menu for a working mom of two children.

 

Introduction-  More and more people are getting back to cooking meals at home and experimenting with new ingredients and spices. Imagine never having to buy another cookbook again, all the recipes you ever wanted were right at your fingertips.  Depending on whether you like southern cooking, home-style cooking, Pan Asian or all organic, knowing where to look on the web is important to be able to find the recipes or instructions you need to make the best dish possible. With the introduction of the Food Channel, food competitions, and a more selective universal palate, knowing how to select the best food resource to make the best tasting food is imperative. 

 

         

 

Activity- Research the cooking websites listed below. Browse through their different recipes and compare the different sites for an availability of various recipes. Determine which sites offer the most variety of recipes and supportive features for you culinary exploration. When browsing through the sites, see which ones are more user friendly and which ones offer more than just recipes, maybe cooking vacations, culinary lessons, etc. As you are browsing and comparing, use the following criteria to guide you in your research. Are the recipes easily accessible? Do the recipes have ingredients that are easily found in your local grocery store? Are the recipes easy to print or email?  Does the site offer menus for different occasions?  Your assignment will be to create a list of the best cooking sites for working moms or dads to use when planning their weekly dinners for the family.

 

Food Network  (www.foodnetwork.com) This is the site of the famous TV network to feature cooking 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Look here to find your favorite cooking star, your favorite recipe, or to plan a culinary vacation.

 

Cooking Light (www.cookinglight.com) This site offers a healthy perspective on cooking with low cal, low fat recipes that taste good.  You’ll find healthy living tips, exercise plans, and much more!

 

All Recipes (www.allrecipes.com) This sites proclaims it offers “real recipes for real people.”  This site is filled with recipes used by people at home that are sent in to share.  Ingredients are simple and the recipes are easy to follow.

Epicurean (www.epicurean.com) This is a site for food and wine lovers and offers a little more choice of gourmet recipes for the selective palate.  Browse through book reviews of the latest culinary texts, read about different wines, and chat with others on their forum. 

Top Secret Recipes (http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/home.asp) This site claims to be the world’s only web site that offers original recipes that have been created from scratch in the test kitchen by Todd Wilbur. He’s been testing recipes for 15 years to bring you the recipes of those name brand items you’ve been dying to make at home.

 

Kraft Foods (http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf) This site offers a great assortment of recipes for you to use at home as well as a menu planner for those crazy weeks where everything seems to happen all at the same time. 

Meals  (www.meals.com) This site offers to make your meal planning easy.  Whether it’s Mexican, salads, or just sandwiches, this site offers over 15,000 recipes to choose from!

 

Assignment- Create a list of excellent cooking websites. List five websites providing three to four sentence annotation describing the features of the site. What makes this website more useful than the others? Include a hot link directly to the site to help guide the user. In addition, create a 2-week menu for a working mom with two kids.  Use one of the websites from your annotated list and create a 2 week calendar, with the days of the week at the top, including breakfast, lunch and dinner.

 

Submission-Post your activities as an html file to the McDaniel Web Server, create a link to the file on your index page, and send your instructor an email notification containing a hot link to the assignment (not to your index page) and the assignment file's URL.

 

Rubric

 

 

unacceptable

developing

accomplished

Cooking website list

Less than five websites are listed with little or no information describing their features.

Very little information provided about each of the cooking websites.

Well-written description of all the sites with extensive information on the useful features of each site.

2 week menu

Poorly constructed menu with multiple grammatical and spelling errors. Very few details are provided about the meals.

One or two grammatical and spelling errors.  Vague details are provided about the meals. Meals are missing from the calendar.

Contains a well constructed menu with days labeled at the top, and three meals a day listed for a two week timeframe.

 

ISTE Standards:

This activity addresses the following on ISTE Standards -

II. PLANNING AND DESIGNING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND EXPERIENCES

Teachers plan and design effective learning environments and experiences supported by technology.

Teachers:

C. Identify and locate technology resources and evaluate them for accuracy and suitability.

A complete listing of all ISTE standards can be found at:

National Educational standards for Teachers - http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_stands.html