For all our lives we have lived with our cookbooks. We tag pages, put on stickies, and know some favorite pages. But as time goes on, there can be almost too much to remember. And then there is Google. Just type in “applie pie recipe” and you will have a mere 2,940,000 sites to consider. Yes, you’ll narrow it down, but sometimes the web can be overpowering.
That’s why I’m delighted to steer you to a website that is, well, a tad more practical. www.foodpairing.be is a gem. It is a site devoted to what goes with what: what matches well with roast beef. And, what can you sustitute for what: if you are out of butter, which cheeses can you use.
You’ll need a moment to figure out how to use the site — the menus are sliders coming in from the side. There’s a good video tour which I encourage you to take. Then you can discover, for example, what will work with that roast lamb you may be planning for Easter:
