Broadened Horizons

The Internet has had a great influence on my love of cooking. I use it to find recipes, research cookware (I'm currently researching Dutch ovens. Feel free to give me suggestions.), and buy ingredients.

Well, that last one isn't entirely true. The only food I've actually purchased online is fun-shaped pasta from The Pasta Shoppe.

But there plenty of other food sites out there. A popular site for former residents of the Tri-State area is Jersey Pork Roll, where one can purchase all those infamous Jersey treats, like Pork Roll, Sabretts, and Tastykakes.

And there's Local Harvest, a site that allows you to find local farms and farmers markets, so you can find the freshest produce and products possible. Since moving to Poconos I've become a huge fan of buying local, and visit my farmers market every week, from May through October.

And I recently started browsing a site I read about in Country Living magazine: Foodzie. The jams look delicious and I love honey. I'm like a kid on Christmas morning as I browse the categories. I've hit the motherload!

I've come a long way from macaroni and cheese, Rice-a-Roni, and my weekly trip to the supermarket.