Windows Phone App of the Day: Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List
Well, I just spent $78.00 at the grocery store and $5.50 at the fruit stand. What did I spend my weekly food allowance and $18.00 of my booze money on, you might ask? A huge can of black beans, and Italian style rotisserie chicken, a can of corn, some stewed tomatoes, and two avocados. What the hell am I going to do with that?!
Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List App for Windows Phone 7 brings recipes from the award-winning food site directly to your phone. With more than 30,000 gourmet recipes available from such reputable and delicious sources as Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and SELF, I’m hoping I can figure out something to do with the mess of ingredient I just bought.
Pros
- Free!
- Over 30,000 recipes available from reputable sources
- Save and share your favorite recipes
- Create a shopping list
- Email recipes and shopping lists to friends and family (or your eager-to-please boyfriend. Hint, Hint.)
- Access to hundreds of thousands recipe reviews and ratings from Epicurious.com members
- Clean, visually appealing user interface
- Smooth, fast scrolling
Cons
- Requires WiFi connection
- No option to share on Social Media
How It Works
- Download Epicurious Recipe & Shopping List from the Lifestyle / Food + Dining section of your Marketplace
- Open from your Apps list
- Choose from over 35 pre-loaded recipe categories, including: Super Bowl Party, Drink, Romantic Dinners, Fast & Fresh, Summer Desserts, Picnic Ideas, etc.
- Scroll to the right to view your favorites, shopping list, and last viewed recipes (Mine is a delicious drink called the “Amazonia” with Champagne, cachaca, and mint leaves because I am seriously hung over.)
- Select your desired category to view recipes by relevance, rating, see photos, alphabetically, and see your most recent recipes
- Click on your desired recipe to read the overview
- Scroll to the right to see the ingredients, preparation instructions, read reviews, and view photos
- Select the “Star” icon on the bottom of your screen to add this recipe to your favorites
- Select the “Shopping List” icon to add this recipe to your shopping list
- Email this recipe to family and friends using the “Share” icon
Conclusion
Ladies, this App will help you land a man. Guys, stop ordering from the steakhouse down the street and putting it on the plate just as your girl walks in the room. We know you can’t cook, but this App will make it a lot easier to fake it! The user interface is easy enough for even our parents to use, so for Father’s Day, why not download this App and cook up something from the “Grilling” category with your old man?
Epicurious.com is a fabulous website now with a fabulous App to match. I’d like to see the option to share your recipes on Social Media and to “pin” your favorite recipes to Pinterest and was surprised that this feature was not included, but overall, it’s a great, useful, visually pleasing app that I will definitely be using. Kudos!
This app looks interesting. But I catch Gourmandia, Gourmetrecipe, Chocolararious. This can help people to find recipes that can be easier to deal with.