Free Recipes

Here we list and review free recipe databases and recipe management software. Browse our reviewed listings and find thousands of totally free recipes for download. If you are looking for chicken, beef, fish, lamb, soup, appetizer, cookie, vegetarian, vegan or any other type of cooking recipes, we've done all the hard work for you by reviewing and listing them on this page. Here you'll find recipes for just about every cuisine from Asian to Turkish and everything in-between. Plus, we've also reviewed and listed our favorite recipe management freeware programs. These excellent free software packages have loads of cool features to help you import, store, categorize, print and export your recipes.

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Free Recipes and Cookbooks

Cajun Cooking Recipes
Offers a bevy of free recipes from around the world...plus, free cooking tips, e-cookbook, craft instructions, and much more.

100's of Free Easy Recipes form Real Home Cooks
This site offers loads of free really easy recipes for dinner, other quick meal ideas & much more. All of the easy recipes here are from Real Home Cooks. In addition to yummy home cooked recipes, they offer two home cooking contests, great dinner ideas for tonight and lively cooking discussion on everything relating to cooking at home.

4 Free Gooseberry Patch Cookbooks
Whip up a budget-friendly, country dinner! Get a set of 4 Gooseberry Patch Cookbooks free, details apply. The recipes use ingredients you already have for everyday favorites and seasonal specials. This 4 book set makes a great holiday gift, or keep them for yourself. U.S. only.

Free eCookbook of Top Secret Restaurant Copycat Recipes
Ever wonder how a restaurant makes that favorite meal you always order? Now you can find out. This free eCookbook features 33 secret restaurant copycat recipes. Sign-up to receive their newsletter and get the eCookbook for free. U.S. only.

CooksRecipes - 1000's of Free Recipes & More
Browse through thousands of quality recipes by category or use their Search Tool. Plus, free online culinary help, cookery charts, kitchen tips and more.

Free Shrimp Recipe Booklet from SeaPak
Fill out their short survey and get a free booklet that includes tasty recipes for shrimp. U.S. only.

Mimi's Cyber Kitchen
Here's a huge well organized site with tons of free recipes and much more. The site Lists hundreds of Mimi's own recipes in a large categorized archive plus, useful information sections on just about every aspect of cooking at home. Jewish visitors will especially like Mimi's Koshar sections. The site also offers a unique greeting card setup where visitors can send recipes to friends in a neat card format.

Free eCookbook: 22 Quick and Easy Healthy Chicken Recipes
This free eCookbook: features over 30 pages of tasty and healthy chicken recipes + FaveDiets Quick and Healthy Recipes newsletter for free! Get this brand new free eCookbook collection of crowd-pleasing healthy chicken recipes perfect for any meal. You'll find tons of tasty healthy chicken dinners, including healthy chicken breast recipes, healthy chicken wings and much more! The eCookbook has easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for favorites, including Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken (page 21), Chicken Wings with Barbecue Sauce (page 30) and Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken (page 26). U.S. only.

Free Blueberry Recipes
This site serves up a selection of free blueberry recipes. They list separate recipe categories for blueberry pies, muffins, smoothies and more. The site also offers blog where you can add your own blueberry recipes and view those submitted by others.

Food & Cooking
Food & Cooking serves up an impressive collection of free food and cooking resources including hundreds of free recipes in their online database. All recipes are listed with a color photo.

Free Baking Lessons
Free online, printable baking lessons, over 180 pages of instructions, tips, and recipes. More than an e-cookbook, you will receive a downloadable baking lesson each week for eight weeks. Each lesson includes text, practice recipes, and shopping resources. No cost or obligation.

Free Old Time Cooking Recipes
Offers over 500 old time recipes in categories that include Amish, Soups, Pasta, Meats, Breads, Deserts and more. Main categories are broken down into sub categories and individual offers are listed with photos of the finished dish. The site also lists many recipe books you can download in Adobe PDF format.

Land O'Lakes - Free Recipes
Loads and loads of free recipes from everyone's favorite butter site!

All Recipes.com
Here is an excellent recipe and food fact resource. There are over 20,000 free user submitted recipes to choose from here that cover deserts to main dishes. The site allows visitors to print recipes in three formats that include 3x5 and 4x6 cards plus, a full page option as well.

Free Pork Recipe Brochures
Choose from over 18 different free pork recipe brochures from "The Daily Pork" website. U.S. only.

Free California Ripe Olives Recipe Book
For a limited time visit their site and fill out the form to request a free recipe book entitled "Eating Well with California Ripe Olives". The book includes new recipes created in the kitchens of Eating Well magazine. U.S. only.

Jiffy Mix - Free Cookbook
Register with them and get a free Jiffy Mix recipe cook book. U.S. Only.

CDKitchen.com
Here's a well done free recipe site with over 4600 recipes in categories that include Bakers Dozen, Main Course, Back to The Basics, Microwave Cooking, One Dish Recipes, Cafeteria Line, Perfect Pasta, Refreshment Stand, Copy Cat - Restaurant and many more. In addition to the above the site also has an archived database of over 100,000 newsgroup recipes that are searchable by month and day.

Free Recipes from Alive
Visit Alive.com and check out the bevy of healthy recipes they offer for free. All recipes are categorized so it's easy to find the ones you want here.

The Electronic Gourmet Guide
Here's a cool free recipe site with an even cooler free monthly newsletter devoted to food, wine, cooking and fun. E.G.G. was named Winner of Global Network Navigator's Second Annual Best of the Net Awards in the 1995 Food & Wine category. The newsletter is published on the 1st of every month. The site also has recipe message boards and links to loads of other food resources on the Web.

Hattie's Kitchen
Here's a site that not only offers free recipes, but is also a touching memorial to it's founder. The site was originally done by Susan "Hattie" Steinsapir who recently passed away at a very young age of heart failure. It is now faithfully maintained by her loving and devoted husband Andreas. The site offers many original recipes for Venison, Goat Cheese Torta, and other unusual and exotic foods.

Bangkok Cuisine's Spice Market
Love Thai food? Then check out this site. The site offers many useful tips on Thai cooking, an array of free Thai recipes and a complete list of Thai and Chinese ingredients. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in a while. However, there are still some good Thai recipes to be found here.

Free Vegetarian Starter Kit
Ever thought about becoming a vegetarian but didn't know where to start? Visit the official PETA site and request a free copy of their colorful vegetarian starter kit, packed full of recipes and tips on making the switch to a complete animal free diet.

Free Recipe Management Software

Recipe Center
Recipe Center is a freeware version of EGS' recipe management programs. This software serves as a tool for you to store your recipe collections. The software allows you to store recipe pictures, create shopping lists and print recipes in various formats. You can also share recipes with your family and friends via email. The programs interface is well laid out, intuitive and easy to use even for newbies. Help and support are abundant for the program as well. Recipe Center features include IntelliSense data entry, Import/Export, Recipe Resizing, Advanced Search Filters, Recipe Card Printing, Shopping List Creator, Unit Conversion Tool, Advanced Recipe Encoder, Spell Checker and more.
Download Recipe Center. For Win 2000, XP and Vista | File size 8.77 MB.

Recipe Manager
While not as powerful as Recipe Center (above), Recipe Manager offers loads of cool features to manage and organize your recipe collection. The programs interface is intuitive even though a little antiquated. Recipe Manager features include Category Viewer, Data Search, Tabbed Ingredient Viewer, Browser (HTML) View, Recipe Add Wizard, Nutrition Advisor and more. The program does have one feature that trumps other like programs. The HTML function allows you to not only view recipes in your browser up upload them to a website already formatted. Drawbacks of the program include a very limited import/export function and a limited recipe starter database.
Download Recipe Manager. For Win 98 Me NT 2000 and XP | File size 10.7 MB.

Now You're Cooking! - Free 60 Day Evaluation
Now You're Cooking! is an excellent recipe/menu/shopping list shareware database program for Windows. It lets you organize your recipes by category or in whole cookbooks, then prepare shopping lists from your weekly menu plan. The program even has a place to list your coupons and zips your cookbook when you're done. You can download a free trial of the software that has a 60 day evaluation period...after which you will have to buy the product or stop using it.
Download Now You're Cooking! For Win 9.x, NT4, XP, ME and 2000 | File Size: 4.66 MB.