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Recipes from facebook

drizzellla — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:01:20 GMT

On occasion on my Facebook page, I receive a recipe from many different sources. I received a recipe from Bon Appetit for stuffed sweet potatoes.

I thought it would be a recipe that my son would eat. There were no tomatoes, onions, peppers, mushrooms - well you get the idea. Ingredients in many recipes that he will not eat.

I watched the stuffed sweet potatoes video. It listed the ingredients but not the measurements. I winged it. And made it according to what looked like the amounts in the video.

Am I missing a step on the video? I did not see anywhere indicating a print out of the recipe. And this isn't the only site - Tasty does the same. Is it me? Am I missing something?

Re: Recipes from facebook

jannabelle1 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:23:01 GMT

@drizzellla, I've found that we need to keep clicking from one page to the next (on and on) to finally get to a recipe. And in the meantime, we put up with ads after more ads. I've stopped clicking on some wonderful looking recipes on Facebook for that reason. It slows my computer down and takes forever to get to what I'm looking for!

Re: Recipes from facebook

sunshine45 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:41:07 GMT

often there is a link you can click that will take you to the entire recipe rather than just the video. if you dont want to click on the link, you can always view the website/blog that is a part of the link, go to that blog or website, then put the name of the recipe into the search bar on that site.

what is the name of the recipe?

Re: Recipes from facebook

Kachina624 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:57:16 GMT

I've made a few of those recipes and wasted a lot of money on ingredients because they were awful. No more.

Re: Recipes from facebook

drizzellla — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:06:38 GMT

@sunshine45 wrote:
often there is a link you can click that will take you to the entire recipe rather than just the video. if you dont want to click on the link, you can always view the website/blog that is a part of the link, go to that blog or website, then put the name of the recipe into the search bar on that site.

what is the name of the recipe?

The name is Loaded Sweet Potatoes with Cholula Hot Sauce Yogurt

It also had broccoli and chic peas. I followed the cooking times and burned the broccoli. They said the broccoli was to cook at 425 for 20-25 minutes. It was swiveled up and dark brown.

Re: Recipes from facebook

SXMGirl — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:23:58 GMT

@drizzellla, I get recipes from FB all of the time, but I only use trusted sites. I also look closely at the directions to make sure that they make sense. There are too many reviews of sites that state that they leave out ingredients or get the amounts mixed up. Tonight, I made a blueberry lemon cake from Natasha's Kitchen and it is excellent. I also made Serene's lemon cookies and they are always a hit. Look for sites that let you sign up for daily recipes. Those are generally very good. I find that Bon Apetit recipes have always been a little too frou frou for me. I apparently have a pedestrian taste.

Re: Recipes from facebook

sunshine45 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:23:20 GMT

@drizzellla wrote:
@sunshine45 wrote:
often there is a link you can click that will take you to the entire recipe rather than just the video. if you dont want to click on the link, you can always view the website/blog that is a part of the link, go to that blog or website, then put the name of the recipe into the search bar on that site.

what is the name of the recipe?

The name is Loaded Sweet Potatoes with Cholula Hot Sauce Yogurt

It also had broccoli and chic peas. I followed the cooking times and burned the broccoli. They said the broccoli was to cook at 425 for 20-25 minutes. It was swiveled up and dark brown.

@drizzellla

here is the full recipe with a list of ingredients and measurements. did you use fresh broccoli?

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/weve-loaded-up-these-sweet-potatoes-with-some-of-your-favorite-flavors

Re: Recipes from facebook

drizzellla — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 01:18:06 GMT

@sunshine45 wrote:
@drizzellla wrote:
@sunshine45 wrote:
often there is a link you can click that will take you to the entire recipe rather than just the video. if you dont want to click on the link, you can always view the website/blog that is a part of the link, go to that blog or website, then put the name of the recipe into the search bar on that site.

what is the name of the recipe?

The name is Loaded Sweet Potatoes with Cholula Hot Sauce Yogurt

It also had broccoli and chic peas. I followed the cooking times and burned the broccoli. They said the broccoli was to cook at 425 for 20-25 minutes. It was swiveled up and dark brown.

@drizzellla

here is the full recipe with a list of ingredients and measurements. did you use fresh broccoli?

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/weve-loaded-up-these-sweet-potatoes-with-some-of-your-favorite-flavors

Thank you! I appreciate your finding it for me.

Yes, I used fresh broccoli. In fact I looked at it while it was cooking and it looked so green - I should have taken it out of the oven then. But it had more than 10 minutes to cook according to the recipe.

Re: Recipes from facebook

drizzellla — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 01:37:51 GMT

Sunshine45

I can't believe it. The portions I used for the sauce is exactly what the recipe called for. I was going by the pictures and the size of the container.

Except for the burnt broccoli - everyone liked it. My son really liked the sauce.

Thanks again for the entire recipe.

Re: Recipes from facebook

ID2 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:48:17 GMT

I found 12 Tomatoes on Facebook and have made many, many very good, tasty meals from their recipes! I highly recommend!

Re: Recipes from facebook

151949 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:51:56 GMT

I used to get recipes from FB occasionally, but now I find when I do that I start getting endless spam ads, so I don't even try to go there anymore. It just fills your computer up with trash.

Re: Recipes from facebook

software — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:32:56 GMT

I prefer to go directly to a website than to wrestle my way around FB.

D@mn Delicious dot net is another good website I found through FB

Lots of Instant Pot recipes there, but all kinds of good, simple recipes.

I feel the same way about Pinterest, which for the most part gets on my last nerve but I'd rather navigate directly to a website instead of clicking through ads.

Re: Recipes from facebook

CelticCrafter — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:01:01 GMT

@Kachina624 - I agree! I now steer clear of FB recipes.

Re: Recipes from facebook

dooBdoo — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 09:46:57 GMT

Just a simple caution about clicking on Facebook recipes, ads, etc.. Unless you've actually "liked" the site's Facebook page and are seeing the posts directly from their Facebook account, most of the posts are "clickbait" or the occasional "like-farming." Those links collect even more of your personal data than just the usual Facebook data mining, and sometimes clicking on them can generate spam or access malicious software.

Best bet is to copy the recipe name (or store name if it's a shopping promotion), go to your search engine of choice, plug in the recipe name (or store name) there, and find the website directly.

Re: Recipes from facebook

tiny 2 — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:26:30 GMT

@dooBdoo, Thank You!!!!

Re: Recipes from facebook

Imaoldhippie — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:34:55 GMT

One of the best places I find recipes is Pinerest. Just type in the name or key words and you get hundreds of recipes.

I also like Tasty Kitchen, this site is regular folks recipes and the ones I have made are very good and does not have a lot of ingrediants that you have to buy special and not use again.

My other sources are Pioneer Woman, Trisha Yearwood and Paula Deen.

Re: Recipes from facebook

Financialgrl — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:25:18 GMT

@jannabelle1 wrote:
@drizzellla, I've found that we need to keep clicking from one page to the next (on and on) to finally get to a recipe. And in the meantime, we put up with ads after more ads. I've stopped clicking on some wonderful looking recipes on Facebook for that reason. It slows my computer down and takes forever to get to what I'm looking for!

^This. On many recipes on FB it's like that. After many many complaints about how the person can keep their !!?? recipe bc they are not clicking through everything - eventually someone copies and pastes it!!