Realizing that this is a liiittle out of scope for this blog, I need to add this link to:
Posting the link here is just more practical than emailing it to a list of people.
This site is an index of cookbook content. It includes no recipes, but can provide very good access to the guts of one's print cookbook collection.
I have nothing to do with the site's creators, and know nothing about them or their business model.
What I do know, is that I just searched the keyword 'edamame', and it kicked out a results list of a bunch of cookbooks with recipes using edamame -- which included a bunch of titles that I own. Registration permits one to create a list of all of one's cookbooks; and the search engine includes a checkbox permitting one to limit search results to those titles. I've not yet created an account on the site, but I plan to. This is the first such site that I've seen that doesn't appear to require a paid subscription to permit the addition of more than a few titles to one's personal list -- but there may be others, and if not, there probably will be soon.
Anyway. In case you end up with a CSA delivery of, like, a bushel of okra... This site might help you quickly decide how to use the okra, so you can devote more of your time to prepping the okra. I enjoy physically paging through my cookbooks; but sometimes I'm as shredded as the kale in the crisper drawer, and need to just do something with said kale before it turns to compost.
The Database doesn't have a mobile app, nor does a mobile version of the site appear to exist. (Yet?) But the full site appears to be fairly mobile-friendly. And as noted above, it is just an index, providing references to books that one would need to grab off of the shelf. (Unless one has begun assembling a significant collection of cookbooks in Kindle format...) (I can imagine searching the Database on my Kindle Fire, while standing in front of the bookcase. Kind of like 'Mattel Home OPAC'.)
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