Got mama the big pimpy le creuset "french oven" for xmas, and am looking forward to the trial run; braising short ribs or pork shank or something. There are a billion recipes out there that look good on food network and on le creuset's website, but do y'all have any other go-to sites for good recipes?
Pinterest, actually... 
I get all my recipes from Grassroots Motorsports
Pinterest does have some good ones. I have used several off of allrecipes.com that were pretty good.
The best ones come from my mom, but they can be a little hard to read. She doesn't use a normal measuring system. I think they are more a reminder of what ingredients to use. 
Truthfully, I make them up. I'll see a thing I feel like cooking (see my adventure with the rutabega) and google it. Once I figure out how it behaves (In this case, like potatoes) I just sorta go for it. I've never measured a damn thing.
My wife gets some from the Food network website and a lot from old school cookbooks.
I get a lot of recipes from chefkoch.de, but you'll have to be able to read German to follow them.
Bit of a Jazz style cook myself; one pan, two glasses of wine and a cubert full of spices...but Allrecipes is a good place for inspiration.
Quick off topic question. Is the french oven similar to a dutch oven?
It looks similar other than the dutch oven being raw cast iron.
Toyman01 wrote: Quick off topic question. Is the french oven similar to a dutch oven? It looks similar other than the dutch oven being raw cast iron.
Yes, but you have to use a finger to make a moustache and make an evil laugh when you hold her under the covers.
Hahahaha!
Good comedy routine guys. Was that an intentional setup?
I like these guys: http://www.epicurious.com/
I get most of my recipes from Cooks Illustrated magazine. I believe you get online access to their recipe collection with a subscription to the mag. I like how they go in to detail about the various cooking techniques/ingredients etc that they tried, and why this version of the recipe yielded the best results. It gives me more confidence when I'm making a recipe up to understand the science behind cooking. That's probably why I like Alton Brown so much. He's like the Bill Nye of Food. 
Alton Brown is my go to recipe source. His show, Good Eats, is on Netflix now to see if his food sense aligns with your own.
For shear ease of use I often tinker around on Foodnetwork.com. It's easy and identifies the chef as well as a ton of user comments and ratings. Give it a whirl and let us know how it turns out!
I just enter the ingredients I have lying around into Google and see what turns up.
www.AllRecipies.com
The reviews prove useful.
Gary wrote: Hahahaha! Good comedy routine guys. Was that an intentional setup?
Nope, but with a target like that, I had to.
EastCoastMojo wrote: I get most of my recipes from Cooks Illustrated magazine. I believe you get online access to their recipe collection with a subscription to the mag. I like how they go in to detail about the various cooking techniques/ingredients etc that they tried, and why this version of the recipe yielded the best results. It gives me more confidence when I'm making a recipe up to understand the science behind cooking. That's probably why I like Alton Brown so much. He's like the Bill Nye of Food.
Big +1 on Alton. And while I "wing it" too, I like to understand the chemistry behind a good dish.
One Alton Brown episode turned my chicken wings from "excellent" to "legendary" (or so I'm told)
If you don't have the book "On Food And Cooking" by Harold McGee, get it. This book is what inspired Alton Brown to make his show. I guarantee it will make you a better cook.
We're with ecm, cooks illustrated is amazing, and their product reviews are top notch as well... We use them for all of our kitchen product purchases, and we haven't been led astray yet. Watch out for their hot chocolate mix, it's like drinking a thick warm dark chocolate bar. I thought it was glorious, my wife is more of a Swiss miss kinda gal and didn't think it was so great :)
RossD wrote: Alton Brown is my go to recipe source. His show, Good Eats, is on Netflix now to see if his food sense aligns with your own.
Love me some AB. Some of his recipes need a little tweaking. The ingredients are always spot on, but I find that cooking times are questionable.
To echo: I nearly always start with something Alton Brown did. I also check simply recipes. By the way, don't compare ab to bill bye, the only conclusion you can reach if that nye is a fool.
Agreed with above, Allrecipes, Epicurious, and google usually takes me to some of the Food Network personalities and Martha Stewart. Highest rating and number of reviews are usually a safe bet.
ps, I hate reviewers who modify the recipe off the bat without trying it as given, then rate it based on their version.
RossD wrote: Alton Brown is my go to recipe source. His show, Good Eats, is on Netflix now to see if his food sense aligns with your own.
Have they added more? From what I saw there was just 1 "season" that was just a collection of different episodes from the entire series.
But he's typically the first person I look to for recipes.
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