Cooking by craving, curiosity, or leftovers

I've just been introduced to what may very well be my new favorite food-site: CookThink.com. I'm geeky excited about browsing through this site to plan next week's meals.

Craving some good southern comfort food? A rhubarb infused desert? Gluten-free Italian dinner? How about a light summery dish of grilled chicken? You can search for them all, and discover just the recipe you need, complete with tantalizing pictures and short description.

To steal a line from their FAQ:

Cookthink is a personalized cooking and recipe website that helps you find recipes to suit your cravings - hence our tag line, "what are you craving?" Most of our recipes are for everyday meals that are easy to prepare and cook during a busy work week."

Each recipe offers suggestions for other recipes that match well, so that you can easily create a full-course meal from a single ingredient. It's also a great way to explore your own flavor tastes to discover foods you might not have known about.

The recipes are composed by a large group of chefs, food bloggers, cookbooks, etc. Plenty of recipe websites out there allow submissions by any visitor, which can lead to some very creative recipes, but can also lead to a cluttered list of terrible options. By only allowing a select group of authors, they can keep the recipes full of fresh, natural, and simple ingredients. This also means that I can easily stick to the fresh and natural (possibly organic) foods that I love!

Best of all, the entire service is free.