This week we will investigate into a recipe collection tool known as @PepperPlateApp.

Over the years recipes are traded, collected, lost, modified, and ultimately passed down. There are many tools out there that can collect recipes, organize them, modify them, and much more. Before the invention of the computer many recipes were kept in binders, books, and cards. With the invention of computers and the internet and smartphones applications and websites like Pepperplate started to…

Trying to get to grips with actually using Pepperplate to plan my meals and shopping lists. Here's my menu for next week (woo go me for being super organised), I just did my grocery shop online and that will be being delivered on friday, just got to go to wholefoods for some vital wheat gluten (seitan flour), coconut nectar, and I really want to try some Vegg in my tofu scramble too so will have to go on a little mission to find that.

Appy Hour: Pepper Plate

Price: Free

Are you one of those intrepid cooks who made the New Year's resolution to start meal planning? Well this app can help you do just that! What I love about it is you can just copy and paste the web address of a recipe and then it automatically uniformly formats it and extracts a shopping list for that dish. I've been using it as my online recipe book and it's great to use on your iPad in the kitchen.

More information can be found here.

This is going to be a good week for foods :D

 I met Gretta, one of the founders of Pepperplate,  nearly two years ago through a food blogger friend. She told me about Pepperplate and demonstrated how it works on an iPad. I was amazed at what it can do. Pepperplate takes a different approach. Instead of being pre-populated with recipes, it let you bookmark and save recipes into your Pepperplate account. From there, you create weekly meal plans,  grocery lists also share recipes with friends.

For Thanksgiving, Pepperplate is a hero. As a food blogger, I have been obsessively bookmarking recipes that I want to use for Thanksgiving. Pepperplate has a Chrome browser bookmarklet, so you can easily import recipes when you spot them.  Pepperplate manages your recipes which can be combine into Thanksgiving menus, then share with friends and family before and after the big day. Pepperplate syncs on your devices so it automatically arranges the list to the way you do grocery shopping. Pepperplate also has with multiple cooking timers on its iPad version so you can keep track each dish.