General Recipes

The iconic Delia Smith has over 1400 recipes online categorised under Main Ingredient, Type of Dish, Seasons, International, Collections, Meals and Courses, Cakes and Occasions, with many sub-categories to help you browse.

Available on the Tesco Real Food website the recipe section has a handy search by ingredient with selections for course, cuisine, cooking time, and calories.

The Independent as part of the lifestyle section has a magazine format recipe section focusing on "how to..." such as "How to prepare...", "How to make..." or "How to cook...".

As part of the lifestyle section the Guardian has a glossy recipe section. These are in categories dinner, healthy, soups, dessert, baking, salads, dinner party, italian, chinese, indian, vegetarian, seafood and meat. There's also hidden at the bottom a more extensive "recipes by category" and "recipes by cuisine".

GoodtoKnow has a recipe section as part of the Women's Network magazine. The recipes are categorised under This Month, Ingredients, Dishes, Cuisines, Occasions, Course and Diet.

Based around the popular magazine delicious. magazine there's a large range of quality recipes grouped into categories from the main menu, and a search facility that lets you search for a recipe and then filter on a range of options within the search results.

Allrecipes claims you can "Search over 20,000 recipes from home cooks" and the site certainly has a huge range of recipes and ideas. Initially the main categories are: Dish type, Ingredients, Method, Cuisines, Diet & Lifestyle, Popular collections, and Occasions.

BBC Food Recipes claim 11,325 delicious recipes when last reviewed. Well presented, as all BBC web content is, it starts with themes of In Season, Occasions, Cuisines and Dishes. The Seasonal Ingredients is a great editorial feature of the recipe collections.

Lots of great ideas and dishes from the popular celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. Easy to browse with numerous categories covering main ingredient, diets and styles of cooking. Good photos and well laid out instructions. There is also a lot of reader interaction with comments and some recipes.

Boasting more than 7000 tested recipes this is the accompanying website for the BBC Good Food magazine, and reflects the magazines content. Unlike the main BBC Food site it carries extensive advertising.