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Central American is okay, but would be better if you at least made an option to label by country, like "other" would have. Also, I'd suggest breaking into North (including Central) and South American. But that's just me.
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Middle Eastern is different from Mediterranean. Israeli, Saudi Arabian, Turkish, Lebanese, etc. food should all be Middle Eastern.
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I think, though, that Middle Eastern food is more appropriately grouped with Greek and Italian than, say, Indian. There are certain dishes (like hummus) and certain ingredients (olives, fish, figs) that are mediterranean and middle eastern.
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That's very true, Annie. If you're going to break it down, I'd give it a separate category, but if not, group with Mediterranean.
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I will not disrespect Alton like that. If someone has an adaptation, feel free to post it (with credit preferably). But I can't compete with him, nor do I intend to try.
Oh, vwiggin, you have edit rights. I'm too tired to do the categories now. As long as people have edit rights, we can accumulate recipes and recategorize them later. I did add Mexican, though.
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Just added a chicken enchilada recipe. It is a cream-sauce, not a red sauce, and is not really very Mexican, but is mighty good.
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That kind of reminds me of my chicken sour cream enchiladas I've been meaning to make for, like, a week. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Yes, I did, but it's not the same as mine. Mine is simpler-- shredded cooked chicken, sour cream, salsa, and herbs get mixed, rolled in a tortilla, topped with cheese, and baked.
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Oh. that sounds good, too. This one is almost like a casserole when it is done, even though each enchilada comes out separately.
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First, I added the ability to browse an entire group. If you click on Cuisine, you'll see an outline with each category, and under each category all the recipes. This will get too big to be useful for a lot of categories, but when I break the Cuisine categories into regions, it will make browsing easier, and make the individual breakdown by region less limiting.
Second, anyone who can add a recipe can now comment on the recipes. Soon I will open up commenting to anyone who registers at princeclan, but for now I wanted to test it with people I know. It should be obvious how to use. If you log into the site, and you have rights to add a recipe, you will see an add comment form at the bottom of each recipe. Type the comment, click "add comment," and you're done.
To edit a comment you've entered, simply click the tiny edit link below the comment. Only admins (me ) or the person who entered a comment can edit.
They're sorted in the order added.
EDIT: UBB support has been added for comments and the description, ingredients, and directions fields. Only the bold, underline, italics, and URL tags work - I don't intend to add any others. There's no edit helper for them - you can use FireFox's BBCode add in or just type by hand. I used the URL feature to link some "goes with" notes in the description.
Also, I'd like to look into making a printable view. My plan to do this is to use Javascript to open a new window and write all the code within a particular <div> to that window. Does anyone know if a function exists to do this?
My next planned upgrade, besides bug fixes and adding userrights for adding if anyone else registers, are the printable view and redoing the cuisine categories.
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Very cool, Dag. I've looked at a lot of recipes so far, but my only comment at this time is that I want Annie to come cook for me. I'll have to make some so I can tell everyone how good they are.
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Wow! Awesome, Dag! This site is my new favorite pasttime.
I added several Algerian recipes, and even utilised the comment feature to answer my own question about smen.
The one thing I haven't added is my recipe for hummus, because I never measure out amounts of anything when I make it. I know the difference between my two-cans-of-chick-peas batch and my five-cans-of-chick-peas batch, but I have yet to quantify it into an easily transmittable format.
I'll keep you posted.
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Ever hear of Keith Secola? He is a Native American rocker(Ojibwe) who has a great song called "Frybread."
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I haven't, Liz, but I'll look him up. I am a big fan, though, of Indigenous, and I think you'd like them. They're very bluesy.
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Annie, check Keith Secola's schedule. He is definitely more fun live, as he often has native dancers, and the crowd joins in.
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I'm going to ask again if people want me to point out spelling and such . . . some people didn't answer before, or hadn't any recipes entered before.
(No, I don't have OCD. I took the test!)
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Also, I cannot see any comments. And I'm pretty sure someone said they had made some. And the link from one recipe to another doesn't seem to work.
Wow, I nitpick a lot. Um, Dags, thanks again for all the hard work. And everyone who entered recipes. This is great!
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There are only comments for 3 recipes so far: Sopa Conde, Couscous Algerois, and Seffa Couscous.
The links in some of the descriptions have some errors in the UBB code for the links. I checked in the Seffa Couscous recipe, and the problem was the quotes around the URL.
Quotes areound the URL inside the brackets don't work.
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I think I fixed all my link troubles. Hopefully I won't be linking to random pages on your site anymore, Dag. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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Well, maybe you will, but now you've got me going on it...
Could you maybe add a category for "breads" or some such? I added pie crust under desserts, but that's not what it really is; it's a multi-purpose crust I use for desserts, main dishes, and side dishes. I also have some quick breads I'd like to add.
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Um, Dags, thanks again for all the hard work. And everyone who entered recipes. This is great!
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