A New Cooking & Recipe Forum for Home Cooks

If you are looking for another fun and informative place to discuss cooking, food, recipes, techniques, check out my new Cooking Community Forum. It’s brand new and will need some design tweaking, but it’s there for you to start contributing to.

“You Have To Eat, So Learn To Cook & Eat Well”

The goal of the forum is to bring the thousands of visitors to the Reluctant Gourmet web site each day together to share stories, recipes and cooking information. I’ve had the good fortune of learning a lot of what I know about cooking from some great home cooks and some friends who are professional chefs.  Many of them I have met online.

Many of you have sent me emails with tips, techniques and recipes that all have helped me be a more resourceful cook. Now I’ve created a space where you can interact and share your thoughts and ideas with other “foodies”.

There are not many categories and individual forums up there yet but enough to get started. Just go to http://reluctantgourmet.com/forum and click on the Register check box at the top of the page.

How To Register

When you click on the link at the top of the page that says, “Register”, a page will come up that says “Registration Agreement Terms”. At the bottom of the page you will find three choices:

I Agree to these terms and am over or exactly 13 years of age
I Agree to these terms and am under 13 years of age
I do not agree to these terms

You have to be 13 or over and agree to the terms to join and you will be taken to a registration information page. Fill in your information, especially the boxes that have an (*) next to them. They are mandatory.

Important - The username and password are case sensitive as well as the Confirmation Code they ask you to supply.

Post your personal profile preferences and click “Submit”. You are now an active member of The Reluctant Gourmet Cooking Community. Yeah.

You will now see a message that says, “Thank you for registering. Your account has been created. You may now log in with your username and password. Click “Here” to return to the Index.”

Be sure to click on the Click “Here” because you are not logged in yet. You need to go to the main index page and log in.

What Will You Find There Now?

Say Hello to the Group – Here’s where you can introduce yourself to the community. Let them know a little about yourself.

Cooking Discussions - Have a question? Need help with a recipe or cooking technique? Want a suggestion on tonight’s meal? Here’s where you can ask questions, request help, offer help or discuss anything you like about cooking.

Share Your Recipes - Do you have the perfect recipe? Is there one out there? Are you looking for a recipe you enjoyed at your favorite restaurant? Here’s where you can share a favorite recipe or request a most wanted one.

Cheese Talk - What’s your favorite cheese? What cheese & wine go together? How to cook with cheese? Ask your cheese question or tell us about your favorite cheeses here. I get a lot of email asking about cheese or telling me a story about cheese someone has tried. Here you can post some of those questions and comments.

Culinary Job Postings -  If you are a restaurant, catering company or any food service business and would like to post a position, here’s where to do it.  I also receive a lot of email from restaurants and other food businesses asking if I have a job post for culinary students looking for a job when they graduate. Here is a good place to post some of those job postings.

Future Forums

As the community grows and more of you get involved we can expand the subjects to cover a lot more topics. I am very interested in learning more about my visitors and hear about what they have to say and learn from their culinary experiences.

So please take a visit to the Cooking Community Forum, sign up and start sharing. And don’t forget to tell all your friends who enjoy discussing cooking, sharing recipes and ideas to have a visit.

Thanks again for your support and look forward to seeing you at the  Community Center.

RG