Cooking Comically

The modern age has replaced a library of cookbooks with countless recipe websites, along with a few cooking tips and tricks here and there. That should enable everyone to cook up a feast, right? Provided that you found all the ingredients and have the moolah to buy them.

I must say, though, that budget and fancy ingredients aside, the recipe websites never appealed to me. I may not love cooking as much as my husband, but I do like to spend time in the kitchen – not just to make sandwiches . And I continuously look for new recipes that will surprise my husband. I’ve been looking and looking, but all the cooking websites I’ve seen so far has bored me.

Until a friend showed me Cooking Comically.

Cooking Comically's cover image for their Caramel Apple recipe

I mean, who would not be intrigued by this cover image?

And the recipe itself? One looooooooong image with “keeping-it-real” notes. I’m talking about 9300 pixels long! With simple as hell and straight to the point instructions! Even my 5-year-old can follow these instructions. But I probably won’t let this be his first “cookbook” because there are a lot of words that are not appropriate for his age.

Now this is the part that got me hooked. Check out this “excerpt” of their recipe for chili con carne, which they call “2AM CHILI“.

How cool is that?!? I feel like the page is talking directly to me.

Click on the image if you want to see – no, ENJOY the whole recipe. I actually insist that you check out the whole recipe.

The ingredient list is strategically placed at the end of the image – which makes sense for me because the way I use recipes is I read the procedures first before I look at the complete ingredient list. That way, when I see the ingredients, I already know what they’re for – why I need to sets of this vegetable, what “julienne” means, etc.

The structure and the tone, most especially, of Cooking Comically may not suit everyone. For me, however, it is the perfect “accomplice” to surprising my very kitchen-able husband.

This website and the speakers I’m gonna set up soon.

Credits to Cooking Comically for the images used.