Welcome. Professional Recipes is a website I started 10 years ago (summer of 1999) and while it started as a personal website, where I had this crazy idea for recipe software, it grew a little bit as I learned about linking, submitting to search engines, that kind of thing (now known as SEO) and then people started to participate, sending in recipes, suggestions, and even their own tips.
Eventually, I tried to grow it into more of a recipe sharing and voting site, but the work of building a career and raising a family left little time for turning it into the type of site I had envisioned. In the wake of new technologies and inspiration from others on the web and the sense of community, I feel that now is the time to take the site to a new level and build a site from which we can share good food and drink!
This blog will serve a few purposes:
* keep the community updated on the main website, talking about new features and the like
* a source of information about food and different food and recipe related topics
* placement of articles, whether written by myself or by others that I find interesting (even topics from community members, once the time comes)
* a place to talk about specific recipes or providing cooking tips and tricks
* a place for myself to go on and on about numerous topics that may be important to me at the time (selfish, I know)!
If you have any questions about the Professional Recipes website or the Professional Recipes blog, feel free to leave a comment here or send in a suggestion via the website.
Thank you,
Jeff
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NEW FEATURES:
Food Measurement Conversion Calculator
Get the Latest Recipes: Gourmet and Homemade Recipes – RSS FEED(S) COMING SOON!
- see the newest, freshest recipes added to our site here and browse our growing list of gourmet recipes.
COMMENTS
21 Comments
Jeff the Chef
February 2nd, 2008 02:50 AM
The new site is now up at http://www.professionalrecipes.com/
on schedule at 12:01 am February 1st, 2008. We call this revision 1.0 for fun.
Scheduled Additions:
- lots more recipes
- more cooking tips, better organization
- more articles and blog entries.
Enjoy!
Jeff the Chef
February 3rd, 2008 10:21 AM
Signed up for a Tumblr account. What a great site. I’ll be adding a new feature soon using this, it should be fun.
Currently getting a new format finished for the recipes on PR and their printable counterparts. Once I convert these over, I’ll have some new recipe additions and possible another article or 2 and some more blog entries.
Jeff the Chef
February 9th, 2008 11:17 PM
Quick update on site progress:
- more recipes being added daily
- conversion of old recipes nearly complete
- while things have gone smoothly, there were a few minor issues w/ 404 errors mostly. These should be all corrected – if someone does happen upon a 404 error, please let me know by commenting here.
As you may have seen, we’ve placed advertisements on the website. It is necessary to generate the money required to move on to the next level with building a community. If you have any questions regarding these, please feel free to contact us.
Look for more recipes being added and more articles and tips coming very soon.
Thanks!
Jeff the Chef
February 12th, 2008 11:07 PM
Update:
More recipes being added every day and these will continue to feed the tumblr page for quite a while, so check the tumblr page and subscribe the RSS.
– updated/fixed code for articles printing, they now print out cleanly.
- updated/fixed code for tips page printing, they too now print out cleanly
- I’ll be adding a “Daily Recipes” page so everyone can see the latest recipes being added from the home page as well.
That’s it for now.
Jeff the Chef
February 17th, 2008 05:16 PM
I’ve updated the Gourmet Cooking page to include our new Squidoo lens and I’ll be working on some new articles to post here as well.
More recipes being added and you find these on our Tumblr page.
Jeff the Chef
March 4th, 2008 11:32 PM
Another update to some progress made on the site:
- more recipes being added/converted daily, soon all the old recipe files will be gone.
- traffic to the site has doubled in the past week, almost an instant jump. I saw the highest traffic total ever for March 3rd. A big thanks to everyone who is enjoying the website!!!
- working on adding some new design to the site
- working on adding a new recipes section, which will feed all the latest additions to the site for easy access.
- of course, working on the project
Jeff the Chef
March 6th, 2008 11:49 PM
Problem with Internet Explorer 7:
- This post is to indicate an issue with printing the recipes on IE version 7 where the page comes up blank on the Print Preview. However the good news is that the page will print normally on a printer, at least in all my tests. If you have an issue printing, please comment here.
- In Firefox, there is a slight formatting issue with the links on the recipes in the Print Preview that leaves an extra few spaces at the end of each link, but it does not affect printing in any way.
Please comment here if you have any issues with printing, or with the site in general.
Thanks!
Jeff the Chef
March 11th, 2008 09:56 PM
Comcast.net users:
I apologize for the inconvenience but it appears that we cannot send email at this time. Apparently, another client who uses my web hosting has been flagged for spamming, so currently Comcast.net email servers are blocking email coming from my and a number of other domains.
We are working to help correct the situation ASAP. Again, my apologies. Professional Recipes does not and will not spam visitors, ever. If you have any quesitons or comments, please feel free to contact us or leave a comment here. Thank you.
Jeff the Chef
March 16th, 2008 12:21 AM
- Added a Latest Recipes feed right into the website, on the recipes page where you can see the latest recipes.
- Added additional navigation for recipes lists
- cosmetic and structural updates
- working on some other changes to the site for organization and functionality purposes.
As always, we are always working towards a better site and better experience for our visitors. Any suggestions, please feel free to comment here or get involved and submit a recipe!
Jeff the Chef
April 9th, 2008 11:55 PM
- moved site search to the top of the site on the right of the screen for easier access.
Jeff the Chef
May 17th, 2008 01:47 PM
Site Update:
Our apologies for the recent lack of content lately. We have been working towards new hosting solutions so we can continue to build and grow the website and it’s counterpart.
Thanks for your patience.
Jeff the Chef
August 17th, 2008 03:29 PM
Site Update:
Featured Recipe updated to the Firewalker T-Bone Steak recipe – great recipe, I suggest you check it out and vote on it!
We’ve added a Food Conversion Calculator to the site, a useful little tool.
You’ll also see some pages using the new format for Professional Recipes. We’re updating the site to use XHTML and migrating to PHP as we go to bring you guys the best functionality we can.
Keep an eye out for new features and updates here.
Thanks for listening!
Jeff the Chef
August 21st, 2008 11:19 PM
Unfortunately, the RSS Feed for our latest recipes will no longer be available. Our apologies to anyone who was using it.
We’ll be working on a new feed as soon as possible, most likely from this blog so stay tuned.
Jeff the Chef
August 26th, 2008 08:11 PM
Most of the main pages of the site have been updated to a slightly different, but new format. It should load a little faster and look nicer! A few pages left to update still.
IE 7 users may not be able to click on images inside the blue boxes. Safari and FF users should have no issue there (switch!)
CJ
Jeff the Chef
September 2nd, 2008 02:06 AM
As you can easily see,
, I’ve updated the blog’s layout and format. I think it’s a big improvement and meshes well if the current site.
More recipes still being added. Working on a recipe search by ingredient, possibly a shared app as well. Stay tuned for more info.
Jeff the Chef
September 21st, 2008 12:57 AM
Sorry everyone about the broken site search, the code has changed and I am updating the site now.
Jeff the Chef
November 4th, 2008 11:05 PM
Hello all, apologies for no new posts in a while. We’ve been cooking up some things around here and hope to get things moving along again real soon.
Jeff the Chef
November 30th, 2008 11:02 PM
I updated the sidebar look of the site for ease of reading and to add a little color to the page. Working on some graphical and redesign updates for 09 too, stay tuned for some big changes!
Jeff the Chef
December 23rd, 2008 11:51 PM
Hey everyone, more enhancements to the site are being added regularly. Main site is now properly centered for larger screens (next up – font size adjustment) and cleaning up odds and ends before the new year. Watch for cleaner edges too!
If you take a look at the Gourmet Cooking Page, you’ll see some nice videos from YouTube on cooking in a variety of different styles. There are some How-To videos mixed in as well as solid diet-food tips for some variety.
Jeff the Chef
March 22nd, 2009 05:58 PM
Lots of updates to the site, mostly visual – cleaning up code, adding a new logo for Saint Patricks Day. Making sure things look clean and tight. I’m adding the underlying pieces of the structure for easier updates and expansion and the move to a PHP enabled server which will allow me to add a lot more features to the site such as moving the blog on site, adding a forum and other enhancements.
If you have suggestions for the site, feel free to leave them here or visit the main site here: http://www.professionalrecipes.com/contact.html
Enjoy!
Chef Jeff
October 9th, 2011 05:57 PM
Hmmm, I upgraded WordPress today and the theme I’m using and my customizations are gone. Site looks a little different today!