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January 4, 2012 By Lisa Dearen 9 Comments

Pepperplate: My New Favorite Food App

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I consider myself a highly organized person but I think that vision is of a former self. Today my organizational tendencies lean toward drawers filled with files marked, simply, 2011, 2010 and so on. And while I’m usually able to find receipts, travel articles and school work (although I must confess I recently received yet another copy of some form my daughter’s school needed), it’s usually after a frantic search that has me wondering what I needed in the first place. At the end of the day, I suppose my system is more Lucille Ball than Martha Stewart.

That all changed, at least from a recipe collecting perspective, the moment I met Pepperplate. Pepperplate is like an aggregate recipe box, allowing you to import, via URL, recipes from popular food sites like Food & Wine, Food Network, Real Simple even the aforementioned Martha Stewart. There’s also a manual import function, which seamlessly formatted my own blog recipes by ingredient, method, URL and photo. There’s also a spot, once the recipe is configured, to add your own notes.

Now, instead of 100s of emails from my favorite food sites, I’ve got actual recipes that I can sort by user-defined category. When I’ve got a moment here and there, I’ll sort through my virtual email recipe collection, purging recipes in the “what was I thinking?” category and gaining excitement over recipes I’d long forgotten.

What makes Pepperplate so robust, however, is the menu planning and shopping list options. For Christmas, I loaded up a handful of recipes, added them to the planner, shuffled that to my shopping list, and voilà! A printable list, organized by aisle, that impressed friends I ran into at the market (one looked at her fistful of notes in disgust, telling me I was way more organized than she was).

Maybe Pepperplate will make an organized girl of me yet. It’s never too late to try.

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  1. Stephanie Tramontozzi says

    January 4, 2012 at 5:02 PM

    Thanks for introducing me to a great site! I definitely need help in the organization department!

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    • The Gonzo Gourmet says

      February 16, 2012 at 5:13 PM

      Hi Stephanie – thanks for stopping by! Pepperplate has been great in helping me get organized.

      Reply
  2. Jolene (www.everydayfoodie.ca) says

    January 4, 2012 at 5:12 PM

    Cool, thanks for sharing!

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    • The Gonzo Gourmet says

      February 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM

      You’re welcome – feel free to share your favorite apps, too!

      Reply
  3. Steve Murch says

    February 15, 2012 at 10:05 AM

    You might also want to take a look at BigOven, which offers easy recipe importing by URL, recipe importing by photo (called RecipeScan), menu planning, grocery list creation, resizing, and apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows Phone.

    More information and a demo video at http://www.bigoven.com.

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    • The Gonzo Gourmet says

      February 16, 2012 at 5:15 PM

      Steve, thanks for stopping by and sharing yet another fabulous app – I’m curious to try out the picture taking feature.

      Reply
  4. Sanjana Redy says

    November 27, 2013 at 1:56 AM

    Nice post and i love food apps. I’m searching in play store and explore the app. Thanks for sharing.
    FoodsNearMe

    Reply
  5. Beverly says

    February 9, 2014 at 11:29 PM

    I can’t figure out how to put recipes on pepperplate from a website. Any help?

    Reply

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  1. Easy Stove-Top Mac & Cheese | Whisk & Cleaver says:
    May 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM

    […] Elbow macaroni proved easier to find than shells, although I’ve got shells on my permanent Pepperplate shopping list as that’s what Little GG expects to see in her mac and cheese. We’re a family of […]

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