suggestions?

[SteveinMN]

shouldn't you consider posting some of the websites you have found good, then?

I don't have very many sites I frequent; my approach is more "Oh, this looks interesting!" Often I'm looking for a particular cuisine or ingredient or cooking method.

I do tend to avoid sites like allrecipes.com and cooks.com (to me, the electronic equivalent of digging a specific recipe out of a shoebox full of them). Sites I've found useful include A Year of Slow Cooking, SparkPeople's SparkRecipes, and Taste of Home.

[iris lilies]

This may or may not help the OP, but it would be interesting to see what inspires people to go online to find recipes.

my inspiration is almost always having had a dish to eat, usually at a potluck or restaurant, and then I go online to find it.

i use cookbooks to flip through, just looking for inspiration. There are thousands of them at the library.

I own one Indian cookbook for the inspired photos, but I am already annoyed with it for the writing style, or methodology style. There is a lot of "make this and set aside" and then the next step is "make this and set aside" etc for all to come together at a later time. After having a Chicken Korba lesson at adult Ed class, I see that the style of my Indian Cookbook is very choppy.

i guess that if I ate a lot of beans like the OP's son likely does, I personally would find a bean website or cookbook useful for ideas. I actually have taken a cooking class about beans where we prepared several bean dishes, some vegan.

[Dhiana]

Google is my recipe book.

Just type in the ingredients you have on hand and "recipe" and lots of choices will pop up!

[rodeosweetheart]

I am a big fan of All Recipes.
But I am always buying cookbooks that I see at library sales--I love the ones that give you "Aspen's Best Restaurants" and things like that. I am also a huge fan of the old Silver Palate cookbooks and my favorite cookbook is called "Out of Vermont's Kitchens" put together by St. Paul's church.

You can usually find vegetarian recipes in there, or modify accordingly. I like the old ones because they usually emphasize frugality and seasonal cooking.

[freshstart]

thanks!