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A lot of recipe sites have a search by ingredients feature. Usually, you enter the ingredients one by one and you get a list of recipes that uses the ingredients given on the list. It turns out you could do the same thing on our recipe search tool. You just enter all the ingredients in the search box, press the search button and presto! You get a list of recipes matching your ingredient list.

For example, you have a craving for anything with chocolate and coffee. Just type “chocolate coffee” on the search box, click the button and you get your chocolates and coffee recipe fix (note: clicking on search term link takes you to the results page). Or maybe you could try a search on the uncommon combination of “strawberry and coffee“. A search for “pineapple grapefruit orange” also gives a nice bunch of recipes.

Note that we didn’t modify the recipe search tool. It still works as described in this blog post. This post just aims to inform you of a neat trick you might have missed the first time around. We’re really glad we made the decision to use the Google custom search engine tool. It gives us really good search abilities for free. By the way, all this works with our Firefox search plugin too.

So go ahead, try it out and tell us what you think.

We are happy to announce the availability of the Firefox 2 Recipe plugin for our Food Lava Recipe Search. To install the plugin simply go to http://foodlava.com/search/ and
click the installation link at the bottom. Installing the plugin will add a new search engine to the Firefox 2 search box.

This search engine will help you find the best recipes from the most popular recipe sites on the web. Recipes from allrecipes, epicurious, recipezaar, yahoo food, and many more are included. We are also continuously adding more sites to further enhance the search results. Try it and you will be amazed with the number and the quality of recipes you will get from your searches.

The feedback for our search service has been all positive. People are telling us that they like the fact that they getting a lot of relevant results on their searches (several pages worth).

However the uptake is a little slower than we expected. We hope that this search plugin would help. We also hope you would take the time to spread the word to your friends and families. We really think they would like this. Some promotion in social news and bookmarking sites would also be appreciated.

Today we officially announce the Food Lava Recipe Search Engine. Its a simple tool you can use to find the best recipes on the web. The screenshot below shows how simple it really is. It has a box where you type the recipe you are looking for (say roast salmon) and a button to submit your search.

It’s as simple as Google. In fact, it’s powered by Google’s custom search engine technology. So why use this instead of the vanilla Google site? The main reason is with this tool you only get recipe pages. It excludes non-recipe sites.

When you do a search on Google’s main site for say “cheese”, the results will most likely include informative sites like the Wikipedia entry for cheese and maybe a website for some cheese club. That’s cool, but what if you just want cheese recipes? The results from the Food Lava Recipe Search gives you just that.

Try it! Just head on over to http://foodlava.com/search/ and use it to find the best devil’s food cake recipe on the web. We think you’ll like the results so much that you’ll bookmark our search tool for future use. Tell us what you think of it by leaving a comment below.