Archive for April, 2007

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.

Eggplants are such versatile vegetables. Though it may not be the one of the most nutritious vegetables, it lends itself well to recipes from either east or west. In the recipe below, it is combined with a creamy sauce.

• 1 lb large eggplants
• 1/2 cup tomatoes
• 2 tbsp spring onions or green onions
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• salt and pepper

• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup grated cheese
• 1/2 cup all-purpose cream

1. Saute onions in oil. Add tomatoes and cook until its liquid is released. Add eggplant. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until eggplant is slightly tender.
2. For the sauce, combine the last 4 ingredients in a bowl. Mix until smooth.
3. Arrange the sauted mixture in a wide buttered pan or pyrex dish and pour the sauce over it.
4. Bake for 20 minutes, or until eggplant pieces are soft

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.