Dork Chow

I just found a new food social network called keyingredient.com. It’s way Web 2.0. One thing I like about it is it doesn’t scream “ads, ads, ads!” in your face. Another cool thing is the way you can widgetize recipes and share them around. The recipe card widget lets you have three tabs:

• a description tag in which you can embed a photo
• the recipe itself
• the about tab which is a link back to your profile on keyingredient

I was looking around for a vegetarian recipe with an accompanying photo, but none of the veggie recipes I found over there had a photo so this sample will have to do. (This is not my recipe). Notice that the example doesn’t have a description tab. It looks like this community is very new and they don’t have a huge number of members yet. If you’d like to join click http://www.keyingredient.com/signup/ This is not an affiliate link; I don’t get anything if you join. I just know that the food bloggers I know like to take pictures of our food and I think the recipes are infinitely better with photos and I love it when people make good use of screen real estate. Next original recipe I do I’ll put it in over there and bring it back in as a widget on Dork Chow. And it will have a photo. I think it would also have a graphic in the top strip if someone other than “anonymous” had entered this recipe.

Technical note: I tweaked the background color to make it match my background.

See Vegetarian Chili (Low-Fat Recipe) on Key Ingredient.

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