James Little @ NZfusion.com

I think there are a lot of websites out there that help people find recipes.

My idea is a website that allows users to add recipes and tag recipes using some simple rules. Things that I could see somebody like me searching for are:

• Recipes with only 3 or 4 ingredients
• Recipes from various regions
• Recipes to impress a date
• Recipes to impress your partner - might be different!
• Recipes for less than $1, $2, $5, $10 per person
• Recipes that I can create that contain “something I like” ingredient
• Recipes that only contain this, this and… this
• Recipes that contain foods commonly available in “the region I am in”
• Recipes that contain ingredients all available at the local supermarket
• Recipes that I can serve for dinner and take less than 30minutes for somebody not Jamie Oliver and Co to make
• Recipes that are good for you but taste like they are bad for you

I’d also like to be able to request recipes… like when you go to a restaurant and you have something that you like, you could, given a large enough user base, request the recipe and ingredients. Of course, you may not be as good at making it as the chef - but you wouldn’t be a real developer if you didn’t try and build it yourself every now and again.

There are lots of things that could be added to a website to make it useful these days, and community centric stuff is becoming more available, especially with social network frameworks like Facebook to piggy back on. And Mashup tools like Popfly and Pipes.