This is the best website in the world for recipes!! Most of its 16,000 recipes come straight from the culinary experts at Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines, and they cover the gamut—from crockpot dinners to upper-crust meals like short ribs Provençale (with crème fraîche mashed potatoes). You can save a recipe to your personal Recipe Box on the site, or read reviews from fellow site visitors. The restaurant guide covers more than 50 cities, and the site's correspondents abroad take you on culinary adventures as they find the freshest fruit sorbets in Paris, for example, or enroll in a pig-butchering workshop in Umbria. (via Rose Poirier)

this web page is very useful for working to find easy recipes in the middle of the week when you have no idea of ''WHAT FOR DINNER MOM?

I would like to see recipes before I can tell you what I think

The recipe collection has a good search engine allowing you to find something to make with the half and half, the mustard and the green beans that are in your refrigerator, or figure out a meal for your vegan friend who is allergic to nuts, or make a brisket as good as your Aunt Betty used to.

There are a few sites that also do this, but the value added part of Epicurious is the reviews of the people who have tried the recipes. Have you tried a recipe from a magazine and had it come out too watery, or too spicy, or just bland? The reviewers will tell you to add 6 cups of water, not 8, one chili, not two and to drop in a teaspoon of cumin and some mushrooms.

If you register, you can keep a "recipe box" and collect recipes that sound good, or ones you've tried and want to make again.

The site also has forums for discussing restaurants, wine and so on, as well as feature articles from Conde Nast food magazines, and a pretty good food dictionary so you can figure out what the heck your snotty friend meant by Maldon salt, but I keep coming back for the recipe files.