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Heidi Swanson

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Heidi Swanson writes 101 Cookbooks, a personal blog at 101cookbooks.com about culture and health. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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2010–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Heidi Swanson's recipe blog for cooking ideas, such as a savory oat porridge and pantry-based substitutions. One commenter suggests it as a source for dinner recipes.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

101 Cookbooks is a food blog focused on healthy recipes for everyday. It features over 700 vegetarian recipes, whole foods recipes, and vegan recipes, plus the occasional sweet treat. It is written by New York Times best selling author Heidi Swanson.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Great find! Similar in style to http://101cookbooks.com/ They both encourage you to work with what you already have in your pantry, making substitutions when necessary.

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    on “5 Ingredients/10 Minutes cookbook - great recipes for a busy hacker [pdf]”
  2. Submitted Homemade Pasta as a story · 2 points

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  3. This looks like an interesting way to have oats in a savory way - http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/miso-oat-porridge-recip...

    Comment linking /archives/miso-oat-porridge-recipe.html

    on “Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t”
  4. robinwarren · 2011-03-04Recommends
    adblock and http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ works for me. a handful of blogs from the cooking forlder of my google reader: http://justcookit.blogspot.com/ http://www.toomanychefs.com/ http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/ http://www.101cookbooks.com/ also I'd be a fool not to mention my own site http://thecookofbob.blogspot.com/ Mine's not crap-laden with ads, but it's not really crap laden with much tbh.

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    on “Anyone have any sites with nice dinner recipes?”

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