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Love to cook? Want to try a new cuisine? No cook book budget? Check out free recipes online!

Cooking is a popular pastime for millions of men and women. We all need to eat anyway, but cooking is so enjoyable for the foodies, that cooking might also be classified as a hobby. Avid cooks are also typically enthusiastic cook book collectors, ever in search of something new for their menus.

However, inevitably, the book shelves are bulging and the book budget is not quite so fat! You may go to an Indian restaurant and fall in love with this fragrant cuisine, wishing you could recreate some of these dishes at home. Maybe it's Moroccan food or Russian dishes that catch your fancy. How about Szechuan? Each of these are complex and unfamiliar cuisines, employing ingredients and specific techniques you've never explored. You may be hesitant to run out and buy a book in order to recreate a single dish, hoping for the best. If this is your quandary, it's time to take a look at the free recipes online!

Here's a brand new hobby for you to take up with gusto and at no cost. There are thousands of recipe websites, all of which offer free recipes online. If you have the name of a specific dish, you can find a recipe, with detailed instructions on how to prepare it, online. A cook's dream come true! Let's say you tasted Dolmas at your local Greek restaurant and simply must know how to make it yourself. Dolmas is a lamb and rice dish, wrapped in grape leaves. Properly prepared and seasoned, it's something to write home about ... but do you have a Greek cook book? Perhaps not. Where do you buy grape leaves? What are the ingredients that give this dish its unmistakable, but elusive fragrance and unique taste?

Tracking down such a recipe used to require a trip to the library, a perusal of their Greek cook books and then determining where to buy the various unfamiliar ingredients. If your library is not large, you might have to locate a Greek cook book from a neighboring library and perhaps wait a couple of weeks to get it and then hope it contained a recipe for Dolmas! This is no longer necessary with all of the websites offering free recipes online. You can track down any number of variations of the desired recipe in a half hour and a few clicks!

What's more, if your chosen recipe leaves a few blanks unfilled as to techniques and resources of exotic ingredients, you can find dozens of cooking magazines with articles that supply the missing information.

With the bonanza of free recipes online, you can find everything you need to know to confidently tackle the most obscure recipes, learn the techniques used in preparing any dish, from any cuisine around the globe. Once you gain familiarity with the Greek way of cooking, a whole new world of tastes opens up to you and your appreciative friends and family! Not to mention the personal satisfaction and excitement at learning something new about your favorite avocation ... all due to finding those free recipes online. Then, you're ready to knowledgeably buy a treasured new Greek cook book! Bon Appetit!