Recipes

We aren’t your average recipe site. Cook's Compass emphasizes recipes that are novel, exotic, archaic, or otherwise different – and we help you find what you need to make them. Our recipes will get you out into your community to find unique ingredients, or just the best of what’s available locally.

Search our recipes - or add your own - and we’ll link your reviews of stores near you that have what you want. We understand that a recipe is only as good as the ingredients you make it with, so we hope you’ll contribute your own local knowledge about where to shop for the most interesting food near you.

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User's Picks

Overall Best

Marinated London Broil w/ Homemade Steak Sauce

Description: I'm always annoyed when recipes call for marinading the meat and then you simply discard the marina...

Best noodles

Singapore Noodles

Description: Spicy rice noodles with a curry sauce. You can swap the shrimp for meat, tofu or other veggies....

Best cake

Bizcocho Dominicano (Dominican Cake)

Description: Every wedding I ever went to as a kid had a Dominican Cake as its centerpiece and I took for grante...

Best baked

Pillowy Oatmeal Cookies

Description: An incredible oatmeal cookie with a subtle sweetness brought by the combination of dried cranberrie...

Best Latin

Sofrito

Description: Sofrito serves as the foundation of a lot of latin dishes. This is a simple recipe for it....

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