Wedding Cake by playbeasy

The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton is fast coming up, and the whole world is watching the events unfold. On the 29th of April, what might very well be the wedding of the century will be held at Westminster Abbey. From the service to the procession – everyone wants to know everything that will be going on. Every little detail needs to be divulged to satisfy the world’s curiosity!

Here’s some recipes for wedding cakes you can make.

A rough time frame has been included to help it easier to plan and prepare, just to help the special night or day go without a hitch!

Starter
Starting with a true classic starter – Smoked Salmon Pate. A smooth, creamy dish, with plenty of flavour and a treat for the eyes. A simple dish, but widely loved – and quite quick to make at just forty minutes including time to chill!

If you’re not a fan of Fish Pate for a starter, try creating the Walnut, Egg and Cheese Pate. A different taste, so it may be worth preparing some before the big day, and making sure you like it. This pate can also be used as a filling for Stuffed Tomatoes, Peppers or Mushrooms as well! Including time taken to chill, you’re looking at about forty-five to fifty minutes.

Main Course
A true classic dish – Crispy Pork Belly. Although this meal is a Filipino dish, the range of flavours in it give the traditionally popular dinner a great twist. Serve it with some freshly cooked seasonal Vegetables – Roast Potatoes, Parsnips, Carrots and a lovely thick Gravy.

This dish takes around one and a half to two hours to cook – not counting the time used to freeze the meat.

Dessert
White Chocolate Pots – A simply divine White Chocolate and Rum Mousse, this dessert can alternatively be served with Orange Zest or Dark Chocolate to mix the flavours up.

This dish takes around three or four hours to prepare, once the time to chill has been counted!

The internet is large though and often it is difficult to find decent recipes, especially high quality recipes. Blogs such as ours can sadly only cover that many recipes every day and even us recipe writers occasionally need to crawl the internet for inspiration and then try out different recipes before we settle on one, which we might slightly tweak before we report it back to you.

Luckily finding cooking recipes seems to become easier as the internet matures and now there’s a new semantic search engine for food lovers in town: Recipe Finder.

One of the interest details about Recipe Finder is its ability to search and sort recipes with an advanced set of filters, such as servings, preparation time and soon also by calories.

Other great features are the inclusion of found images and the highlighted commentary for indexed search results as can be found in the screengrabs below.

As you can see in the screengrabs, which I made on my iPad, the search results display perfectly on the iPad -both in portrait and landscape view- thus making Recipe Finder the ultimate mobile companion in the kitchen. An iPad application is also in the works.

Sometimes though, rather than looking for a specific recipe, you might want to look for inspiration and let images do the work. RF provides an awesome search by images, focusing only on images and cutting out all possible clutter from the search results. Short recipe descriptions are shown upon hover, together with the option to quickview the recipe inline.

Recipe Finder has been built from scratch by IOIX, one of the leading Japanese online marketers. The team consisting of contributors from Japan, Ukraine, The Philippines have built the custom ASM search engine, which allows to easily develop semantic search verticals completely with in-house code.

Check it out and remember… whenever you need to look for a recipe, there’s always Recipe Finder!

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You know that Halloween’s just around the corner when recipes for pumpkin-infused foods start showing up everywhere. Well, bFeedMe is no exception- here are some delicious links to some of my favorite pumpkin recipes online. Naturally, I have a lot of Halloween-themed recipes in store for you, so think of this as the first taste:

1. Pumpkin Bread from Half Assed Kitchen, made with a bit of molasses, and a bunch of spices. Mmm.