Hi! I’m Yeti Jason, and I’m the founder of Rediscovering Recipes.
Every recipe here starts from vintage cookbooks and are updated for today’s palate with healthier ingredients, refined techniques, and written so that inexperienced cooks can make a restaurant quality meal that is healthy for their families to enjoy or date nights with someone special.
As I was building this site, I started thinking about all the challenges and frustration I encountered when I was learning to cook that ultimately led to discouragement.
I went to my local FB Marketplace and found people offering stacks of the best cookbooks. Then, I scoured the local library and bookstore quarterly sales. Most of these gems I got for less than a buck each. It is from a discovery of natural hidden culinary talent shaped by these cookbooks that this site was born.
My Cookbook Collection
Therefore, I made this site on three founding pillars:
First, I want to make sure the cooking techniques are easy to learn and called out clearly. I’ve seen many recipes where authors, for example, throws shredded cheese into a white sauce and presents it like they invented the best mac & cheese, when actually they just transformed a mother sauce into a Mornay sauce. Another fail I’ve seen is authors leaving out critical steps of a proper technique to get their recipe under thirty minutes. Once you learn the proper skills, methods, and techniques, you will notice your culinary prowess elevate as you create delicious food.
Second, I want to reduce the dependence on processed ingredients born out of convenience. You see these trending in grocery stores and meal kits, commercial spice blends, and sauces in a jar. Because they are highly processed, there is little nutritional value, less natural flavor, a lot more sodium, and not to mention how much more you are paying over the raw ingredients. Having the individual spices and raw ingredients adds so much versatility to your pantry, and most of the time, it only takes a few extra minutes for proper prep.
Third, I want the recipes you make from here to be “guaranteed delicious” the first time. I can’t tell you how many “five star” online recipes I have tried that just didn’t taste good. When I go back to try to figure out what I did wrong, the comments are talking all about how they substituted and changed out the entire recipe! How did these get five stars in the first place? In my opinion, this is from the cooking blog explosion during the pandemic, where food creators shifted towards low-quality, high-quantity recipes that they haven’t even created or tasted before, just to rank higher and compete for relevancy. I. Will. Do. Better.