Epicurious, for the past few years, has been my go-to site for recipes. If that does work, I’ll hit up foodtv and then Google. I also leaf through my Joy of Cooking for ideas every so often, and I’ll go there first if I’m looking for a really basic recipe.

My method for recipes is usually to find base recipes for what I’m making and then work around that based on what I’m looking for and what I have in the kitchen. For example, when I was learning to make risotto, I read a bunch of recipes and settled on the basic proportions, and I made a plain risotto a couple times to figure it out. Now, I basically use that recipe and tweak it everytime i make the dish. When I want variations, I’ll just make changes to the recipe based on what’s in my kitchen, or I check Epicurious for ideas, but I usually just end up incorporating them into my own recipe instead of using the one on the site. I try to do that for most everything I cook because I’m more likely to get good results with recipes I know, and it just makes life easy for me.