there's an app for that

my phone died out on me last week after two good years and a slow decline over the past few months. My wonderful Deputy Handsome let me upgrade to an Android-powered fancy phone and I've had the best time finding new apps to play with. After the completely addicting Words With Friends, I think the app that will see the second-most use is epicurious!
This is terrific for ideas for using up leftover odds and ends from other recipes. Make selections from one or all of the following categories:

• main ingredient
• meal/course
• cuisine
• dietary consideration
• dish type
• season or occasion

and a ticker at the bottom tells you how many recipes there are that meet your criteria. You can also enter keywords to narrow your search to a specific type of food. For example, I have a half-used tub of ricotta in my fridge right now and I want to do something more interesting with it than a baked pasta dish so I entered "cheese" for the main ingredient, "breakfast" for the meal and "ricotta" for the keyword and got back 9 recipes to choose from. As a result, I'll be making citrus-ricotta pancakes and also a Mediterranean veggie tart this week!

(of course you can always visit epicurious.com and take advantage of the same recipe matching technology from your computer too, but I really get a kick out the touch-screen.)