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Cooking & Entertaining
ABC's of Entertaining - Everything you always wanted to know about entertaining, from your About.com Guide
AskMe.com -- Cooking - Get detailed answers to your questions from real people - for free! Use the experts at askme.com to find out exactly what you want to know.
Better Homes & Gardens Cooking/Recipes - Better Homes and Gardens Online serves up time-honored recipes and cooking tips.
Butterball.com - For more than forty-five years, Butterball has been America's #1 selling brand of turkey, offering consistently great tasting turkey that our customers tell us is the juiciest, most tender, and the best value. You'll find receipes and preparation tips too!
Cooking Measures and Conversion Calculator - Find a delicious international recipe? Or, do you just want to see how many kilograms you weigh? The cooking calculator can convert feet to meters, pounds to grams, gallons to liters, and Fahrenheit to centigrade. Includes a chart to help decipher British food terms.
Fine Cooking Online - The magazine for people who love to cook, written by the most exciting and skilled chefs in the country. They focus right in on cooking techniques and ingredients.
HomeArts Food - Who doesn't like food? When you think about food, do you think about what is on the plate or how it got there? This site puts together information about food, collected from Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Country Living, and other great sources of food news. There are tons of hints on cooking and food preparation for you to explore.
Martha Stewart Living: Cooking & Entertaining - Answers and inspiration for cooking and entertaining--bulletin boards, live discussions, question and answer hours, etc.
Oster: Kitchen Appliances, Party Planning, and Entertaining Tips - Small kitchen appliance information, blenders, gourmet cooking ideas,recipes, party planning, home entertaining. Expert advice on occasions, theme parties, holidays, decorating, cocktails, and menus.
Diet & Nutrition
CSPI Kid Stuff - CHOW Club! - How's the food in your school cafeteria? It might be OK, but this site offers suggestions for improving its overall nutrition score. There's also a list of the ten best and worst things you're probably eating (example: French fries = bad; air-popped popcorn = good). Top it off with a selection of great recipes (like English muffin pizzas), and you have one delicious Web site!
Dairy Council of Wisconsin Nutrition Activities - This is a great site to get "blackline masters" to hand around in class. You'll find material on the site's Food Pyramid, Lunch in Any Language, Breakfast Around the World, and Nutritious Nibbles sections. There are also some very tasty links to other nutrition sites on the Net.
Dole 5 A Day: Just For Kids - This site invites kids to learn about the importance of eating five fruits and vegetables every day. Hosted by 42 entertaining fruit and vegetable characters from the Land of 5 A Day, this site is educational fun for children of all ages. New material is added each month, including puzzles, games and nutrition adventures.
Healthy Choices for Kids Online - Produced by the growers of Washington state apples, this site offers stories, plays, and lesson plans about the food groups. You'll learn about choosing healthy snacks plus find lots of tips for healthy eating. There are also lesson plans and activities to promote good nutrition.
Kids Food Cyberclub - You already know your body needs food to keep you healthy, but do you have a good idea about which foods are best for you? Take the nutrition quiz, and then see if you can put the food pyramid together. Remember: junk food is not a food group!
Nutrition Cafe - Try the Grab a Grape game to see how you'll do playing nutrition Jeopardy. Then try to pick a good breakfast, lunch, or dinner in the Have-a-Bite Cafe. This site is a joint project of the Pacific Science Center and the Washington State Dairy Council.
Nutrition Expedition - Go on three different expeditions to solve nutritional mysteries! You'll have to visit several places around the Internet before your journey's end, but if you complete all three, you'll know a lot about calcium, vegetarianism, and how to choose the healthiest meal at a fast-food restaurant.
Nutrition on the Web - Written by teens for other teens, this site won an award in the ThinkQuest competition. The site is in Spanish, German, and English. It has two parts: the Informative section and the Interactive section. In the first part, you'll read some nutrition horror stories, find out what makes up a good diet, and explore some myths. For example, some kids believe that eating a vegetarian diet is always more healthy. The fact is that "vegetarian diets, which contain absolutely no animal products, are very low in vitamin B12 and, unless carefully planned, may be deficient in vitamin B6, riboflavin, calcium, iron, and zinc. Strict macrobiotic diets, which include everything except grains, are extremely hazardous. More moderate vegetarian diets that include milk and eggs and perhaps fish, and/or poultry, meet the nutritional needs of growing teenagers if carefully planned. This is why many adolescents that are vegetarians are also anemic." The interactive section of this resource asks you to input your weight, height, and age, and it will tell you how many calories you need to eat per day to maintain your weight. There's also a diet planner, a nutrition database, and more. Some things require an account (free!), but you don't have to give your real name.
WebMD-Health Has a Homepage - Healtheon/WebMD is the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company connecting physicians and consumers to each other and to the entire healthcare community.
Welcome to the Vita-Men! - There are 13 vitamins, and they are the superheroes of your body. They help you stay healthy and help support many basic body functions. Check out the Vita-Men (and women) online trading cards to learn about each of them and how they help you. Remember, they are the Vita-Men and they're OK.
Food
10 Tips to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity - There are lots of ways you can get fit without putting in hundreds of miles on your family's treadmill. How about taking a hike once a week with a group of friends? You can climb stairs instead of taking an elevator or an escalator. And you can encourage Mom to park a little farther from the mall so that you both get in some good walking. Check for more tips here.
Baby Beech-Nut - Beech-Nut® has been feeding babies like yours since 1931. They consider it a special privilege, a trust. So from the beginning, they've been an industry innovator. In fact, they were the first to put baby food in glass jars, when everyone else was using lead-soldered metal cans.
Busy Cooks - THE starting place for exploring topics of interest to Busy Cooks, from your About.com Guide. You'll find Bread Machine recipes, Appetizers, Crockpot Cooking and alot of other ideas and recipe sites.
Canadian Egg Marketing Agency - We could say this page is eggciting. We could say it's eggzactly what you're looking for. We don't think that would be an eggzaggeration. Here's an eggzample of what you'll find: egg nutrition, egg recipes, information on egg farming, grading eggs, and lots of eggtivities. We eggspect you'll have fun here!
Cheese/Appetizers - Home Page - The place for exploring Cheese/Appetizers, from your About.com Guide! You will find tons of recipes for appetizers and finger foods.
CheeseNet - You can slice it, grate it, melt it, and of course, you can eat it. What's your favorite way to eat cheese? How is cheese made? Read about the cheese-making process, or tour the cheese picture gallery. Read about the differences among cheeses around the world. If you have questions, you can send them to "cheeseologist Dr. Emory K. Cheese" in the Ask Dr. Cheese section. You might be amused by the cheese poetry--then again, maybe not.
Chinesefood.org:The Ultimate Chinese Food Site - The ultimate Chinese cooking site. Cooking methods and utensils, popular recipes, chopsticks, dim sum, and a list of Chinese restaurants in New York City! Learning Chinese cooking isn't too difficult. Let's start today!
Chiquita Banana - We're here to say that bananas may be the world's most perfect food. Loaded with vitamin B6, they are also a good source of vitamin C, potassium, and dietary fiber. At this kicked-up site you'll meet Chiquita Banana herself and find out what all the singing is about! (You can find the lyrics to the famous song here, too.)
Epicurious: Valentine's Day - Whipping up a romantic Valentine's meal for that someone special? Want to send some chocolates to a Valentine, but can't get to the post office before Februrary 14? Then you'll fall in love all over again with these collections of recipes, menus and virtual sweets all made for sheer romance.
Food News Daily - Daily news about food, recipes, health, food safety, nutrition and fine cuisine from internet news sources, with regular updates.
Food and Fitness - This wonderful site is part of Kids Health, one of Net-mom's favorites. Sure, you'll find recipes here, but you'll also discover what vitamins and minerals do, how to eat to play your best at sports, and why water is the beverage of choice when it comes to quenching your thirst.
Foodfit.com - Healthy eating and cooking, great recipes and fitness advice - all at your fingertips. Use our interactive tools to measure your nutrition strengths, plan meals or see how many calories you burn walking to work.
Healthy Choices for Kids Online - Produced by the growers of Washington state apples, this site offers stories, plays, and lesson plans about the food groups. You'll learn about choosing healthy snacks plus find lots of tips for healthy eating. There are also lesson plans and activities to promote good nutrition.
Healthy Gourmet-AMA Family Health Cookbook - This site features recipes that are intended to help you make healthy choices for your menu. A healthy diet is essential to provide the nutrients your body needs for energy and growth and to help prevent disease.
HomeArts Food - Who doesn't like food? When you think about food, do you think about what is on the plate or how it got there? This site puts together information about food, collected from Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Country Living, and other great sources of food news. There are tons of hints on cooking and food preparation for you to explore.
Kids Food Cyberclub - You already know your body needs food to keep you healthy, but do you have a good idea about which foods are best for you? Take the nutrition quiz, and then see if you can put the food pyramid together. Remember: junk food is not a food group!
Mann's Broccoli Table of Contents - From seed to your dinner plate, follow the virtual path of broccoli, the healthy dark green vegetable. In the Kid's Club you can play some neat games (none involving broccoli, crown jewel of nutrition), but you'll have to visit the Mann's Farm section to learn that broccoli has as much calcium per ounce as milk. You can also get some vegetable clip art and recipes at this leafy green site.
Milk - It's on Everybody's Lips! - Who should be the next celebrity pictured with a milk mustache? How many milk facts do you know? Head into the Taste Buds department to find the recipe for a Chocolate-Peanut Shake and lots more.
Morten's Recipe Collection - Mortens Recipe Collection is a still growing number of danish and foreign recipes in electronic form. All recipes are in the same conceiveable format ready for printing. You can add your own recipes or download the collection for private use.
Nabisco: America's Favorite Food Company! - Are you a twister or a dunker? Any way you eat Oreos, they are America's favorite sandwich cookie treat. Discover the stories behind how your favorite snacks came to be--like Fig Newtons, Barnum's Animal Crackers, and Chips Ahoy cookies. Nabisco also offers a section for healthy living, cooking tips, and recipes, and they challenge you to lots of fun games. You may have to check the directory site map for the locations of these items.
Nutrition Cafe - Try the Grab a Grape game to see how you'll do playing nutrition Jeopardy. Then try to pick a good breakfast, lunch, or dinner in the Have-a-Bite Cafe. This site is a joint project of the Pacific Science Center and the Washington State Dairy Council.
Nutrition on the Web - Written by teens for other teens, this site won an award in the ThinkQuest competition. The site is in Spanish, German, and English. It has two parts: the Informative section and the Interactive section. In the first part, you'll read some nutrition horror stories, find out what makes up a good diet, and explore some myths. For example, some kids believe that eating a vegetarian diet is always more healthy. The fact is that "vegetarian diets, which contain absolutely no animal products, are very low in vitamin B12 and, unless carefully planned, may be deficient in vitamin B6, riboflavin, calcium, iron, and zinc. Strict macrobiotic diets, which include everything except grains, are extremely hazardous. More moderate vegetarian diets that include milk and eggs and perhaps fish, and/or poultry, meet the nutritional needs of growing teenagers if carefully planned. This is why many adolescents that are vegetarians are also anemic." The interactive section of this resource asks you to input your weight, height, and age, and it will tell you how many calories you need to eat per day to maintain your weight. There's also a diet planner, a nutrition database, and more. Some things require an account (free!), but you don't have to give your real name.
Oscar Mayer Virtual Lunchbox: Home - If you wish you were an Oscar Mayer wiener, you'll want to spend a lot of time at this site. There are the usual recipes, contests, and company jabbering, but what caught our eye was the interactive History of the Wienermobile. With or without Real Audio, it's hot! The first hot dog on wheels toured the streets of Chicago in 1936. It was only 13 feet long. By the 1950s, the Wienermobile had grown to 22 feet. It had a sound system and a sunroof. By 1958, though, it finally got what it had been lacking all these years. No, it wasn't mustard--it was a bun! Six "Wienebagos" were touring the world by 1988, with the comforts of onboard microwave ovens and other conveniences. In 1995, the latest model is 27 feet long and 10 feet high. We cannot do any better than to quote from the home page: "The model underwent tests in the wind tunnel at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and could really, theoretically speaking, haul buns as it reached speeds in excess of 90 miles per hour." Hot dog!
Peanut Butter Lovers Club - Did you know that about one-third of the U.S. peanut crop goes toward making that famous American staple: peanut butter? Runner peanuts, grown primarily in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, are the preferred type to use. This is because they are uniform in size and it's easier to get them all evenly roasted. At this site you can find out how peanut butter is made, discover how nutritious peanut butter is, and play a fun trivia game.
Produce Oasis - Don't be like Jerry Seinfeld and roll the melons down the supermarket aisle to see if they are ripe! You can get the inside scoop on selecting all kinds of fruit, vegetables, and specialty produce right here. You'll also find nutritional information for these products as well as recipes and fun facts. For example, according to this page, "Carrots spread westward, introduced into England from Holland in the fifteenth century. At that point, carrots were coveted for their tops, and no well-dressed English gentlewoman would be seen without lacy carrot leaves decorating her hair."
Rolling Your Own Sushi - Do you know how to eat with chopsticks? If not, don't worry--sushi is a wonderful finger food. Sushi is a Japanese delicacy that is fun and relatively easy to make. A common misunderstanding about sushi is that it is raw seafood. There is a form of sushi called sashimi, which does have raw seafood, but this is different from sushi. Sushi is delicious and it's good for you. Warning: Making sushi involves the use of a sharp knife; be sure to let your parents help you prepare your sushi.
The Dinner Co-op Home Page: For Cooks and Food-Lovers - What's Dad making for dinner? The next time he has no idea, help him try the links on this page. For one thing, there are recipes--LOTS of recipes! We haven't checked all the links, but this site certainly has some interesting stuff. For example, can the color of food suppress your appetite? Have you ever noticed that besides blueberries, no blue food exists in nature? Our brains are just not keyed into seeing a blue thing as a food source. If you want to eat less, put a blue light in your dining room or eat from a blue plate.
The Popcorn Board - There's more to popcorn than movie theaters! It's believed the first use of wild corn was for popping. Although it probably originated in what is now Mexico, it was grown in China, Sumatra, and India long before Columbus arrived in the New World. At this site you can get more popcorn history as well as popping tips (there's a way to save the kernels that don't pop). Don't miss the arts and crafts suggestions or the games, either.
The Story of Milk - Cows make milk to feed their baby calves. But after the baby is eating other food, the cow continues to make up to eight gallons of milk a day! Cows are milked in a special room called a milking parlor, and their milk is pumped to stainless steel holding tanks and immediately chilled to 38 degrees. It waits until the milk tanker truck comes to pick it up. This happens twice a day. When it gets to the milk processing facility, the milk goes through two other steps, homogenization and pasteurization, but you'll have to read about those at this Web site. The main level has cow-related games and other fun.
Veggie Kids - Sometimes kids don't like the same tastes their older brothers and sisters do. Here are some kid-approved vegetarian meals that you might ask your parents to try. There's a lentil dish with alphabet pasta, "corny" mini-muffins, and a special party "Hummm!us" dip made out of peanut butter! There are also tips for raising kids to love their veggies.
Washington Apples - The Best Apples on Earth - Granny Smith, Jonagold, Gala, Delicious--how many varieties of apple can you name? This site describes them all, as well as the best uses for each type. Did you know that the average American eats almost 20 pounds of apples per year? But that's nothing. Residents of some European countries each eat more than 45 pounds annually!
Recipes
Meals For You - Thousands of delicious recipes. Complete nutritional information. Instantly custom-build your own meal plans.
zedtee.com - Zedtee.com is the home of English cookery. It contains a large selection of recipes as well as information on ingredients and related books.
1st Traveler's Choice Internet Cookbook - Features over 3,000 Recipes from Innkeepers, Restaurateurs, and Gourmet Food Specialists: Culinary Professionals share their Secrets with hundreds of recipes.
African Recipes - The Congo Cookbook - Over 50 traditional African recipes. Information about cooking and food in Africa. Illustrated with vintage scenes of African life.
All Recipes.com - The Recipe Network - The title pretty much says it all. This site tries to collect all recipes for baking, soups, chicken dishes, pasta, and holiday meals, and arrange them in such a way that you can visit the site and find just the right recipe for Cafeteria Macaroni and Cheese, or whatever comfort food you crave.
Anna's Online Kitchen - A collection of Anna's favorite recipes that are so tasty and so easy to prepare.
Baker Boulanger - Baker Boulanger is a recipe and advice site edited by professional baker and author Marcy Goldman. The site features hundreds of recipes for baked good and savory dishes.
Bed & Breakfast Inns Recipes Online - More than 1,000 bed and breakfast innkeeper cooking recipes and dozens of cookbooks.
Better Homes & Gardens Cooking/Recipes - Better Homes and Gardens Online serves up time-honored recipes and cooking tips.
Busy Cooks - THE starting place for exploring topics of interest to Busy Cooks, from your About.com Guide. You'll find Bread Machine recipes, Appetizers, Crockpot Cooking and alot of other ideas and recipe sites.
Butterball - Which do you prefer: light or dark meat? ("Hey!" says the turkey, "It's all the same meat to me!") Not only is turkey a very popular food during the holiday season, it's also a great meal any time of the year. ("Yeah, well so is vegetarian pizza!") Turkey is great, because after the first meal, the leftovers are good for a zillion sandwiches and a delicious soup. ("Ever heard of falafel, pita, and hummus?") At this page, you will find great stuffing recipes, gravy recipes, carving tips, and creative garnishing ideas. ("I'm outta here!")
CDKitchen.com - From homestyle to gourmet - 100,000 recipes online in the CDKitchen and rec.food.recipe collections. Copycat recipes, crockpot cooking, cookbooks and menus, party planning and entertainment guides, recipe search engine, cooking forum, links to other cooking, recipe, beverage related sites, tips, hints and more.
Cafe Creosote - A comprehensive cooking site with photographed recipes, cooking dictionary, farmers' markets index, and much more.
Cheese/Appetizers - Home Page - The place for exploring Cheese/Appetizers, from your About.com Guide! You will find tons of recipes for appetizers and finger foods.
ChinaVista's Recipe Corner - Many unusual Chinese recipes! Chinese culinary arts have a long history. They are famous all over the world. Chinese dishes appeal to the senses through colour, shape, aroma and taste.
Chopstix - Chinese cookery (cooking) and food: Recipes; star chef advice, equipment and ingredient information - chopsticks, cleaver and wok; cooking and preparation techniques - stir fry, steaming and deep fry!
Cookie Recipe.com - Cookie Recipes - What's your favorite kind of cookie? Chocolate chip? Sugar or sugar free? Peanut butter? Or do you prefer those luscious holiday cookies, or filled cookies, or no-bake cookies, or maybe some international recipes? The cookie of your dreams is here. Take a bite.
Cooking with Blondee - Kids - Check Blondee's easy pizza recipes, porcupine salad, and butter graham crackers. These nutritious snacks and finger foods are fun to make and delicious, too.
Cooking.com - This is a one-stop shopping place for those of you who enjoy cooking but are simply too busy to shop all over town for what you need. This easy-to-shop site also offers recipes, cooking tips and meal planners.
CopyKat Creations - If you can't get enough of trademarked foods, such as Cinnabon cinnamon rolls, or Red Lobster Cheese Biscuits, or even Girl Scout Thin Mints cookies--try using these copycat recipes. Fans say a lot of them are pretty close to the originals!
Culinary.com - Discover thousands of recipes and hundreds of culinary related links for you to browse through! Now featuring a guest rating system for all links!.Your Ultimate Source For Culinary Information!
EXPO Restaurant Le Cordon Bleu - Are you hankering for some French cooking? Do you want to try some recipes for true gourmet chefs? These recipes are for expert cooks, so don't ask your parents to help you whip up some Feuillet s de Saumon aux Asperges after they've just come home from a hard day at the office. These recipes are for special days when everyone is ready for a treat. The site includes recipes for seven special days of cooking. Imagine, a whole week of French food. Bon app tit !
Entree Recipes from Cuisine Magazine - Step-by-step illustrated recipes for entrees from Cuisine magazine. Our recipes are easy to follow and beautifully photographed every step of the way. We won't just tell you how to make these incredible entrees...we'll show you!
Epicurious - You still can't find that extra-special recipe for your doll's dinner party? The publishers of Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines give you recipes and a restaurant forum, and they share tips on how to make being in the kitchen a rewarding experience. Check the recipe file or search the forum to locate those hard-to-find holiday cookies. If you're looking for a recipe from another country, search here for some delicious meal suggestions. Click on Recipe, then choose Browse, and then Cuisine to select from 16 choices, including African, Caribbean, Greek, Indian, and others. You can even choose to find recipes that match what's in your pantry! And don't miss the kid-friendly recipes.
Epicurious: Valentine's Day - Whipping up a romantic Valentine's meal for that someone special? Want to send some chocolates to a Valentine, but can't get to the post office before Februrary 14? Then you'll fall in love all over again with these collections of recipes, menus and virtual sweets all made for sheer romance.
Food Network's FoodTV.Com - You can now get the recipes you see being created on FoodTV!! This is the Gateway to Recipes, Entertaining, Chefs, Cooking, Television and more!
Gabi's Kuche: G and S German Recipes - A collection of easy to prepare home-style German recipes translated and converted. Includes an interactive Tips Board for discussing the recipes and cooking in general.
Green Eggs and Ham: Recipes - Learn how to make three different versions of this traditional Dr. Seuss fan's breakfast. No, you don't have to go out and find green chickens first!
Hawaii's Favorite Recipes - Come tune into Aunty Leilani's Cooking Show and find recipes for tasty Hawaiian dishes. Check out the Internet Island Fruit Salad or the Pineapple Cream Cheese Pie. Although it is more fun to cook these recipes while wearing a traditional Hawaiian print shirt, a lei, sandals, and a straw hat, the results are just as good if you don't. Be sure to drop in and get your name in Hawaiian here, too.
Healthy Gourmet-AMA Family Health Cookbook - This site features recipes that are intended to help you make healthy choices for your menu. A healthy diet is essential to provide the nutrients your body needs for energy and growth and to help prevent disease.
Idea Box: Recipes - Visit this site to find over 30 easy recipes for kids and interested adults or anyone who is just learning to cook! You'll find recipes for holidays and regular days, breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. Some of the recipes include Chocolate Graduation Caps, Funny Faced Bagels, and Healthy Snowcones.
JAPANESE CULTURE - You'll find some delicious Japanese recipes that have been passed down through many generations.
Karen's Recipe Box - Karens Recipe Box full of recipes, hints, tips, stables,spices and anything you need to start cooking.
Kids Kitchen - Some of these recipes are described as messy, but great tasting. For example, there are bird's nests--made of melted chocolate, butterscotch chips, and chow mein noodles! There are Fresh Mudburgers too--not what you think--and other culinary delights guaranteed to make your tummy smile.
KidsHealth Kid's Recipes - KidsHealth is one of the best family sites on the Net, and their recipes page doesn't disappoint. Whether you're looking for a breakfast treat (pancakes, oatmeal) or a dinner delight (chili, macaroni and cheese), you'll find some great ideas here. Don't miss the snacks either, especially Ants on a Log and the Train and Trail Mix.
Kraft Interactive Kitchen - In the Kraft Kitchen, you'll find hundreds of recipes, cooking tips and techniques, and lots of other good food ideas. Great suggestions for entertaining. Fun activities for families.
Mama's Cookbook - Do you want to be a great cook? Mama's Italian cookbook is a great place to start. It has recipes for all your favorite Italian meals, plus cooking and pasta glossaries for beginners. If you're not sure which one you want, you can let Mama pick "one of her favorites." There is also a searchable database of recipes if you know what you want and don't want to hunt through the list to find it.
Mann's Broccoli Table of Contents - From seed to your dinner plate, follow the virtual path of broccoli, the healthy dark green vegetable. In the Kid's Club you can play some neat games (none involving broccoli, crown jewel of nutrition), but you'll have to visit the Mann's Farm section to learn that broccoli has as much calcium per ounce as milk. You can also get some vegetable clip art and recipes at this leafy green site.
Meals.com - Search from over 10,000 recipes--Plan tonights dinner, plan your weekly menu, create your own cookbook and create your shopping list
Mimi's Cyber-Kitchen Recipes - Free Recipes...Cooking Secrets...Mimi's Cyber-Kitchen...used by Chef's and Restaurants Worldwide.
Morten's Recipe Collection - Mortens Recipe Collection is a still growing number of danish and foreign recipes in electronic form. All recipes are in the same conceiveable format ready for printing. You can add your own recipes or download the collection for private use.
Mountain Breeze Home Canning - Recipes for canning and preserving.
Nancy's Kitchen - This is a nifty jumping-off spot for loads of special recipes for folks on low-fat, low-carbohydrate, diabetic, or other diets. There are also links to favorite recipes from state governors and U.S. Congress members, among other fascinating diversions.
National Pasta Association's I Love Pasta - I Love Pasta is the perfect place to head when you're just noodlin' around. Mom and Dad can choose from the more than 250 recipes developed in the National Pasta Association's Test Kitchen, while you might try the kids' menu of Turtle Shells or Cheesy Noodle Saucers. You can have your pasta with pork or beef or poultry or seafood! When you've twirled the last spoonful, check the Pasta 101 course, where you can learn about every shape and size noodle that's made. "I Love Pasta" and bet you do too!
Nestle's VeryBestBaking.com - Discover hundreds of best-loved recipes from the Nestle baking brands: Nestle Toll House, Nestle CarnatLibby's Pumpkin and Albers ion, Corn Meal and Grits.
Oscar Mayer Virtual Lunchbox: Home - If you wish you were an Oscar Mayer wiener, you'll want to spend a lot of time at this site. There are the usual recipes, contests, and company jabbering, but what caught our eye was the interactive History of the Wienermobile. With or without Real Audio, it's hot! The first hot dog on wheels toured the streets of Chicago in 1936. It was only 13 feet long. By the 1950s, the Wienermobile had grown to 22 feet. It had a sound system and a sunroof. By 1958, though, it finally got what it had been lacking all these years. No, it wasn't mustard--it was a bun! Six "Wienebagos" were touring the world by 1988, with the comforts of onboard microwave ovens and other conveniences. In 1995, the latest model is 27 feet long and 10 feet high. We cannot do any better than to quote from the home page: "The model underwent tests in the wind tunnel at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and could really, theoretically speaking, haul buns as it reached speeds in excess of 90 miles per hour." Hot dog!
Passion For Cooking - Hundreds of hand picked recipes and cooking tips with a personal touch! Submit your own recipe and win a quality cooking product! Find recipes for appetizers, main dishes, desserts, pizza, breads, soups, salads and much more!
Pearl's Pantry - Food Lover's Glossary - Have you ever read a recipe in a cookbook and come across an ingredient that's unfamiliar? This site is a collection of terms to make reading recipes easier. From "abalone" to " Zuppa Inglese ," the glossary provides mouth-watering definitions. The terms cover all types of food from all walks of life. There are recipes for every meal of the day and every course of the meal, plus some delightful extras. Check your knowledge against the glossary, but be warned: don't do it on an empty stomach.
Recipe-a-Day - Receive a Recipe-a-Day via this Thematic Daily List Service. They focus on the seasonal side of cooking and baking and provide you with the recipes that serve the time of the year.
RecipeXchange.com - Thousands of great family-tested recipe and food ideas. Low-fat cooking secrets, dessert favorites, complete menus. Learn from the best chefs!
Recipes-for-all.com - Ultimate directory of Recipes for all. Find Recipe of the day, World Cuisine of the week, Greeting of the month, new Recipes, cools Recipes and Recipes for all occasions. Contains a huge list of Recipes from all over the world
Rolling Your Own Sushi - Do you know how to eat with chopsticks? If not, don't worry--sushi is a wonderful finger food. Sushi is a Japanese delicacy that is fun and relatively easy to make. A common misunderstanding about sushi is that it is raw seafood. There is a form of sushi called sashimi, which does have raw seafood, but this is different from sushi. Sushi is delicious and it's good for you. Warning: Making sushi involves the use of a sharp knife; be sure to let your parents help you prepare your sushi.
Russian Cuisine - A great deal of delicious Russian recipes from ancient time to nowadays.
SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes - Browse or search an archive of over 60,000 recipes collected from a wide variety of Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. Includes a wide variety of ethnic foods, and many recipes for those on restricted diets such as diabetic or fat-free diets.
The Dinner Co-op Home Page: For Cooks and Food-Lovers - What's Dad making for dinner? The next time he has no idea, help him try the links on this page. For one thing, there are recipes--LOTS of recipes! We haven't checked all the links, but this site certainly has some interesting stuff. For example, can the color of food suppress your appetite? Have you ever noticed that besides blueberries, no blue food exists in nature? Our brains are just not keyed into seeing a blue thing as a food source. If you want to eat less, put a blue light in your dining room or eat from a blue plate.
The Kitchen Link - The Kitchen Link is a comprehensive, organized listing of recipes and food-related information available on the Net.
The Pie Page - When is the best time for pie? If you answered, "Anytime!" you are definitely going to enjoy this site, which has recipes for all of your favorite dessert pies and even one for venison pie...mmmm. Seriously, you'll find tips for better pie making here. There's also a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a perfect pie crust.
The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom - Ewwww! Do you dread being told to eat your veggies? Do Brussels sprouts make you hide in the closet? Vegetarian cooking doesn't have to mean tons of icky green food. The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom has assembled a list of tasty recipes for every meal, from breakfast to dessert. These pages are also loaded with important facts about nutrition. You'll find some animal rights information here too.
Veggie Kids - Sometimes kids don't like the same tastes their older brothers and sisters do. Here are some kid-approved vegetarian meals that you might ask your parents to try. There's a lentil dish with alphabet pasta, "corny" mini-muffins, and a special party "Hummm!us" dip made out of peanut butter! There are also tips for raising kids to love their veggies.
Veggies Unite! - Veggies Unite! Guide to healthy vegetarian/vegan living. Over 3,500 recipes, animal rights info and more!
Whirlpool: Really Cookin': Kids - "Messipes" from Whirlpool include illustrated instructions, a difficulty indication, and lots of international and everyday recipes for when you want to go beyond Ants on a Log.
Sweets
Ben & Jerry's - Admit it. How many times have you run to the grocery store because you needed a Ben & Jerry ice cream cone? Now you can get a preview of it here without leaving your seat. If you love their ice cream, you will love their site. It's chock-full of the philosophy and wit that makes them so popular. Find out who these guys are, and play with their fun stuff. If you still grieve over the discontinuation of your favorite flavor, make sure to visit the flavor graveyard and find peace of mind knowing that at least they have gone to the great Web page on the Net. If you get a craving for the real thing, don't even try to lick the screen--just go to the store like everyone else. Funny thing, though. They make over 50 products, but only 34 of them are available in supermarkets. For the rest, you have to go to one of their Scoop Shops. Their hottest ice cream flavor is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Run to the store right now to try their newest flavor: Tropic of Mango.
Bob's Candies - Haven't you always wondered how those stripes get on candy canes? The answer's here! Visit the candy cane factory to see how it's done. You'll also discover the origin of the distinctive hooked shape and its association with Christmas.
Candy USA - If you eat all that good, healthy food Mom gives you, maybe she'll let you have a treat for dessert. Until then, visit this site, where you'll learn a lot about candy and chocolate. There are candy statistics, nutritional info, candy in the news, and even candy contests! According to this site, "The best-selling kids' candy these days is anything an adult wouldn't normally choose to eat: super sour suckers, candies that color the mouth, anything blue raspberry-flavored, and anything with `gross out' appeal." Is that true for you and your friends?
Godiva Chocolatier - See how sweet life can be. Godiva Chocolate welcomes you to their playground for chocolate lovers. They tempt your palate with chocolate recipes, trivia, and an online catalog for instant gratification. If only the Web would implement those aroma attribute protocols! You will never forget another anniversary or birthday if you register with their free gift reminder service. If that still isn't enough, they have plenty of links to other chocolate sites to help satisfy your cravings.
Hershey's KidzTown - Crunchy, creamy, drippy like hot fudge or steaming like cocoa--what could be more delicious than chocolate? Where do they make chocolate? Lots of places, but one of them is in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at Hershey's Chocolate Town, U.S.A. This site has fun facts about chocolate and a tour of the largest chocolate factory in the world. There's also lots of cool info about the Hershey Kissmobile--check the schedule to see when it's coming to your town.
Hershey's KidzTown - Crunchy, creamy, drippy like hot fudge or steaming like cocoa--what could be more delicious than chocolate? Where do they make chocolate? Lots of places, but one of them is in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at Hershey's Chocolate Town, U.S.A. This site has fun facts about chocolate and a tour of the largest chocolate factory in the world. There's also lots of cool info about the Hershey Kissmobile--check the schedule to see when it's coming to your town.
Jell-O: 100 Years and Still the Coolest - Wow--in a year, 413,997,403 packages of Jell-O gelatin dessert are produced. If you laid the boxes end to end, they would stretch three-fifths of the way around the globe with plenty of room to spare! This site traces the cool history of America's favorite dessert and also offers recipes as well as a place to buy special molds online.
Jelly Belly Online - There are over 40 different flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans, and some of them can be combined in "recipes" to make still more flavors. For example, chew a Peanut Butter candy and a Grape one to taste Peanut Butter and Jelly. Jelly Bellys have flown on the space shuttle and were served at former President Reagan's inaugural festivities. At this site you can take a factory tour and check out some fabulous art made entirely of--you guessed it.
M&M's Industrial Candy & Magic - When you eat M&M's, which colors do you eat first? Which colors do you avoid? Take a tour of the M&M factory, and play some funny Shockwave games like Melt the Candy Bar. If you don't have Shockwave, just download the games (Windows or Mac) for use later. Remember, virtual M&M's don't melt in your hand or your mouth, but you'll be hungry for some serious chocolate after you visit this site! You can also get screen savers and wallpaper to make sure there is always chocolate in the house when you want some. Check the site map for the locations of these resources.
Montana Moon Cookies - Montana Moon Cookies combine hearty Montana grains with molasses - rich turbinado sugar, egg whites, aluminum-free baking powder, and other 100% natural ingredients to make a healthy, guilt-free treat with an untamed taste that'll knock your boots off!
Nabisco: America's Favorite Food Company! - Are you a twister or a dunker? Any way you eat Oreos, they are America's favorite sandwich cookie treat. Discover the stories behind how your favorite snacks came to be--like Fig Newtons, Barnum's Animal Crackers, and Chips Ahoy cookies. Nabisco also offers a section for healthy living, cooking tips, and recipes, and they challenge you to lots of fun games. You may have to check the directory site map for the locations of these items.
Planet Twinkie - How do you feel about Twinkies--you know, those delectable cream-filled sponge cakes? Most people either love them or hate them, but they must be doing something right because millions are sold each year. Here you'll find a whole "planet" dedicated to this snack food, including games about Twinkies, Web sites about Twinkies, and even wacky scientific experimentation with, what else: Twinkies!
The Pie Page - When is the best time for pie? If you answered, "Anytime!" you are definitely going to enjoy this site, which has recipes for all of your favorite dessert pies and even one for venison pie...mmmm. Seriously, you'll find tips for better pie making here. There's also a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a perfect pie crust.
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