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How to cook
What's for dinner?

Uh-oh. Now you've done it. You had scheduled time today to plan a party for fifty of your dearest friends. Or maybe you told your sweetie you'd make a special home-cooked meal.

You gave your word. Yet instead of attacking your to-do list today -- riffling through your recipe box, planning a menu, making three shopping lists, and whipping up some fabulous make-ahead dessert -- you got caught up in something else.

Now you're really short on time. You've been chained to your desk so long you don't even know what's in season, produce-wise. You know what's at home, though, and it's not much more than some aging parsnips. Now what?

Not to worry. Maybe it's a little late to grow any herbs you'll need in your own kitchen garden, or to join a mailing list for easy gourmet recipes. But you can still accomplish a lot in what time you've got.

The Net offers full-service food sites, fancy menus, and recipes -- many, many recipes -- along with recipe finders to help you locate just the right one in a hurry. (In no time, you could wind up with a great selection of parsnip concoctions.)

Some sites allow you to choose recipes' levels of difficulty, dietary requirements, and preparation times. You might also decide whether the food will be healthful or decadent, or you could request that a meal not contain a certain hated (or allergenic) ingredient. As you check off what you like on proffered menus, you could actually be generating a shopping list. You'll find sites to help you determine what you're likely to find at your local produce mart, too -- before you get your heart set on green pears. And maybe, just maybe, you can do your grocery shopping online.

So relax. Have fun. And once you've got that last dish -- parsnip pudding is it? -- on the stove, give me a call. I'll bring the wine.



-- Catherine deCuir is a frequent contributor to NetGuide Live. It's her turn to cook dinner tonight.

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Snappy Picks

Inspiration
Cooking Light.
Epicurious
Kitchen Link
Eclectic Kitchen
FoodNet
Amy Gale's Archives
Redbook: The Redbook Cookbook
Better Homes and Gardens

Recipes
Epicurious Recipe File
Mega Bite's Top Ten % Recipe Finders
Virtual Kitchen
Recipe and Food Network
Cheshire Crafts Cooking-Related Files

Vegetarian and other special diets
Good Karma Cafe
Veggies United
Allergy Free Cooking
KYoung's Recipes for Diabetics

The four food groups plus one
alt.food
alt.cooking-chat
rec.food.cooking
rec.food.recipes
rec.food.drink.beer

Ethnic delights
The Gumbo Pages (Creole and Cajun)
Internet Scottish Recipes
Hello, China! Recipe Exchange

Produce guides
Epicurious -- What's Ripe in...
Uncle Howie the Greengrocer (at Aunt Sally's Cyber Kitchen)

Groceries and cooking supplies online
Peapod
Farmdirect Marketplace
Bertrand Gourmet Store
Molly's Vegi-burgers
Omaha Steaks
CyberShop
Whole Foods Market
NetGuide Live's Shopping Guide

Quick solutions
PizzaHut


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