Cooking Help

Recent article profiling cooking smartphone apps, twitter feeds, and telephone hotlines.   A list of hotline phone numbers is given at the end.

http://www.letseatpa.com/ci_16555201

 

Cooking Reference

Cooks Thesaurus: Comprehensive cooking encyclopedia covering thousands of ingredients and tools.  Includes descriptions, photos, alternate names, and substitutions.

http://www.switcheroo.com/

 

Basic Cooking Techniques

http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/technic.htm

 

Epicurious Food Dictionary

http://www.epicurious.com/tools/fooddictionary

 

Food Safety

http://www.foodsafety.gov/

 

Ingredient Dictionary

http://www.food.com/library/

 

Ingredient Substitutions

Baking ingredient substitutions

http://www.joyofbaking.com/IngredientSubstitution.html

 

Food allergy substitutions

http://foodallergies.about.com/od/livingwithfoodallergies/tp/foodsubstitutes.htm

 

General ingredient substitutions

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09329.html

 

Healthier ingredient substitutions

http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/extension/pdf/recipesubst.pdf

 

Herb and spice substitutions

http://www.deejayssmokepit.net/SpiceDownloads_files/SpiceSubstitutions.pdf

 

Using Sugar Substitutes

http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/bl010598b.htm

 

Let’s Talk Turkey

Butterball turkey tip videos

http://www.butterball.com/tips-how-tos/how-tos/videos

 

Turkey cooking guide

http://www.recipetips.com/kitchen-tips/t-36-/turkey-cooking-guide.asp

 

Turkey carving instructional video from America’s Test Kitchen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8I7f-SKTA

 

Measurement and Temperature Conversions

Converting measurements from old recipes

http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/bloldconvert.htm

 

Cooking measurement and temperature conversions.

http://smittenkitchen.com/cooking-conversions/