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With many warm days in sight, a greater variety of fresh fruit, vegetables, seafood and other seasonal food staples are on the market. So, how to resist the urge to head for the kitchen and whip up something sunny for friends and family? At your fingertips... lots of websites offering mouth-watering recipes geared to every taste and diet, as well as cooking advice and menu ideas.

www.theurbanpeasant.com
“Cooking ought to be easy and fun and it ought to be something we can all do and enjoy together,” writes Irishman James Barber, star of CBC TV's food show, “The Urban Peasant.” Instead of running around looking for a pencil to jot down his recipes as he cooks them up on the screen, you can easily look up his latest menu, or consult the archives from past shows. The strength of this site is that it features simple dishes like “chicken with tomatoes, coriander and roasted almonds,” using ingredients you can easily find at the corner store. When you first log on you have immediate access to the dish of the day, but to consult the recipe databank you need to become a member (free of charge). Then you can call up any number of recipes by entering up to six ingredients, choose the type of cuisine you want, and opt for a given cooking time or method. Included are funny quotes from Barber, peppered with tips to help you through the entire preparation process.

www.geocities.com/napavalley/4079
Within Yahoo's own food and wine website, there is a further listing highlighting numerous cuisine sites. “What’s Cooking” is an extensive page complete with a recipe index, food facts, hints and tips, questions and answers on kitchen preparation, safety advice, dinner party ideas and links that connect you with the most recent cookery pages featured in America’s top newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows. If you don’t discover what you’re looking for there, you can always surf to another Yahoo location, www.geocities.com/napavalley/2950, where you’ll find “Let’s get cooking with Mama.” This is another very large database of recipes ranging from classic headings such as Meat, Vegetables and Desserts to kids recipes, casseroles, canning and preserving methods, dips and wild game.

www.cookinclub.com
Formerly an AOL forum, Liz Water’s site claims to be the first on-line cooking space. You can gain free access to recipes via its request discussion board — a searchable on-line archive based at the University of California Berkeley. In addition, there’s a page that links you to a humanitarian organization dedicated to combating world hunger. Also sign up for Pillsbury’s Bake-Off newsletter.

www.cookinglight.com
Like its namesake, this on-line companion to a popular monthly food mag offers a multiplicity of ideas on healthy living and cooking. Among the recipes you’ll discover — mustard maple salmon, fresh strawberry pies, menus for two or four... Buffets, family suppers and grilled foods.





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								Cyber Sitings by Carol Mongo What's cooking ? With many warm days in sight, a greater variety of fresh fruit, vegetables, seafood and other seasonal food staples are on the market. So, how to resist the urge to head for the kitchen and whip up something sunny for friends and family? At your fingertips... lots of websites offering mouth-watering recipes geared to every taste and diet, as well as cooking advice and menu ideas. www.theurbanpeasant.com “Cooking ought to be easy and fun and it ought to be something we can all do and enjoy together,” writes Irishman James Barber, star of CBC TV's food show, “The Urban Peasant.” Instead of running around looking for a pencil to jot down his recipes as he cooks them up on the screen, you can easily look up his latest menu, or consult the archives from past shows. The strength of this site is that it features simple dishes like “chicken with tomatoes, coriander and roasted almonds,” using ingredients you can easily find at the corner store. When you first log on you have immediate access to the dish of the day, but to consult the recipe databank you need to become a member (free of charge). Then you can call up any number of recipes by entering up to six ingredients, choose the type of cuisine you want, and opt for a given cooking time or method. Included are funny quotes from Barber, peppered with tips to help you through the entire preparation process. www.geocities.com/napavalley/4079 Within Yahoo's own food and wine website, there is a further listing highlighting numerous cuisine sites. “What’s Cooking” is an extensive page complete with a recipe index, food facts, hints and tips, questions and answers on kitchen preparation, safety advice, dinner party ideas and links that connect you with the most recent cookery pages featured in America’s top newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows. If you don’t discover what you’re looking for there, you can always surf to another Yahoo location, www.geocities.com/napavalley/2950, where you’ll find “Let’s get cooking with Mama.” This is another very large database of recipes ranging from classic headings such as Meat, Vegetables and Desserts to kids recipes, casseroles, canning and preserving methods, dips and wild game. www.cookinclub.com Formerly an AOL forum, Liz Water’s site claims to be the first on-line cooking space. You can gain free access to recipes via its request discussion board — a searchable on-line archive based at the University of California Berkeley. In addition, there’s a page that links you to a humanitarian organization dedicated to combating world hunger. Also sign up for Pillsbury’s Bake-Off newsletter. www.cookinglight.com Like its namesake, this on-line companion to a popular monthly food mag offers a multiplicity of ideas on healthy living and cooking. Among the recipes you’ll discover — mustard maple salmon, fresh strawberry pies, menus for two or four... Buffets, family suppers and grilled foods.