Monday, June 17, 2002		Entertainment

Prepare Italian dishes

ANYTHING that pleases you, changes your mood and doesn't tax your mind is a good source for entertainment. Be it music, cooking, travel, watching TV, reading newspaper or magazine, anything could be a good source of entertainment. There are many persons around who are fond of eating and there are some who are fond of cooking. Yes! Cooking is a good source of entertainment and if you also agree with me, then there is a treasure waiting to be discovered on the Internet.

The best and most comprehensive site on the net for recipes is www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes. This is a huge site with numerous recipes on various types of foods. The categories of recipes includes appetizers and snacks (includes DIPS), bread, pancakes, biscuits and muffins, cake, candy, casseroles, cheese recipes, cookies and bars, crockpot recipes, desserts, drinks, ethnic dishes, grains and cereals, meat, miscellaneous, pasta, pie and pizza recipes, preserves, salads, sauces and marinades, seafood, souffle recipes, sourdough, soups, special diet recipes, vegetable recipes etc. All these categories have recipes for dishes and preparations. The list is so big that you can spend years in trying these recipes. There is only one limitation of this site. It is not well laid out and designed, but what's in the show, if you can make delicious food that can really satisfy your taste buds. Another good site on recipes is www.rumela.com/recipe/continental_recipes_italian.htm. Now people are developing taste for intercontinental dishes. Gradually Italian food is gaining popularity as people are developing taste for it. If you are also an admirer of Italian food, then log on to this site and learn the recipes to make pizzas, pasta, dessert, soups etc. So cook and enjoy your recipes. — IV