Care of the Home:
Cooking, Gardening, Repairs, and Remodeling
Apartment Rental and Relocation
Provides a database of apartments for rent in all fifty states, Canada, and overseas.
Armchair Gardener
Provides resources and links for gardeners with an emphasis on flower gardens, especially roses.
Ask the Master Plumber
http://www.clickit.com/bizwiz/homepage/plumber.htm
Provides information and a question and answer service for plumbing problems.
Better Homes and Gardens Online
Provides information on home improvement, repairs, and similar items to help the do-it-yourselfer in the house.
Betty Crocker
Provides recipes, menu planning tips, shopping lists, and other cooking resources.
Cook's Thesaurus
Provides suggestions of substitutes for ingredients, and also explains possible drawbacks of some substitutes.
Drink Mixing
Provides recipes for more than 5,000 drinks, and allows users to list the drink ingredients they have available and gives all the drinks in their database that can be made with those ingredients.
Epicurious Food
Provides recipes and related resources from Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.
Fabric Origami Workshop
Provides instructions for a variety of projects using fabric origami, many with embellishments such as beads and embroidery.
Fine Cooking
http://www.taunton.com/finecooking/index.asp
Provides recipes and information on cooking techniques, ingredients, and menus. Also contains links to other cooking sites.
Flora's Recipe Hideout
http://www.floras-hideout.com/
Provides cooking tips and recipes with special sections on low-fat cooking.
Flowerweb
Provides resources and links of interest to gardeners.
Home Doctor
http://homedoctor.net/main.html
Provides information on remodeling and repair of homes and major appliances. Also provides an opportunity for asking questions about remodeling and repair, and assistance on calculating mortgages.
House Net - Your Home Improvement Neighbors
Provides information on home improvement projects.
Internet Chef
Provides cooking information, recipes, and an opportunity to submit recipes for inclusion in the database.
Learn 2 - The ability utility
Provides instructions to do a variety of things, from fixing a toilet to wrapping a present to darning a sock.
Mimi's Cyber Kitchen
Provides resources and links related to food, cooking, and recipes.
National Gardening Association
Provides tips on gardening.
National Kitchen and Bath Association
Provides tips for decorating, remodeling, and renovating kitchens and bathrooms with separate sections for professionals and consumers.
Quilt Gallery Magazine
Provides an online magazine (also available via e-mail) emphasizing modern quilting design and techniques.
Roses and Rose Lovers: The Rosarian
Provides resources and links for those who love and/or grow roses.
Smoothie Central
http://unicity.net/reine/smoothie/
Provides recipes for smoothies, particularly useful for those on a liquid diet, but also for those who enjoy fruit and vegetable drinks.
Talkin' Turkey Dinner
Provides recipes and tips for cooking turkey
2 Busy Stitching
http://www.2busystitching.com/
Provides resources and links for needleworkers.
Tool Doctor
Provides answers to questions about power tools.
Vegetarian Pages
Provides a guide to restaurants, stores, organizations and services for vegetarians.
Windstar Wildlife Institute
Provides resources and links for attracting wildlife to your property.
Yum Yum
Provides recipes, cooking tips, and kitchen humor.
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