Happy Thanksgiving to my readers in the States! I hope you all have a great day with family, friends, and food. Here's a look at how Google and Yahoo are celebrating the holiday today with a special logo:

More Thanksgiving resources on the Web

• Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt - Test Your Web Search Skills With The ...
• Free Thanksgiving Wallpaper
• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - Thanksgiving Free Live Webcams
• Thanksgiving Menus at the Most Expensive Restaurants in America
• How do I find Thanksgiving dinner recipes on the Web?

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the States, and those of us who celebrate this food-filled holiday fall into one of two categories: everything is already done and we're sitting on the couch watching football, OR, we're frantically cooking and baking in preparation for guests who will be here any minute. Either way, you might want to know how to find a few of your favorite Thanksgiving dinner recipes on the Web. First, let's look at a few search engines for recipes.

• Thanksgiving stuffing recipes: Try this search in Yahoo; they've got search results nicely categorized with the best stuffing recipes at the very top.
• Thanksgiving turkey recipes: Again, Yahoo is going to be your best bet for easy search results. Ask gives you some good results that you'll have to scroll through - you'll want to take advantage of the related topics to the immediate right of your search results. My last pick would be Google, simply because there are so many results to pick through.
• Pumpkin pie recipes: Yep - your best pick would be Yahoo here, followed closely by Bing.

Short on time? Don't want to spend time searching for your recipes? Here are some instant links for you:

The Turkey:

• Turkey Brine Recipes and Information
• Turkey 101 - Thanksgiving Dinner Turkey Recipes
• Turkey Roasting Times Chart
• Thanksgiving Roast Stuffed Turkey Recipe

The Stuffing:

• Southern-style Stuffing Recipes
• Stuffing 101
• Stuffing and Dressing Cooking Tips and Hints
• Sausage Stuffing Recipe

Side Dishes:

• Mashed Potato Recipe - Easy Fluffy Mashed Potatoes
• Mashed Potatoes Recipes
• Sweet Potatoes - Sweet Potato Recipes and Information
• Green Bean Casserole Recipe - Vegetable Recipes

Rolls:

• Dinnner Rolls
• My Grandmother's Parker House Rolls Recipe
• Five Easy Dinner Rolls

Pies:

• Pumpkin Pie Recipe - and More Pumpkin Recipes
• Traditional Pumpkin Pie Dessert Recipes
• Low Fat Pumpkin Pie

More Thanksgiving fun

Many educational studies have shown that if you have fun while you're learning something, you tend to retain it better. Well, what better opportunity to test this theory than the Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt, all about Thanksgiving traditions, Thanksgiving history, and Thanksgiving trivia. Plus, it's a GREAT way to test your Web search skills and have fun at the same time!

'Tis the season for some serious baking, cooking, and recipe planning, and since I am a bit of a recipe junkie, I've been compiling a long list of great dishes I can't wait to try out via the Web.

Doing a recipe search by ingredient is useful, especially if you've got a few food items and no idea how to put them together. You can use any search engine you like to do this; simply input your ingredient, say, "chicken", and then "recipes". Got more than one ingredient? No problem: try chicken+lemon recipes (a little bit of Boolean search there).

There are also a few recipe search engines that let you search for multiple ingredients easily. For example:

• CookingByNumbers.com
• Supercook: recipe search by ingredients you have at home
• Cookstr
• FoodieView - The Recipe Search Engine
• Search for Recipes by Ingredient - Recipe Puppy

Do you have a favorite recipe search tip or recipe search site? Please share in the comments.

More fun with food on the Web

• Droogle - a Drink Recipe Search Engine
• Home Cooking Recipes
• Southern Food and Recipes
• Low Fat Cooking
• Busy Cooks Quick and Easy Cooking and Recipes

I've long been a fan of Clusty, a meta search engine with lots of interesting features, such as a government-specific search utility. Clusty has a great new optimized interface for the Nintendo Wii so you can browse it more easily via the Web; you can find it at wii.clusty.com. Best feature? Large buttons so you don't make time-consuming mistakes with your Wii controller.

Related:

Search the Web with Nintendo Wii: Between championship games of baseball with my kids on the Nintendo Wii, I've had the chance to scope out a few Wii-friendly browsers and sites made specifically to search the Web from the Wii console, and here's what I've turned up so far.