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Lifestyle/Technology | Sites can help teach grammar, create recipes, and find other useful facts | Susan Olasky

Last month I wrote about websites that are useful for studying art history, Hebrew, and math. Here's a recommendation from a junior high teacher: GrammarBook.com. "I love the videos, and I occasionally send students to the computer lab to watch a quick grammar lesson. I can't explain why, but for some kids a grammar concept we have been discussing for days in class suddenly makes sense in a 60 second video."

Another helpful site: RecipePuppy.com, a search engine for recipes. Type in the ingredients you have on hand and it fetches recipes from all around the internet. The site's creator had several goals: "It should be able to search by ingredient and/or keyword at the same time. You should be able to exclude recipes with ingredients you don't like." When I typed in salsa, cheddar cheese, yogurt, and eggs, Recipe Puppy returned 147,895 recipes, including ones for Mexican Fudge Appetizer and Smoky Corn Muffins. When I added one more ingredient, black beans, my options decreased to one: Green Ranch-hand Eggs Recipe.