KITCHEN NETWORKING

NEW YORK The Recipe Center of Better Homes and Gardens Online, atwww.bhg.com, puts around 2,000 kitchen-tested recipes at the cook'sfingertips.

Site visitors can make text searches to find a dish, compile amenu, make a shopping list and organize future schedules.

Recipe collections were combined to help find specific types ofdishes, says Nancy Byal, executive food editor of Better Homes andGardens magazine.

"Consumer research led us to include obvious choices like `low-fat' and `quick-to-table' but also some less obvious collections like`recipes with eight or fewer ingredients,' " says Byal. Recipesinclude nutritional information.

One feature on the Web site offers: "Tell us what you have onhand, and we'll find recipes that include those ingredients."

A test run naming eggs, spinach and bread produced threesuggestions. A query for onion soup found 129 references.