Holiday hot lines

Got a holiday meal emergency? Check out the companies below for last minute advice, troubleshooting, handy tips and recipes and rest a bit easier this season.

Butterball

800-288-8372, butterball.com

Offers bilingual assistance (English and Spanish), call or e-mail questions to talk@butterball.com. Get hooked up to Butterball Mobile for turkey tips and recipes, calculators and conversion measures directly on your mobile phone.

Crisco Pie hot line

877-367-7438, crisco.com

Offers live pie experts yearlong from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday, but the company extends hours during the holiday season. Call between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. until Wednesday and Dec. 13 to 23. Troubleshooting, storage advice and tips for cutting prep time.

Pillsbury Baking

www.pillsburybaking.com

Baker's Corner offers baking ideas, basic concepts and baking tips. Also a list of emergency substitutions for when you realize you're missing a key ingredient.

There's an app for that

Chow's Thanksgiving Dinner Coach iPhone app takes you step-by-step through Thanksgiving week. Choose recipes, plan your shopping, schedule your cooking all from your phone. This one's free from CBS Mobile.

CookIt allows you to schedule cooking times for all the dishes that make a meal. Enter the dishes and individual cook times for meal components and CookIt will alert you when to start the next thing. It also comes with a countdown to mealtime. This app made by Matt Facer is $0.99.

Epicurious' Epi Recipes and Shopping List was voted best mobile application in 2009. It has thousands of recipes to search. Best of all, it's free from CondeNast.