First came the Thanksgiving hot lines. Then the turkey tweets.Now, there’s an app for that pie, the marshmallow-studded yam casserole, even the carving dilemma.Where once you relied on your old school butcher or a frantic call to Mom to solve menu mysteries and holiday cooking snafus, now Martha Stewart and Food Network are a mere click away.Here’s a slew of resources — electronic and telephonic — to help turkey roasters, brussels braisers and the pie patrol.• Gourmet Live: Gourmet Live, the online arm of the now-shuttered Gourmet Magazine, offers iPad (and Web) users a steady stream of new content, including plenty of holiday-meal inspiration. Among the recipes posted in the past couple of weeks: Butternut Squash and Apple Soup, a Spiced-Butter Roast Turkey with Rosemary and Bourbon Spiked Gravy, and Pumpkin Panna Cotta. Download it or surf the online version at http://live.gourmet.com.• In the Kitchen: Food Network puts its considerable television and online foodie expertise into hand-held form with an iPhone and iPad app, In the Kitchen, that includes Alton Brown’s roast turkey, Ina Garten’s Pumpkin Banana Mousse Tart and 45,000 other recipes. Download it for $2 on iTunes. Find more holiday recipes and tips online at foodnetwork.com/holiday-central/package.• Martha Stewart Makes Cookies: For holiday cookies, try the Martha Stewart Makes Cookies app for the iPad and iPhone, with recipes — macarons, anyone? — as well as gorgeous photographs, e-mailable grocery lists, packaging ideas and a spinner to help indecisive bakers choose their cookies. Download it for $8 at iTunes.• Epicurious: The mainstay of recipe seekers has a free app for iPhones and Androids, but you’ll find the holiday-centric fare online, including how-to videos and centerpiece suggestions, as well as recipes for Caramel Pumpkin Pie, Tom Colicchio’s Herb-Butter Turkey and vegetarian specialties too; epicurious.com.• Old school hot lines: Forgot the gizzards inside the turkey? Pop-up thermometer didn’t pop? Call Butterball’s turkey hot line at 1-800-BUTTERBALL and Foster Farms’ help line at 1-800-255-7227 through December.

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