). The menu, if I remember correctly, was traditional Turkish fast-fare: soups, flatbreads, grills, salads; chicken might have been present, but wasn’t the centerpiece.

think they were Big Boy tomatoes. Yellow pears are adorable..I usually just keep a mixture of tomatoes in a bowl on the table as my "centerpiece" :)

They look like designer malted milk balls. :) What a lovely centerpiece! Note I did not say TABLESCAPE. Nice job!

, unless they are somehow transformed into another dish. Meat is an important part of our diet, and each meal consists of meat as the centerpiece, whether it is chicken, beef, or pork. Fish, and shellfish(crab, shrimp) are also...

is the centerpiece of a traditional Thanksgiving meal, and I would miss it if it was not offered. To me roast turkey, mashed potatoes, turkey gravey, and pumpkin pie are the meal. I am sure the other carnivores will appreciate...

). I also do an edible centerpiece of dried fruits, nuts in the shell, clementines, etc. What are you serving?

cheese, roasted garlic, fennel sausage, fresh tomato and a homemade horseradish sauce. The latter initially made me cringe, but it’s the centerpiece of their steak pizza. Our deal was that if she drove with me from Santa...

sterling in the appropriate configuration, sparkling porcelain and crystal in the correct sizes and shapes, a lovely and properly scaled centerpiece, and the required number of candles. On the other hand, in return for the...

out, this becomes one of the very few truly make-ahead dishes in the book, making it a convenient centerpiece for a multiple-dish meal. And the leftovers are fantastic cold. Okay, I’ll give it a rest.

Your hosts forgot to provide automatic weapons and a Caterpillar 929 for the mud run. As for food, the centerpiece would be a rustled Angus beef, hung and dressed on the engine hoist at Junior’s Sunoco sometime the night...

that there was a centerpiece of protein with a pile of starch and a few veggies on the side; nope, every bite was exquisite and shows the input of much thought and time by the chef. Dessert was a brown sugar cake with maple ice...

What do the posters here think about the fairness of using store bought curry as a base in an elimination dish? Certainly the beef tallowed tofu is the centerpiece but pre-made curry is a lot less basic an ingredient than salt or...

foods are out as well. go veg if possible— meat is usually the biggest $$$ on your grocery bill. if you eat meat infrequently you will appreciate it more and find that you are satisfied with less— or a meat accent...

, and sometimes a small vase of simple flowers. The hostess can decide to put it on their bedside table or an end table. The flowers shouldn’t be brought as a centerpiece. Knowing the wine will likely be consumed that...

into the floral centerpiece also shown here. Ginny gets points for correctly identifying the scabiosa. (g) Image: http://home.earthlink.net/~melainewong/_uimages/mignardaise.jpg