the stuffing part with chicken or cornish hens. (The stuffing also had hazelnuts and sage) *Baked Sweet Potatoes with Maple Pecan Shallot Butter. Also from Fine Cooking. This is also a definite keeper – the butter and...

-music station because he knows how much I love it now. It’s definitely one of my favorite things at Christmastime. I do have a question for you GG — I’ve always wondered: what is a conserve? How does it differ...

Ohio: Cincinnati Chili, Polish influences (pirogee) Texas: BBQ Beef Brisket Louisiana: Cajun? Kentucky: Southern Fried Chicken North Carolina: Pulled Pork (Vinegar Sauce) Florida: Definitely Cuban Penn: Fries & Slaw in a Sandwich...

<Absolutely. I will never bring flowers again.> Don’t make a rule like that. I LOVE to get flowers. never had a bridal shower, but definitely always have something to put flowers in! and there can never be too many...

time I tried, I read that you have to use LOTS of oil. This definitely made the noodles better, but the flavor still isn’t the same.

to the creamy pinkish color of the soup from the red pepper. Keep the broccoli florets separate from the soup and add them in after you have served the soup into bowls — no soggy factor. We like this with homemade croutons...

the packaged stuff. Bellini “Jello” & Peach Pie “Jello” http://www.chowhound.com/topics/316416 Strawberry white merlot ‘Jell-o’ ... I outdid Martha Stewart http://www.chowhound.com/topics/315519 I made “JELLO” !!! ... So...

That sounds great! Will definitely make it when the weather gets cooler. Love cabbage, but have never made stuffed cabbage before. For dinner yesterday, we went somple- Grilled Steak, baked potatoes, garden green beans, corn and...

and at least one layer was opaque with something like Cool Whip. The Martha Stewart of the back country brought a fetching number that was quite clever. She had somehow entrapped cubes of one color of Jello into a matrix of...

I will not try to make cured meat (like Country ham, city ham, etc.) I will also avoid roast pig or duck you get in Chinatown No pastries with phyllo like baklava – too much work to handle the layers of phyllo dough...

Thanks very much Greedygirl, I’m definitely seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! And I can tell you, I appreciate these special people even more than I did before! Plus I have a lot of time to play on Chowhound :)

, Tom Colicchio, Nigel Slater and definitely Bittman/Vongerichten. As everyone said: Keep pratticing. To give yourself some direction/motivation, tr ynad find one cuisine you would really like to get the basics of. Then, work...

She must love Sandra on the food betwork! I definitely do not think this qualifies as home made- maybe as home baked! But I certainly sympathise with you as to her rude behavior. I cannot imagine visiting someone and giving...

a variety of nice vases or sometimes I use little julep cups down the center of the long table (when did I become Martha Stewart?!) Plus right now we live in an apartment so just have one living room/dining room. There really...

because it was during last minute preparation, and I’m no Martha Stewart. But I would immediately forgive and announce that it was all going “right there” in whatever out-of-the-way place I could find. I just had to learn to...