oh and to finsish the Americanizations, a resturuant near me makes a great appetizer by basically battering and frying a steamed pork crepe (the kind you often find on dim sum menus, wrapped in beancurd skin) They’re great...

Thanks Jfood, I always have bananas around too, and will make that one as well. I have the bowl in the freezer, getting nice and cold to make an ice cream for our Easter dinner. I saw a banana flavoring at the grocery store last...

Cal, where as kids we cruised the groves and backyard fruit trees. The passing year was marked by fruit seasons, tangerines mean january, loquats at Easter, strawberries and nectarines summer vacation, apricots july 4th,...

with an array of great Italian dishes. The trick is that they were all picnicky, so they had to be served at room temperature and stand a lot of time sans refrigeration or cooking. When I made Easter dinner last spring for about...

maid comes, and like the absent-minded professor, puts things in the oddest places. Then it becomes like an Easter Egg hunt!

Agree – it’s just one of those Thanksgiving traditions when the entire family gets together. How many articles have we all read that, no matter what, Thanksgiving is the one meal a year that you just don’t...

Let me tell you about the first Cajun turkey I made. It was Easter, a few years ago about the only holiday I was hosting that year and I wanted to try something different. DH was away on a trip, neither boys around and I got the...

, I added the recommended amount of sauce to the meat, and then some more to the cheese. But, as Mario writes in the introduction to the recipe: "Pasticcio is a full-on party for Easter-in one beautiful mess." And it also makes...

Don’t know the marshmallow peanuts but surely they’re like Easter peeps (marshmallow chicks), which improve greatly with age. A year is about right.

... i think the desserts are good. other than that it’s ok. given food of a comparable standard, and price-perf, i prefer french to say middle easter, north african ... so clementine > aziza is probably more of a statement...

I need a little help here...hope you Chowhounders can give me some!! I need to put together a piece on Thanksgiving food (Hannukah food, Easter food, Christmas food, Family Holiday foods all apply here) that is traditional to your...

my aunt used to make this when we were young and it was our favorite. she would bring it to easter dinner (god only knows why). god we loved that stuff. i do make tuna casserole still but like kelli2006 i made my own mushroom...

Some people are anal and socially clueless. They are. If they’re otherwise good friends, they can learn some and you can learn to work around them. One of my dear friends hosts what she calls an Easter dinner...

really tight and put the rest in the freezer. Then when you’re ready to bake again next Christmas or Easter or whenever, it’s ready too. And don’t worry if it says it’s for bread machines on the jar. It...

). Sadly, no one wanted my cheesecake, though we were all told to bring your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and in my family, cheesecake was always the dish that defined Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or anyone’s birthday....