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Resolved Question: What dish at a holiday dinner or other family gathering has the best memories for you, and why?

Italian Christmas dinners are not generally centred around a stuffed turkey or goose, or a ham. Like most Italian meals, they’re multi-course affairs starting with antipasti -- and they generally include pasta, meats, fish, contorni and it goes on and on and on. One year, I spent the afternoon preparing for our Christmas dinner with my 5-year-old niece Madelaine, teaching her how to clean and cook octopus. It would be really hard for me to pick a favourite dish since they are so intertwined with family memories, but one of the dishes that appears regularly at any Rocco Christmas feast is Polpo in Umido, and it’s a memory I share with my niece. I have a Jewish friend who remembers her grandmother’s meat blinzes, a soft meat-filled crepe, very fondly. She says she's never eaten a softer or more delicate crepe since and when she thinks of it, she remembers family dinners at her grandparents. What is the dish you had at a holiday dinner that has the best memories for you? Yahoo! Canada Answers Staff Note: This is the real David Rocco! His cookbook, David Rocco's Dolce Vita (HarperCollins), is out now: http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/9781554680283/David_Roccos_Dolce_Vita/index.aspx more

Resolved Question: how do you like my book in the making?

Windtalker Chapter 1 By the sound of the school bell, I was released from my sorry excuse for a school. Mayberry Middle was an okay school, but it was full of bad teachers. Especially Mrs. Woods. She never liked me, and I don’t know why. Maybe it had to do with the fact that my dad fired her son at the farm because he left the saddle on Valentine, and then ran off with his girlfriend to I don’t even know where. That poor horse Valentine was left out in the heat all alone, sweating, and almost had a heat stroke. Served that mean guy right. Anyway, it was the day before Christmas, and I wanted to go home and get ready for it, tree and all. We had already decorated the tree, but I didn’t put my special ornament on it that I always put up on the last minute. It’s a beautiful buckskin mustang. It’s gold, and even though it’s a little scratched and tarnished, it’s valuable. To me, that is. My parents gave it to me on my tenth birthday (back then it wasn’t in bad shape). I carried it all over and I even made a little bed for it, and every Christmas, I would put it up on the tree, right beside the angel on the top. When I was trying to stand tall to get my ornament onto the top branch, I remembered that my mom had said to me that this Christmas was going to be a special one. I’m not sure what that means, but when my mom says something’s special, she means it. “Your thirteenth Christmas should be a good one,” she said to me. “Finally!” I announced. “It’s perfect, right where the sun will hit him and make him shine.” I smiled at that thought of Christmas morning coming down the stairs and into the living room to see my shining ornament light up the room. I heard the door slam shut and it startled me. My golden, shiny brown hair fell in front of my eyes, as I turned swiftly around towards the door. Father had just come home from the barn, and he was sweating as bad as Valentine was that day we fired Mr. Woods. My mom poked her head out from behind the kitchen door, said hello, and asked if the you-know-what was ready. I looked at my mother with a questioning face, but she didn’t seem to notice. “It’s coming along. Why, Isabella, you look so happy today. What’s gotten into you?” “Tomorrow’s Christmas, Daddy. Don’t tell me you already forgot.” “ How can a man forget about Christmas?” He gave me a hug and I went to sit down on the floral couch. I sank down about a foot and positioned myself into a comfortable stance. Just staring at that exquisite Douglas fir made me feel warm inside. The smell of the turkey filled my insides with hunger. The light snow falling outside was a happy sign. It meant that tomorrow, I could go sledding, and not that wussy sledding down a small hill. I’m talking down a ravine, into a bed of soft, cushioning pile of snow below. Apparently, I thought these joyous thoughts for over an hour, just watching each individual snowflake fall to the ground, because I was awoken from my daydreaming by a very anxious mother. She really wanted me to try her new mixture of gravy. She’s a cook. And a good one, obviously, because she sells cookbooks to the neighbors for a small living, and they love them. I’m a very picky eater, so if I even so much as liked it a little, then she would add it into her next cookbook. I can’t wait! Tomorrow’s the best day of the year! And this year it’s going to be the best day ever. I wonder what my mom was talking about when she said this Christmas was going to be special…maybe I’m getting a new church dress, or my room will be painted and redone…but Mother said that this is a special Christmas, and a new dress isn’t THAT special, at least not to me. Well I guess I’ll find out tomorrow morning… I hadn’t even realized that I was eating with a mother that wanted to know how every bite tasted of her meal. She stared at me with the up most anticipation, when I finally realized that I hadn’t been paying attention to what I was eating. “Its delicious, Mother! I loved it all!” I lied. I didn’t know if it was delicious or not, I hadn’t even been paying attention. It could have tasted like a rock and I didn’t even notice. Oh well, it didn’t make a difference anyway. The neighbors would buy my mothers cookbooks if all the recipes where supposed to be for the horses. They’d buy them just to be nice. I helped Mother wash and dry the dishes, and I could tell that she was constantly looking over at me. Was she trying to pry my feelings out of by stares? So, as to give her satisfaction, I told her how I couldn’t wait for tomorrow. We engaged in a conversation about Christmas, which to her was just talking about the Christmas “feast”. That was basically her cooking all day and watching me admiring my Christmas presents. Doesn’t sound too exciting, but its our family together. Me on the floor or armchair, trying on my new clothes, my dad drinking coffee on the couch beside me, and my mother talking about how she thinks this year she’s going to sell the most cookboNVM! ok omg this friggen site wont let me post the whole friggen thing! grrr.... o well how do u like it so far? lol more

Resolved Question: Need a Name For My Cooking (OSCAR-THEME) Raffle Basket?

Previously I asked for some ideas for what to include in my cooking raffle basket. Our annual auction is themed around the oscars, and every basket has to tie in with the theme. Since I am doing a cooking basket, I thought about naming it....Babettes (Barbecue) Feast OR Babettes Feast-barbecue style....and including an indoor grill, apron, cookbooks, a cooking class, utensils etc. Can anyone think of another creative name? I can't find anything online that has the name Babettes Feast on it (I guess I could include just the DVD). Any ideas welcome more

Resolved Question: Allergic to Yeast.. any good cookbooks out there??

I recently found out that I have an high allergy to yeast and corn and low allergy to wheat and low to medium allergy to rice... i did find a book called "feast without yeast" which covers everything plus soy (also on the low side) and dairy (used to be but still think i am even tho i can only eat some cheeses). is the book any good ?? i do have a gluten free cookbook with some yeast free recipes and "cooking free" by carol fenster (covers gluten/wheat, dairy egg and sugar-free stuff) for the dairy and eggs over a year ago (used to be egg whites but now its the yolk haha) any other recommended books would be appreciated!! thanks!! more

Resolved Question: Is Nigella Lawson's cookbook 'Feast' worth getting?

Resolved Question: I am looking for a cookbook called Forum Feasts (Author and Editor Charlotte Adams). Hardback spiral bound?

I am looking for a cookbook called Forum Feasts (Author and Editor Charlotte Adams). It is white and green, hardbound with spiral binding. Some pages of my Forum Feasts are missing but I remember it also says Forum Quorum. It was originally put together by homemakers in New Jersey who shared their culinary secrets to help the Forum School, which in turn when purchased, the funds went to help emotionally disturbed children in New Jersey. more