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Famous Recipes in the New York Times

The New York Times Food and Dining Section talked about Famous Recipes today in this article about the rise of populism in cooking.

In part the article said this:

Food for the People, Whipped Up by the People

By JULIA MOSKIN

Published: December 27, 2006

IF you wanted to appear in a food magazine or publish a cookbook in 2006, to star in a television cooking show or increase the traffic on your Web site, your best move was clear: don’t be a chef.

Food Network

DOES HER OWN CHOPPING Paula Deen, above, brought Southern home cooking to the Food Network. “The Taste of Home Cookbook” is one of the best-selling cookbooks of the year.

It was the year the people took back the food. Expertise was out: the Food Network edged aside chefs like Mario Batali to make room for home-cooking queens like Paula Deen, Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray. The most popular new food magazines and cookbooks were collections of recipes from real home cooks (or those who pretended to be), often stamped with the irresistible words “home-style,” “country” and “everyday.”

And one of the Web’s most popular independent food blogs, according to data collected by Alexa, a Web information company, was an undiscriminating one titled World Famous Recipes. Bill Austin of Scottsdale, Ariz., collects recipes and recipe links at famousrecipes.wordpress.com, presenting them unedited and without comment. The site’s motto: “Famous and not so famous recipes — who are you to decide? Who am I to decide?”

Today’s home cooks want to decide for themselves, or learn from others like them.

“When you have the Internet, who needs cookbooks?” said Amy Cisneros, an avid cook from San Antonio. “I look at all the different recipes, and then I make it my way.”

… More at the NY Times site


Christmas Recipes
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Christmas Holiday Quiz

Christmas Holiday Quiz,

answers are at the end of the quiz.

1. What is the biggest selling Christmas single of all time?
2. What was Scrooge's first name?
3. What carol contains the line "O tidings of comfort and joy"?
4. Name the three reindeer whose names begin with a "D"?
5. In what city did Miracle on 34th Street take place?
6. In The Night Before Christmas, where were the stockings hung?
7. What color is the Grinch?
8. In the movie The Santa Clause, who starred as the substitute Santa
Claus?
9. What holiday drink contains sugar, milk, and eggs?
10. What popular bite-sized chocolate candy comes wrapped in red
and green foil at Christmas?
11. What one reindeer is never mentioned in "The Night Before
Christmas"?
12. Name the two reindeer whose name begins with a "C"?
13. What carol contains the word "Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la"?
14. What glittery bits of metal are hung on a Christmas tree?
15. What were Frosty's last words?
16. On what street did a Santa Claus miracle occur?
17. Counting Rudolph, how many reindeer are there?
18. What did Rudolph never get to join in?
19. What three characters sing "The Chipmunk Song"?
20. Traditionally, does the oldest or youngest family member open
the first present?
21. What holiday film annually appears on television more than 300 times?
22. What is Frosty's nose made of?
23. What country started the tradition of exchanging gifts?
24. Name the reindeer whose name begins with a "B"?
25. Visions of what dance in children's heads?
26. How many times is the name of Santa Claus used in "The Night
Before Christmas"?
27. What is the most popular tree topper?
28. What snack is often left out for Santa?
29. What cola company was known for its ads featuring a big, smiling
Santa?
30. What men's grooming appliance became a sled for Santa in
commercials of the sixties?
31. What do most elves wear on the tips of their shoes?
32. After red and green, what are the two most popular Christmas
colors?
33. What two words are normally pre-printed on gift tags?
34. Where was Mommy when she was kissing Santa Claus?
35. Where did Santa land his sleigh in "The Night Before Christmas"?
36. What is the name of the first reindeer Santa calls in The Night
Before Christmas?



Answers:
1."White Christmas"
2.Ebenezer
3. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
4. Dasher, Donder, Dancer
5. New York
6. By the chimney
7. Green
8. Tim Allen
9. Eggnog
10. Hershey's Kisses
11. Rudolph
12. Comet and Cupid
13. "Deck the Halls"
14. Tinsel
15. "I'll be back again someday"
16.34th
17. Nine
18. Reindeer games
19. Alvin, Theodore, and Simon
20. The youngest child
21. It's a Wonderful Life
22. A button
23. Italy
24. Blitzen
25. Sugarplums
26. None
27. Angel
28. Cookies
29. Coca-Cola
30. Norelco Electric Shaver
31. Bells
32. Silver and gold
33. To, From
34. Underneath the mistletoe
35. Upon the roof
36. Dasher

Oscar Wilde Quotes
Oscar Levant Quotes
Henny Youngman Quotes
Quotes

Merry Christmas From Around The World

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas From Around The World - Famous Quotes Famous Sayings Christmas Quotes Christmas Sayings

Christmas Quotes - Christmas Sayings - Consipracy of Love

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
- Hamilton Wright Mabi


Christmas Quotes - Christmas Sayings - Christmas Sentiments

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
- Francis C. Farley


Christmas Quotes - Christmas Sayings - God Bless Us Every One

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!
- Charles Dickens


How Merry Christmas is said in many languages from around the world

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Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees

Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees

African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats

Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden

Arabic: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

Argentine: Feliz Navidad

Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand

Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun

Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal

Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!

Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha

Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce

Brazilian: Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo

Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat

Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo

Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!

Chile: Feliz Navidad

Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan

Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito

Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo

Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth

Corsian: Pace e salute

Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo

Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi

Croatian: Sretan Bozic

Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok

Danish: Glædelig Jul

Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak

Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
or Zalig Kerstfeast

English: Merry Christmas

Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!

Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon

Estonian: Ruumsaid juulup|hi

Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!

Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad

Finnish: Hyvaa joulua

Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar

French: Joyeux Noel

Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!

Galician: Bo Nada

Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!

German: Froehliche Weihnachten

Greek: Kala Christouyenna!

Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!

Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka

Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova

Hindi: Shub Naya Baras

Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!

Hawaian: Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!

Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket

Icelandic: Gledileg Jol

Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal

Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat

Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.

Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie

Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags

Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha

Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!

Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!

Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto

Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus

Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu

Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar

Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik

Maltese: LL Milied Lt-tajjeb

Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa

Maori: Meri Kirihimete

Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh

Navajo: Merry Keshmish

Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul

Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado

Papiamento: Bon Pasco

Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu

Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!

Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo

Philipines: Maligayan Pasko!

Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie

Portuguese:Feliz Natal

Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha

Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua

Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn

Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!

Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele

Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom

Sami: Buorrit Juovllat

Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou

Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou

Serbian: Hristos se rodi

Slovakian: Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce

Sami: Buorrit Juovllat

Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou

Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh

Serb-Croatian: Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina

Serbian: Hristos se rodi. Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa

Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok

Slovene: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto

Spanish: Feliz Navidad

Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År

Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon

Tami: Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal

Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!

Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai

Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym

Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho

Vietnamese: Chung Mung Giang Sinh

Welsh: Nadolig Llawen

Yugoslavian: Cestitamo Bozic

Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

Christmas Trifle Recipe s

Christmas Recipes - Trifle Recipes

English Christmas Trifle Recipe and Santa's Christmas Trifle Recipe

This is quite good and includes the two essential ingredients:

English Christmas Trifle Recipe

This one is "Santa's Christmas Trifle Recipe" but you can add sherry if you want to.

Santa's Christmas Trifle Recipe

Christmas Recipes - Pumpkin Pancakes

Christmas Recipes

Christmas Recipes - Pumpkin Pancakes

2 cups biscuit mix
2 TBSP packed light brown sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1-1/2 cups (12-oz. can) evaporated milk
1 tsp. ground allspice
1/2 cup solid-pack pumpkin
2 TBSP vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla

In a large mixer bowl, combine biscuit mix, sugar, cinnamon and allspice.
Add evaporated milk, pumpkin, oil, eggs and vanilla; beat until smooth. Pour
1/4 to 1/2 cup batter (depending on size of pancake desired) onto heated and
lightly greased griddle. Cook until top surface is bubbly and edges are dry.
Turn; cook until golden. Keep pancakes warm. Serve with syrup or honey.

Christmas Recipes - Pumpkin Pancakes

HAPPY HOLIDAYS DOES NOT MEAN MERRY CHRISTMAS ON AMERICAN DAD SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, ON FOX

AMERICAN DAD
Air Date: Sunday, December 17, 2006
Time Slot: 8:30 PM-9:00 PM EST on FOX
Episode Title: (DAD-214) "The Best Christmas Story Never"

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Christmas Recipes


PA: Viewer discretion is advised.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS DOES NOT MEAN MERRY CHRISTMAS ON AMERICAN DAD SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, ON FOX

Lisa Kudrow Guest-Stars When an injunction prevents Langley Falls from lighting their annual Christmas tree, Stan blames secular non-believers for ruining his favorite holiday. With Stans holiday spirit at an all-time low, the Ghost of Christmas Past (Lisa Kudrow) visits him and tries to show him the true meaning of Christmas. However, Stan is convinced that Christmas can be saved by changing the outcome of Vietnam, but finds that changing the past only dramatically changes the future in The Best Christmas Story Never episode of AMERICAN DAD Sunday, Dec. 17 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (DAD-214) (TV-14 D, L) Voice Cast: Seth MacFarlane as Stan Smith, Roger the Alien and Franz; Wendy Schaal as Francine Smith; Rachael MacFarlane as Hayley; Scott Grimes as Steve; and Dee Bradley Baker as Klaus.

Guest Cast: Lisa Kurdow as the Ghoast of Christmas Past; Rick Hoffman as Caroller #1 and John Hinkley; Chris Diamantopolous as Donald Sutherland and Robert Deniro.

Funny Jokes
Famous Quotes

Santa's Secret Wish

On Christmas Eve, a young boy with light in his eyes
Looked deep into Santa's, to Santa's surprise
And said as he sat on Santa's broad knee,



"I want your secret. Tell it to me."
He leaned up and whispered in Santa's good ear
"How do you do it year after year?"



"I want to know how, as you travel about,
Giving gifts here and there, you never run out.
How is it Dear Santa, that in your pack of toys



You have plenty for all of the world's girls and boys?
Stays so full, never empties, as you make your way
>From rooftop to rooftop, to homes large and small,
>From nation to nation, reaching them all?"





And Santa smiled kindly and said to the boy,
"Don't ask me hard questions. Don't you want a toy?"
But the child shook his head, and Santa could see



That he needed the answer. "Now listen to me,"
He told that small boy with the light in his eyes,
"My secret will make you sadder and wise.



"The truth is that my sack is magic inside
It holds millions of toys for my Christmas Eve ride.
But although I do visit each girl and each boy



I don't always leave them a gaily wrapped toy
Some homes are hungry, some homes are sad,
Some homes are desperate, some homes are bad.





Some homes are broken, and the children there grieve.
Those homes I visit, but what should I leave?
"My sleigh is filled with the happiest stuff,



But for homes where despair lives toys aren't enough.
So I tiptoe in, kiss each girl and boy,
And I pray with them that they'll be given the joy



Of the spirit of Christmas, the spirit that lives
In the heart of the dear child who gets not, but gives.
"If only God hears me and answers my prayer,



When I visit next year, what I will find there
Are homes filled with peace, and with giving, and love
And boys and girls gifted with light from above.





It's a very hard task, my smart little brother,
to give toys to some, and to give prayers to others.
But the prayers are the best gifts, the best gifts indeed,



For God has a way of meeting each need.
"That's part of the answer. The rest, my dear youth,
is that my sack is magic. And that is the truth.



In my sack I carry on Christmas Eve Day
More love than a Santa could e'er give away.
The sack never empties of love, or of joys



Cause inside it are prayers, and hope. Not just toys
The more that I give, the fuller it seems,
Because giving is my way of fulfilling dreams.





"And do you know something? You've got a sack, too.
It's as magic as mine, and it's inside of you.
It never gets empty, it's full from the start.
It's the center of lights, and love. It's your heart



And if on this Christmas you want to help me,
Don't be so concerned with the gifts 'neath your tree.
Open that sack called your heart and share
Your joy, your friendship, your wealth, your care."



The light in the small boy's eyes was glowing.
"Thanks for your secret. I've got to be going."
"Wait, little boy," Said Santa, "don't go.



Will you share? Will you help? Will you use what you know?"
And just for a moment the small boy stood still,
Touched his heart with his small hand and whispered, "I will."


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Carnival of the Recipes - Chicken Recipes Edition

Christmas Recipes - Chicken for Christmas?

The Chicken Recipes Edition of the Carnival of the Recipes is hosted at Chicken Recipes this week by Cardiff Story Lady Thelly
Last week the Carnival was hosted at World Famous Recipes and can be found at Carnival of the Recipes

A newcomer to the Carnival submitted a Christmas Recipe for Chicken Scampi