peas at a party

Here’s the round up of mango recipes from the Cinco de Mango event.  Wow, what a selection from bread pudding to shrimp tacos.  I’ve already put a bunch of them on my Try Soon list.

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In honor of Cinco de Mayo, the National Mango Board is sponsoring a Cinco de Mango blog event, hosted by the generous Chris at Mele Cotte.

This dish received the highest honor at a Derby party this past weekend.  As I joined a group at one of the tables, one (delightful) lady remarked, “This mango salsa is wonderful.”  [...]

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Blogger Chris of Mele Cotte is hosting a food blog “event”:  Cooking to Combat Cancer, II.  The event celebrates the seventh anniversary of her own cancer diagnosis, honors two friends with recent diagnoses, and is in memory of her grandmother who was struck down by pancreatic cancer.  All of the recipes will be there—probably tomorrow—for you [...]

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Passover begins today at sundown.  Haroset (also charoset or charoses) is the one symbolic food from the ritual Passover plate that usually becomes part of the meal.  It is a reminder of the mortar used to make bricks when the Jews were slaves in Egypt.  At one time it was ground to more resemble the mortar.
Today there [...]

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There are moments that just cry out for comfort in a pan.  (Such as when there are contractors in your kitchen?)  For those times, this is a house favorite.  By squeezing out a lot of the traditional fat in this dish, it is almost an Anytime Food.
This lighter cousin to lasagna and sister to Baked Ziti [...]

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