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Mango Orange Salsa

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Haroset

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments

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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