One batch makes enough to fill an empty 8 ounce feeder, with a little extra left over to pour into any feeder that is low.

From Eat, Shrink & Be Merry cookbook - the flavors of Mexico without the swine flu!!

The yellowish mint dipping sauce regularly served at Indian restaurants in the UK to go with popadoms and tandoori style dishes.

Chef Giada De Laurentiis prepared this on her show “Everyday Italian.” The episode featured a “Polenta Party” but this light cake sounded so much like it could be a great addition to Thanksgiving or Christmas menus that I wanted to get it down and post it

Imagine a candlelit dinner for 2 in a beautiful Italian countryside villa.. the freshest gourmet spinach & feta chicken sausage, braised artichoke hearts ladled over a creamy parm penne. Magnífico!

This yummy Italian Creme Cake combines coconut cake with cream cheese frosting, finished with chopped pecans.

Originating in Rome, stracciatella is an Italian egg drop soup. The word stracciatella comes from the Italian verb stracciare meaning to shread. When the soup is done, the ingredients look like tiny little shreds or ribbons in the broth.

Perfect marriage of pasta, sausage, and a mild cheese sauce! Yum-o! From a 1984 McCalls Cooking School recipe.

This hearty, meatless soup was popular in Italy during World War II because of the scarcity of meat. My aunt, America Vincenzi, taught me how to make this soup which she learned from her mother-in-law in Italy.

Rich and creamy cheese cake which easy to make and very tasty, the downside is it has about a billion calories. I took this recipe from a bbc webstite

From the Cafe Sunflower cookbook

We’re back in the Caribbean Isles with this interesting blend of sweet & hot & everything Jamaica! Tender Atlantic salmon fillets will take you there ~ ˜¼ ~

Using the freshest ingredients will really make this Spaghetti con Gamberetti e Rucola taste amazing!

Delicious, dead easy and with ingredients most of us have around the house!

A South African dessert named after Jan Ellis, a famous Springbok rugby player

Japjae is easily one of the most well known Korean stir fry dishes. The combination of sweet potato starch noodles, mushrooms, meat, and vegetables is great as a main dish, side dish, or stand alone meal.

Adapted from Australian Womans Weekly

(taken from the 1953 edition of the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book)

Love the fresh ingredients this recipe offers. Makes a great appetizer or even a main dish

This is very tasty and spicy; you will lick all ten fingers!