May Calendar

[Susie D]

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~ Pamper Your Mom on Mother’s Day
Pamper your mother with a luxurious, relaxing spa day at home on Mother’s Day. Present your mother with a beautiful gift basket of special bath and beauty products that you’ve made yourself from recipes posted on the food .com website. Your mom will be thrilled with the wonderful gifts, and she’ll be twice as proud that you made them yourself. Visit our monthly topic in the ToGo/Camping/Picnic forum for suggestions and ideas for preparing a wonderful gift basket for your mom, grandmother, sister, aunt, friend, or even for yourself.

~ Mother’s Day in Mexico
Mother’s day is now a warm and loving holiday, but who would have thought that at one time it was the center of debate? Come enjoy the special day in the Mexican Cooking Forum


For a variety of reasons, garlic's popularity began to wane in the beginning of the 20th century, and World War II primarily found garlic only in restaurants and gourmet shops - but now garlic is used by most cooks these days in a variety of dishes, from appetizers, dips, soups, main meals.
Oils can be flavored with garlic cloves. These infused oils are used to season all categories of vegetables, meats, breads,pasta and salads.
Great used in marinades as well so come and visit us and find some great recipes and ideas right here at TOTM

Mushrooms add an interesting flavour and texture to a variety of global cuisine, There are literally hundreds of different types from the usual cultivated button mushrooms that you get in your Supermarket to the gourmet mushrooms that can be purchased fresh or dried.
There are loads of different kinds of funky recipes right here on food.com so come and explore with us and find recipes that you can’t wait to try - we are just a CLICK away - so come and join the fun!

~ Cinco de Mayo!
Cinco de Mayo is translated in English as the fifth of May. What, where and why is this day celebrated? Come and visit the Mexican Cooking Forum for a short history lesson as well as sharing your plans for celebration.

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~ Inside Out Challenge
The Cooking Photo forum is challenging you to take and compare photos taken inside and out no matter the weather or light.

~ Strawberries
Spring has finally sprung and summer is well on its way to making it to everyone. What better way could there be to celebrate this happy, sunny season than enjoying some succulent and colourful strawberries?! If you love this fruit and would like to find out how to use it in tasty creations, come and join us in the Spain/Portugal forum as we cook with this yummy ingredient.

~ Welcome to Qatar! May 2013
Join the NA/ME Forum as we visit Qatar & search for Qatari recipes to add to Food.com!

~ Garden Party in Diabetic Forum
Come join us to dance into May and celebrate this wonderful month:

~ Name that Ingredient
Coming soon to the Cooking Games Forum is a new tag game! You'll find Dictionary Recipe Tag easy to play and it utilizes the Dictionary feature of Food.com to find recipes. Dive into the dictionary!

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Fun in the contest and Events Forum

~ Variety is the Spice of Life Event 2013
Basically we're all the same, but different! What strikes your fancy might not suit me! For this event, we'll all make the same recipes ~ with variations! For this event, we have chosen ten (10), count 'em, ten (10) recipes for you to choose from! All these recipes have multiple variations for you to select from and none of them have any reviews or photos as yet. In fact, for this event you can make all the variations if you so choose! We've selected various different courses. So, you can make one, two, or all ! The choice is yours.
Tag one, or as many recipes that you’ll make and review, and report back to the forum topic by May 31st.

~ My Food Odyssey
Looking for something out of this world to participate in?
Join us on a magical journey around the globe, courtesy of our new Magic Carpet.
The My Food Odyssey adventure will be wondrous & whimsical, educational & enjoyable and we will be visiting hundreds of amazing destinations over the next few years.
We'll be visiting 6 countries every two months and we would LOVE to see you there!

and keep your eyes peeled for not one, but TWO more special events coming this month in the Contest and Events Forum!

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