European Holiday/Event Recipes

"From about.com . These slightly sweet yeast rolls are blessed on Holy Saturday in the traditional zegen Easter basket and are served up on Easter morning."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, ground cardamom...

"A wonderful Austrian pastry, allthough not as famous as it's cousin, the Apple Strudel. To make the dough used to be a difficult process; it needed to be rolled out so thin that you could read a newspaper through it! Luckily, today we have puff pastry available; to make a strudel is easy as pie. Use pecans or hazelnuts instead of walnuts and whatever..."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, fresh white breadcrumbs...

"The caramel topping gives this tart a wonderfull flavor. It can be made in a tart mold with removable bottom or a regular pie plate. Use a ready made pie crust or check out "Recipe #72078" for an easy pie dough. Either way, it is sweet and delicious and looks great, sure to impress your guests. Serve with lightly sweetened whipping cream..."

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Ingredients: ready-made pie crusts, granulated sugar...

"This is a very rich and creamy, non-tomatoey, (even though it includes some tomato), baked spaghetti. It's my most-requested recipe from friends. I gave the ingredients a lot of thought before preparing it the first time and it came out just right -- I've never changed it over the two years I've been making it. Reasonable substitutions won't hurt this..."

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Ingredients: cooking spray, cream of celery soup...

"Rich Guinness Cake with whiskey infused fruit - from a recipe from my Grandmother who was chef in large house in Ireland in 1930's."

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Ingredients: eggs, Guinness stout...

"For the seeded topping, generally use 8 tablespoons any combination of seeds/pepper/garlic/onion mixture to 1 tablespoon kosher or sea salt."

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Ingredients: cumin seeds, fresh ground black pepper...

"One preparation that French country cooks use to great advantage is spiced and seasoned salt. While salt and pepper shakers do appear on French dinner tables, they are rarely used. Gallic cooks can be deeply offended by guests who season their food at the table. They believe in seasoning it correctly in the kitchen, during the cooking. From the book..."

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Ingredients: cloves, dried marjoram...

"...from Gwyneth Paltrow's "My Father's Daughter""

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Ingredients: lobsters, extra virgin olive oil...

"Enjoy this delicious vegetarian Paté with slices of fresh crusty baguette and a Glass of chilled Muscadet! From the book" The French Farmhouse Kitchen" by Eileen Reece. Cooking time is chilling time."

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Ingredients: powdered thyme, onions...

"Caraway seeds are very popular in Austria and feature in many recipes, mostly in root vegetables, cabbage and bread. The fragrant seeds blend wonderfully with the sweetness of the carrots and make an excellent side dish to roasts, turkey and game birds. Turnips, parsnips and rutabagas can be prepared and glazed in the same way, adjusting the cooking..."

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Ingredients: pepper, parsley, salt...

"If I was making these vegan "tasting cookies" for company, I'd use a good white port, but I've made them with regular tawny and they were delicious as well. They're not overly sweet, but great to put on a cheese tray with fruit and crackers after dinner."

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Ingredients: fennel seeds, lemon zest...