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We just returned from our big Mediterranean cruise/20th anniversary celebration, and on the cruise ship the dining room served, every evening, a plate of assorted cheeses & fruit with a few little slices of date bread and some lightly sweetened walnuts. Some people had them as an appetizer...

I know many people hate the stuff, but I love it, and like to make fresh salsa and chili and guacamole quite often. I'd like to know how I can keep some on hand (I know I should just plant some in the house - that would solve the problem). I had a brainstorm, however, and I wonder if it might...

On one of his shows on PBS recently, I saw him make a trifle that included strawberries and Walker's shortbread cookies. It may be the Fast Food My Way program. Does anyone have the book (maybe the recipe is in there) or remember the strawberry trifle he made? It looked very simple, but good...

I suppose I should ask my Dr. this question when I go next week, but they are normally so salt-phobic that I don't know if I would get a proper answer. Some people's blood pressure is affected by salt quite a bit, and some are not. Does that go hand in hand with the fluid retention or not? In...

Does anyone know if there is a substitute for a merliton? Are they anythining like any of the other pears I see in the store? I've never seen one in the produce department, and I'd like to try a crown roast recipe I saw on the Food Network site, made with merliton stuffing. Thanks, BC

Does anyone know if there is a marked difference between the two? I have an old family recipe for a Romanian nut roll that uses fresh cake yeast, but I have never used it - only the dry stuff. I happen to have some new dry yeast, but don't know if it can be substituted and if so, in what...