On Christmas Eve, Feast Italian-Style The Feast of Seven Fishes, an Italian Christmas Eve tradition, calls for serving seven individual seafood dishes. Instead, I invite friends to share this Feast of Seven Fishes, a colorful dish which includes seven kinds of fish and seafood.

Warm Yourself with Pumpkin Soup With its autumn orange, this basic pumpkin soup adds color and nutrition to your diet.

Thanksgiving Preparation Timeline and Tips This year may just be the year to hone your holiday cooking and party planning skills. Instead of relying on grocery store prepared foods or catering companies to supplement your holiday meal, consider the money that can be saved by selecting some great recipes with a well defined timetable of tasks.

October and Pumpkins Go Hand-In-Hand What could make a more delectable (and appropriate) seasonal meal on a chilly autumn night than a bowl of hearty pumpkin soup?

Buffet Table Tips for People with Diabetes Eating the right foods to control your blood sugar means being prepared and planning ahead. If you choose wisely and watch how much you eat at a buffet, you can have a delicious meal and feel good too.

Quick Pre-Chistmas Dinners Eating well from now until Christmas is as important as gift giving. To make sitting down to nice dinners easy, try these speedy dishes.

Treat Mom to a Healthful Mother's Day Brunch Treating Mom to a special home-cooked breakfast is a great opportunity to create family teamwork. These oatmeal pancakes are not only delicious but healthy, too, and their preparation is no more time-consuming than more standard fare.

Celebrate the Foods of Mexico Here in the States, Cinco de Mayo has become a day to celebrate Latino culture. And in America, culture, of course, means food. Learn about a good way to start a celebration of Cinco de Mayo and the cuisine of Mexico.

Ham How-To: Essentials for Easy, Elegant Easter Ham Along with pastel-colored eggs and baskets of goodies, Easter in America has always meant ham. But aside from upholding tradition, there are other reasons for making ham the centerpiece of your holiday table.

Saint Patrick's Day Greens It can be fun to get into the spirit of St. Patrick's Day. Some, of course, go the whole route with dyed green food, from beer to bagels, but you don't need to resort to dyes to find delicious, healthy green foods.

Tip Your Hat to the Cabbage Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." And in recent years, the cooks in Ireland have begun to agree with him. Cooking has enjoyed a major renaissance in Ireland and fine dining now is the rule, rather than the exception.

New Irish Cooking On St. Patrick's Day, the air will be rich with the aromas of cabbage, corned beef, crusty Irish soda bread and perhaps a stew studded with potatoes and carrots. These traditional Irish dishes, nostalgically enjoyed by Irish-Americans and other Americans feeling Irish for the day, are a far cry from what is on many Irish tables today.

A St. Patrick's Day Salad If you think food that celebrates St. Patrick's Day means corned beef and cabbage with boiled potatoes, it's time to update your thinking about Irish cooking.

Bake Your Valentine a Surprise For Valentine's Day, I have moved from producing elaborate candlelight dinners to sharing simpler culinary seductions. This year, honoring the tradition of red for romance, I am making a less-traditional fruit-based dish.