Something my family used to make around halloween was a mummy calzone! It was like a regular calzone except it looked like a wrapped up mummy with black olives as the eyes. My mom is the one who always makes this dish, but sometimes I like to help! The mummy calzone would either be served as a main dish or as an appetizer. Sometimes I would dip it in warm  marinara sauce. 

    The ingredients for the mummy calzone were refrigerated pizza dough,c1 large egg, black olives, shredded mozzarella cheese, cooked ground sausage, pepperoni, bacon, and pineapple. 

   Whenever I ate this I always really liked it! It tasted like Hawaiian pizza with bacon and more marinara sauce than normal. I remember my brother loving it too and always asking my mom for more! With this dish we would usually have ceasar salad and a big glass of milk. We don’t make this dish anymore, but maybe next year around Halloween I will make it for my family. I would like to try adding some sweet peppers to it and maybe putting some black olives inside the mummy. 

Full ingredient list (the way my mom makes it): ham, ground pork, a seasoning called sazon goya, garlic, onion, bell peppers, chopped celery, mixed vegetables, spanish olives, and cilantro.

To me, it tastes very spice-y (not hot, just full of spice). It’s hard to identify the flavor of the dish because it’s just a mix of flavor and seasonings, but it’s savory and delicious. It tastes kind of like a latin american version of chilli, to be honest, but it is drier. 

My Grandma used to make it (I think she still might, but I don’t live near her so I haven’t had it in a while). My mom makes it now. When we make our own food for Thanksgiving or Christmas (as opposed to going out for dinner like we did a couple times in the past), this dish is always included. Everyone loves it. There’s never any complaints about it, not even from me (I hate olives). I don’t recall a time where my mom ever failed with this dish. What’s marvelous about it is that the olives, for me, add something amazing to the palette of flavor. It’s a side dish, eaten with the array of other holiday foods, but it could also be a main dish with white rice. My mother made rice to eat it with for Thanksgiving leftovers, but only she ate the rice with it. My sister and I preferred to eat it with the other Thanksgiving foods because the flavors combined perfectly. 

As opposed to the image, we don't add lime to this dish. Also, my mom uses green bell peppers, not red. Other than that, this looks exactly like how she cooks it.

This salad consists of romaine lettuce, orange or red peppers, chicken mixed with Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce, cheddar cheese, green onion, corn (cooked optional), black beans, tomatoes, avocado, and topped with ranch or dressing of your choice. This main dish salad is always refreshing to eat. The peppers and romaine add a nice crunch balanced with the rest of the ingredients. If you want an extra crunch you can also top it off with crushed tortilla chips or tortilla strips.There are different ways you can cook the chicken as well. One of the most popular ways we cook the chicken is on the grill. After seasoning the chicken breasts and spreading some BBQ sauce over it my grandpa would put it on the grill. After cooking, we cut the chicken into slices and add more BBQ sauce. Another option is to get a rotisserie chicken and pick that apart, getting all the white meat out. Then you can shred it and cover it in BBQ sauce. This salad has a burst of flavor in every bite and keeps your taste buds happy and active!

One of my favorite things about this salad is that you can personalize it to fit everyone's needs. In my family we have people who are vegetarians, vegans, and people who will eat anything! This gives everyone the chance to add meat, put no meat on, leave the cheese off, add extra cheese, and do whatever fits their dietary needs! It is also very simple and straightforward so the whole family can make it. My family often has this at big family reunions at my grandparents lakehouse. We put each topping in their own separate bowl and serve up buffet style. It is the perfect way to fuel your body after swimming all day. 

My Great grandmother lived in Germany and when she moved to America she brought this recipe with her. She would make these for my grandpa which then got passed down to my dad. We love to make this recipe when we have people visiting. Anyone that tries these German Pancakes loves them. This recipe hasn't changed since my great-grandmother made it, however one time I accidentally put salt instead of sugar (whoops).

Everyone in my family adores dumplings, and not only do our dumpling nights provide a delicious meal, but we also get to have meaningful family time as we sit at the dining table together intricately folding dumplings in little crescent shapes and sealing them by pinching ruffles along the edge. Dumplings are a traditional Chinese food and making them during special occasions has been something passed down for generations on both sides of my parents' families. They are an extremely significant part of my family’s culture.

It tastes sweet and soft, and the amazing thing about it is that all the fruit together in your mouth combines so well. You get a little bit of everything. 

I believe my grandma used to make this fruit salad and then passed down the recipe to my mom. It's been around on the dinner table for a good 13 years. 
We don’t usually make it with pineapple, we usually just stick with apples, peaches, cherries, and pears.

We make it around Christmas, and it’s special because we are always excited to eat it and we eat it out of cups instead of a bowl because we love eating it together while we’re talking. 

My mom has made this fruit salad countless times and every time it tastes the same. She never does it in a way that tastes bad. 

It is made primarily from boiled potatoes, eggs, and flour. People will eat them with all different types of things but we never added much to it. It is very bland and doesn't have much flavor; it kind of had a gummy texture. I never really enjoyed them myself but they were my great grandpa's favorite thing to make with the family.

Pozole . Pork broth, pork shoulder, hominy, cilantro, garlic, radish, lime.

This dish is a family favorite. We eat this around the time of winter because it is a nice warm stew and it is a family tradition.  My grandmother cooks it better, but I don’t tell my mom. When the stew is made with pork it is called Pozole Rojo, which means red pozole. The word “pozole” comes from the Nahuatl language and may mean hominy or frothy. My grandmother speaks Nahuatl. This dish is the most wonderful meal or dish you could ever have in your system because it lightens somebody's day or night and keeps us warm while eating it. Its traditional and a nicer tongue burner. 

The picture I found online was similar but not completely the same. Our apple crisp has the the crust spread all over the top of the apple mixture and there is almost no apple showing. The chucks of the toppings are much finer on our apple crisp than the photo.The apple crisp is always made by mom and she got this recipe when she was working at bed and breakfast. A lady who stayed at the B&B some of my moms scones that she makes some time for breakfast. The lady asked for the recipe for the scones and them my mom asked for a recipe for a she could make desert and she gave her this recipe. Now she uses this recipe for all the special occasions and all the holidays. My whole family family loves it except for my older brother because he hate both pies and crisps. We eat the apple crisp with vanilla ice cream. I cant think of a time that the recipe has gone wrong it always comes out just right and its never burnt. 

My family makes and eats it all the time, there’s no real occasions we do it for. We usually set up an assembly line. My dad cuts the dough into pieces, I squish and roll them out, and my mom fills and forms them. The custom is to make at least half as many more than you need. There’s a little easy trick to boiling them. You plop in maybe 10 into a pot of boiling water, stirring every so often to prevent stickage. Once the water starts to boil again, you pour maybe a half a cup of cold water (we just fill one of the cups around the house my parents are very lax with measurements) so it stops boiling. Then when it boils again, repeat. THen when its starts boiling for the third time, they’re ready. Because it’s a family tradition in its own right, we all love to eat them. It’s really simple, it’s actually pretty hard to dislike it, with one exception. My parents, and by extension any native Chinese person likes the ginger to be in pieces, which if you’re sane, is like having pungent landmines in your dumpling. So if it's ground ginger, then they’re perfect. My parents have since started using powdered ginger, which I very much appreciate. 

Where it gets fancy is the variations. Because the dish is so simple, you can put in a lot of add ons, like celery for the vegetables, or bits of shrimp or scallops. You can even use different meats like ground beef.

Everyone in my family likes springerles as far as I know. My mom and grandma make enough for everyone we see at Christmas to get some and there usually aren’t too many leftovers. I think the only time they ever turned out poorly is once my mom used some sort of flour substitute and people weren’t as fond of those. That was probably the only time the recipe has ever changed. They usually have some sort of fun holiday design on the front or are cut in some cool way. This varies every year depending on who is doing most of the work. If I were doing them, they'd probably just be regular circles, but if it's my mom or grandma they'll get super creative with it and have certain presses that will make cool imprints or shapes. Without them, Christmas just wouldn’t be the same.

What is Papaya salad? Papaya salad is a traditional food passed from generation to generation across Thailand and other Asian countries.

How the Papaya salad tasted and how it was made? Fresh, crunchy, a little tart with an air of sweetness.Thailand's famous green papaya salad teases your taste buds with a Exciting combination of spicy, sweet, salty, and sour elements. It connects to me because it makes me happy. Me, my mom,brother, and my mom friend and a lot of Thai people love it. They will get excited when they hear the word Papaya Salad. My mom also makes it for the festival at the Buddhangkura Buddhist Temple. Papaya Salad was invented in the 1800s.

If you don’t have coconut sugar you can also use sugarcane.

Also my mother forbade me from making them because I put random stuff in it.