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For the upcoming royal wedding, Princess Diana's former chef Darren McGrady predicts guests will enjoy formal English fare. But when it comes to Prince William's favorite food, one decidedly unstuffy dessert tops the list: Banana Flan. McGrady used to serve the dish (displayed above on Diana's favorite "Herend Birds" china) during private lunches he prepared for the Princess, William and Harry in the dining room at Kensington Palace. "On these occasions, William and Harry could eat what they wanted," McGrady tells PEOPLE. "Two or even three slices of banana flan were perfectly okay as long as 'my boys' are happy – that was how the boss thought." And the dessert – akin to banana cream pie – has a Royal pedigree: "Both William and Harry loved banana flan," says McGrady. "It's the ultimate in comfort food or 'nursery food' as the Queen would call it. In fact, the Queen herself used to be served it as a child, too...

Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting ready for what will be one of the busiest and most exciting weeks of their lives, as they are set to finally marry at the Royal Wedding on Friday. The Royal Wedding is a huge event that people all over the world will be celebrating. In fact, The Disney Channel has even deemed this “Royal Wedding Week” so that the kiddos can get involved on the action. My five year old son even knows about the Royal Wedding thanks to Disney! Anytime a new couple gets married, speculation on when they will decide to start a family usually starts before the wedding reception is even over. How long will it be until the William and Kate baby buzz begins…if it hasn’t already? The only event bigger than the Royal Wedding will be the birth of William and Kate’s first child. Do you think that they will wait a while before choosing to have children, or will Kate be pregnant within their first year of marriage, like Prince William’s mother, Pri...

Our fascination with food with holes goes beyond the whimsical. Would English muffins be anything more than a bland, flat roll if it weren’t for all those holes waiting for sweet butter and jam? Would a focaccia bread be as crisp? A French bread as intriguing? Probably not. “I always say that good bread should have a consistently inconsistent texture. You can see the nooks and crannies,” says Daniel Leader, cookbook author and founder of Bread Alone bakery in upstate New York. “The holes are often — not always, but often — an indication of nice slow fermentation.” Ahhh, fermentation. Beer, bread and more would not be as interesting were it not for a chemical reaction that produces the gas (carbon dioxide) that prompts all those holes, bubbles and foams. “Much of what we ingest is in foamy form, where the nutritious part is combined with gas, which lends no sustenance but enhances the texture, appearance and pure enjoyment of what we eat and drink,” writes Emory Universit...

Ingredients 40 NILLA Wafers, crushed 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted 4 (8 ounce) packages PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened, divided 1 cup sugar, divided 4 teaspoons vanilla, divided 3 eggs 1 (8 ounce) tub COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed Directions Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Mix wafer crumbs and butter; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan. Beat 3 pkg. cream cheese, 3/4 cup sugar and 1 Tbsp. vanilla with mixer until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Pour over crust. Bake 50 to 55 min. or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool completely in pan. Beat remaining cr...

Doctors have given Rep. Gabrielle Giffords the go-ahead to travel to Cape Canaveral this week to watch husband Mark Kelly's space shuttle launch, Kelly says. The trip will be the first for the Arizona congresswoman since she was flown from Tucson to Houston more than three months ago to recover after she was shot in the head during a shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. Kelly said during an interview with CBS' Katie Couric that Giffords will witness the launch of Endeavour, which is scheduled for 3:47 p.m. Friday. Kelly is the commander of the mission. "I've met with her doctors, her neurosurgeon and her doctors, and … they've given us permission to take her down to the launch," Kelly said in the interview in Houston. The network statement did not specify when the interview occurred. CBS released excerpts of the interview Sunday, and it was scheduled to air Monday evening. James Harsfield, spokesman for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, ...

 Ingredients 6 cups water 4 cups uncooked egg noodles 1 onion, chopped 1/2 cup sour cream 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup 2 cups diced cooked ham 2 cups shredded Swiss cheese salt and pepper to taste 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs Directions Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2-quart casserole. Bring water to a full rolling boil in a pot.. Cook the egg noodles in the boiling water, stirring occasionally, for 3 minutes; remove from heat, cover, and let stand until the noodles are tender, about 10 minutes. Drain. Stir the noodles, onion, sour cream, chicken soup, ham, and Swiss cheese together in a large bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon into the prepared...

In the middle of the first episode of David Simon's New Orleans drama "Treme," chef Janette DeSautel has run out of dessert. And so, three months after Hurricane Katrina, she sells a customer the packaged Hubig's pie in her purse, telling her sous chef to "dress it up baby - drizzle something on it." It's the tastiest moment in the show - invoking a collective sigh from the New Orleans diaspora - and one of the most inaccurate. There were no fresh Hubig's pies in the city at that time. The Simon Hubig Co. Inc., which did not flood but sustained serious roof damage following Katrina, didn't reopen until the first week of January 2006. "The fact that all she had in her diner as a dessert item was a Hubig's pie was completely accurate," Hubig's Drew Ramsey tells CNN.com, recounting a time post-Katrina when the packaged pies were one of the only treats in town. "The fact that it was a month or so early was artistic license....

  Digital News Report – Easter is one week away, which gives us enough time to plan and prepare our feast for the holiday. There are several traditional Easter recipes and foods that you will find common. Some are ham, deviled eggs, eggs golden rod, potatoes au gratin, asparagus, and cake. Here are a few recipes for Easter. Easter Ham Ham has been one of the traditional meat served at Easter dinner. The other choice is often roast lamb. Depending on the ham you buy is how much you will want to add to it. Many of the hams are packaged with a glaze that comes with it. If you get a plain ham you can make your own glaze very easily with a cooked brown sugar and orange juice. Another popular combination is pineaple juice with orange juice and brown sugar. Cook the mixture until it thickens, then apply to the outside of the ham during the last half-hour of cooking. If you use the pineapple you can serve sliced pineaple rings with the ham. Deviled Eggs with Ham The ...

Tuck a small piece of paper with party details into hollow plastic eggs. Let kids hand-deliver them. Sprinkle baby powder “paw prints” around the house. Invite kids to follow the Easter Bunny to where the hunt begins. Before guests arrive, hide eggs in both easy and difficult places to keep kids challenged. Check your weather forecast if you plan an outdoor hunt. Award special prizes for eggs rolled in glitter or marked by special stickers. Assign each child a color of egg to find, or limit the number of eggs each child can keep so no child gets left out. Have colorful beach pails on hand for collecting eggs Party Games Engage kids with all kinds of games: assemble kids into teams for an egg relay race. Eggs are carried on spoons or forks (more difficult) and first team to finish is the winner. Or have players on hands and knees, using only their noses to nudge eggs past the finish line. Use old pillowcases for an old-fashioned "bunny hop" sack race. Forget pinning the t...

This is the first post of a series that are dedicated to jQuery’s new Microsoft contributed Globalization plugin or shortly jquery.glob.js. In this first post I will try to cover the very basics like library licensing, “the good & the bad” and some thoughts on how it could be improved (IMO). I will be post some jQuery globalization plugin tutorials in coming days, so bare with me. Before we

This is the first post of a series that are dedicated to jQuery’s new Microsoft contributed Globalization plugin or shortly jquery.glob.js. In this first post I will try to cover the very basics like library licensing, “the good & the bad” and some thoughts on how it could be improved (IMO). I will be post some jQuery globalization plugin tutorials in coming days, so bare with me. Before we

If you want to download jQuery Mobile source code and look into it just like everybody else, we are all out of luck :(  As I mentioned in my previous post jQuery mobile facts, the source code will be available in October this year. The jQuery Mobile source will not be in a separate jquery.mobile.js file. It will be right in the jQuery core. This means that jQuery team is fixing and improving

If you want to download jQuery Mobile source code and look into it just like everybody else, we are all out of luck :(  As I mentioned in my previous post jQuery mobile facts, the source code will be available in October this year. The jQuery Mobile source will not be in a separate jquery.mobile.js file. It will be right in the jQuery core. This means that jQuery team is fixing and improving

jQuery Mobile is an attempt to create a javascript framework that would work on all major mobile browsers. In this post I will try to lay down all the facts that I could find about jQuery Mobile, so that you are up to date. jQuery team has mentioned that they were planning and started to work on jQuery for Mobile devices when they announced jQuery 1.4. John Resig said that they already had

jQuery Mobile is an attempt to create a javascript framework that would work on all major mobile browsers. In this post I will try to lay down all the facts that I could find about jQuery Mobile, so that you are up to date. jQuery team has mentioned that they were planning and started to work on jQuery for Mobile devices when they announced jQuery 1.4. John Resig said that they already had

A lot of users requested a demo for my jQuery Twitter plugin. It has been a while since I updated the plugin, so I downloaded the latest version and while looking thought the code found couple of bugs. So, here comes updated and fixed jQuery Tweeter plugin - jTwitter 1.1.1. In this release, I fixed a little bug that would not allow you request Tweets without number of posts like this: //

A lot of users requested a demo for my jQuery Twitter plugin. It has been a while since I updated the plugin, so I downloaded the latest version and while looking thought the code found couple of bugs. So, here comes updated and fixed jQuery Tweeter plugin - jTwitter 1.1.1. In this release, I fixed a little bug that would not allow you request Tweets without number of posts like this: //

After a long break on the blog, I am back on the release date of jQuery version 1.4! Today is jQuery’s birthday and what can be a better present than a new version release? As I tweeted previously jQuery 1.4 has a lot to offer: better iframe support, flexible events (this in particular), etc. If you have not been keeping up to date with jQuery 1.4 features John Resig will announce 1.4 release

After a long break on the blog, I am back on the release date of jQuery version 1.4! Today is jQuery’s birthday and what can be a better present than a new version release? As I tweeted previously jQuery 1.4 has a lot to offer: better iframe support, flexible events (this in particular), etc. If you have not been keeping up to date with jQuery 1.4 features John Resig will announce 1.4 release

Some time ago I created jQuery Twitter plugin – jTwitter. Plugin lets you get data about any Twitter user, such as user’s bio, profile image, homepage URL, background image URL, following count, followers count, messages count, etc. without any Twitter API key. It is very useful to attach additional Twitter data to your site’s user profiles, etc. However, it was not very handy for creating your