Thanksgiving News

Catholic Charities & the St. Vincent's Programs is asking the community for non-perishable food donations to give away at our upcoming "Thanksgiving in May" event happening Wednesday, May 21 at 8 a.m. at the St. Vincent's Food Pantry.

If Thanksgiving is all about the sides, Easter is all about the main. While we agonize over styles of stuffings, whole or smooth cranberry sauces, sweet potatoes with or without marshmallows, and so many other Turkey Day dilemmas, we tend to just cobble together a what-have-you assortment of sides to accompany the beloved Easter ham or lamb.

Easter , like Thanksgiving or Christmas or any other food-centric holiday, is a time to sit back and relax with friends and family and celebrate with a veritable feast.

It's not a crazy as it sounds. And it's much easier than you think. We created a delicious and beautiful baked ham that is stuffed with layer upon layer of sweet potato slices.

I love Easter candy. I love biting the ears off chocolate bunnies and picking out all the red jelly beans.

There's the One Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and then there is the 'eucharistic business' of the many, and the proud.

Easter may not have the commercial draw of Christmas, but it's still an important holiday.

Butter sculptures in the shape of a lamb are a traditional part of Easter meals among Buffalo's large Polish-American population.

It is almost a clichA© to say that Passover is the family holiday for Jews .

The Erie County Executive began a new Easter tradition at the Broadway Market when he "pardoned" a butter lamb on Wednesday.

Heather Dawbarn has officially declared her intention to run for re-election for Rutherford County Register of Deeds on May 6th, 2014.

According to a Facebook post on the film's website, brothers Caleb and Cody will stand in for Walker in finishing the remaining action sequences for the film "and small gaps in production."

If you have questions about food, cooking, kitchen equipment, dining or would like to publicize your organization's upcoming fundraising meal or bake sale, write to me at What's Cookin, P. Q: I'm looking for a recipe for baked apples.

In a 5-0 vote Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors charged County Executive Jeff Smith with identifying a replacement facility for the Sunnyvale Armory in Palo Alto, Mountain View or Sunnyvale, as well as possible funding options.

Rotary's donation will go toward the purchase of 200 hams, which will be added to Easter food baskets for distribution to less fortunate area residents.

If Thanksgiving is all about the sides, Easter is all about the main. While we agonize over styles of stuffings, whole or smooth cranberry sauces, sweet potatoes with or without marshmallows, and so many other Turkey Day dilemmas, we tend to just cobble together a what-have-you assortment of sides to accompany the beloved Easter ham or lamb.

Since her 23-year-old daughter, Tabatha Salo, died of a prescription drug overdose in 2011, the family has set a place for her at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

As one who was raised with no dietary requirements or restrictions and only one holiday food tradition -- turkey at Thanksgiving -- I was struck by this week's report out of Chicago about the scarcity of whitefish due to the frozen Great Lakes.

A Montgomery County Circuit Judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 25 years for robbing a Burtonsville home on Thanksgiving 2012, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced.

The Erie County Executive will begin a new Easter tradition at the Broadway Market when he "pardons" a butter lamb on Wednesday.