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In the past I've always made turkey chili the day after Thanksgiving, but last year I made gumbo too, following Marvin Woods recipe from his New Low Country Cooking. The beauty was I'd made and frozen the creole sauce in the summer and just had to make the turkey stock. It was a delicious way to use up so many leftovers and have a meal very different from the day before. My cousin and aunt were literally sticking their forks in for a taste before it was even done!

no offense but I don't think you can get good NY pizza in florida or anywhere else for that matter. I grew up there and it is the first thing you miss when you leave..aside from bagels. my mom sent me a few pies from a web site that says the restaurant is in syosset. It was an very thin crust and coal fired. You can tell by the way the crust cooks. they were outstanding. here is the place http://www.buynypizza.com

What I wouldn't do to work for Jim at SSB! I have such a passion for bread baking. I am a self taught bread maker and bake lots of bread but none as awesome as his. Jim, the texture and flavor is the best ever. I'll work for free!

so JUST fruit??? good for you! I couldnt do it for long.
Grilling fruit tastes surprisingly awesome.

- pineapple
- oranges
- tomatoes
- pink grapefruit
- lemons
experiment with this application and let me know how it goes :)

@janaatwg - For sure! Melons in particular are awesome with savoury applications...but she can eat ONLY fruit!!!?

Yes, I agree about the apple. Use a crispy apple, like a Gala, Fuji, or Pink Lady, and cut it into thin slices. If your diet permits a little added sugar, mix together a teaspoon and a half of sugar and a few shakes of cinnamon and nutmeg, and dip your apple slices in that. It's been a favorite snack of mine since I was very small.

I find apples rather filling. Slice one up in very thin slices and you'll probably trick yourself into thinking you're eating more than just one apple.

Looking at the various websites on the diet, I think the intention of the diet on the first day is that you eat "fruit flavored fruit". No tomatoes on Day 1. Certainly nothing starchy, like potatoes or yams. Or fatty like avocado. On Day 1 you can have as much soup as you'd like. Cabbage likes apples. I'd suggest cutting the apple that you find the most tolerable into cubes and sprinkling it over your soup like croutons. Pears or Asian pears would probably work too. Or make julienne of green papaya and put the soup over it like noodles.

nuke a sweet potato (or yam) for 6 minutes, then sprinkle brown sugar, a "pat" of butter, and a little maple syrup (REAL maple!) and mash with a fork. the flavors go perfectly with roasted brocolli.

OOoohhh..mono-dieting. That sounds like it could be a new fad. Actually, I read somewhere, years ago, that someone proposed that people eat like wild primates (allegedly) do, where they pretty much eat one thing at a time until that resource is used up, then they move on to the next. So they get to a bunch of fruit trees and they hang around there and eat the fruit until it's gone (or they get chased away, or need to move for some other reason), and then they find something else...maybe a bee's nest full of honey...and when that's gone they move on to whatever they find next.

I don't recall what the interval was for the one type of food on the diet, but you wouldn't be eating two things at dinner. It makes sense that you'd lose weight on a diet like that because you'd be bored to death with each item and decide being hungry was better than eating another meal of whatever it is. But it would also mean no herbs, spices, soups, stews, etc. It was more like raw apples one day and then maybe poached chicken the next and lettuce the next.

After a couple weeks of that, either you'd go mad or you'd get some vitamin deficiency disease, which is probably why it never caught on.

So, hmmmm...in comparison, a day of fruits and a day of veggies doesn't sound that bad. Particularly if that fruit is doused in votka. :-)

At least it's summer and there are lots of fruits and veggies in season. Think about how much it would suck if you did this in January.

I think tacky hardly begin to describe what this charge to the guest could be called. It sounds like someone is trying to make a buck on this affair. I honestly believe the "guest of honor" should be told. I know if someone were giving a party for me and a friend or associate did this, I'd be so embarassed I wouldn't know what to do. Then I'd get mad! I think this person would want to know. What's going to happen is that people eventually are going to hold resentment against the person the party was held for, they're not going to to believe they didn't know about it. I wonder if the honoree finds out about this just how STUPID the hosts are going to feel? I really hope someone tells them off about this, I also hope they have VERY few people show up. Of course they'll wonder why, they appear to be a very dense type.

I've got one for you, I was invited to a wedding and dinner afterward. The next line was if you want to bring a date he/she is not invited to dinner but feel free to invite them for dancing after dinner...Now how do you tell a date
meet me at the reception around 10pm., and be sure to dress up!..I did not attend.

I think the party ought to be a get together where everyone can bring a dish and maybe some booze. It's very inconsiderate to think that everyone can afford this sort of thing. If the people, who you don't know anyway, want to have a party, I think they should foot the bill.