Holidays, Festivals, Celebrations & Observances
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April Fools, Australia Day, Bastille Day, Black History Month,
ANZAC Day, Groundhog Day, Persian New Year / Norooz...

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Advent

All Saints Day

ANZAC Biscuits - Tallyrand

ANZAC Day Baking (cookies) - Better Living

ANZAC Day Page (biscuits recipe) - Fire Frog

Okay Get Cooking: ANZAC Biscuits/Slice - Chookyblue

Traditional Anzac Biscuits (2 recipes) - Sue Dyson & Roger McShane

April Fool Carrots - Cooks.com

April Fools Food Breakfast Pizza - FoodDownUnder

April Fools Day (pranks, recipes) - Funmunch

April Fool's Day (recipes, crafts) - Web Holidays

April Fools Day Fun (activity ideas, kitty litter pan cake) - FeatureSource

April Fools' Pranks Galore (pranks, recipes: ice cream potatoes, cashew chicken stir-fry, fruit chews green beans, fried egg sundae...) - FamilyFun

Fooling Around (April Fool's recipes: strawberry lemon fool parfaits, blackberry rhubarb fool tart, brandied peach fool...) - Food Network

Noodles In Fairy Butter: Recipe For April Fools Day - Recipe Source

Sauerkraut Chocolate Cake (April Fools' recipe: scroll down) - Niagra Gazette

Arbor Day

Advance Australia fare (for Australia Day: seafood mixed grill with roasted tomatoes, summer vegetable carpaccio with garlic toast, banana pancakes with golden syrup, summer wine) - smh.com.au

An Australian recipe for Australia Day (ANZAC biscuits) - Victoria Crebbin

Aussie Classics (for Australia Day: baked custard with mascarpone & star anise, kumara & cumin scones, lucknow fennel pavlova, little lamingtons) - Lynne Mullins

Australia Day Delicacy (Little Lamingtons) - Quoth The Raven

Australia Day Menu (red throat emperor with macadamia crust, forest berry custard tart) - The Courier-Mail

Australia Day Pavlova - DLTK

Australia Day Yeast Extract Damper - ABC North West Queensland

Enjoy A True Australia Day Banquet (pepperberry eye fillet with wild plum & chilli sauce, spinach & ricotta tortellini with bush tomato sauce, wattleseed butterscotch ice-cream sundae with almond bread, riberry & chocolate gateau...) - CSIRO

Lamingtons For Australia Day - butter sugar flour

Traditional Tucker - Australia-Day.com

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Baby Shower Games & Recipes - Soapnuts Library

Backwards Day (ideas for games, crafts, snacks...) - Perpetual Preschool

Bastille Day (bouillabaisse recipe) - Taste Buddies

Bastille Day Pork Chops - Epicurious

Bastille Day Recipes (boeuf aux carottes à la ancienne, country pistolettes, trout meuniere amandine...) - La Belle Cuisine

Fanfare For The Common French Food: Vive Bastille Day! (croque monsieur, mashed potatoes and apples, peach & nectarine soup with a sauce of red berries & fresh mint...) - CNN

Beltane

Birthdays

Black History Month (recipes: black-eyed peas & limas, easy neck bones, fried cabbage...) - What's Cooking At Holland

Black History Month Recipes For You (BBQ peach-glazed ribs, creamy squash casserole, sweet potato pie...) - The Recipe Link

Boy's Day

Bridal Showers

Buddhist Holidays

Burn's Night

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Canada Day

Carnival

Children's Day (Japanese)

Chinese New Year

Christian Holidays

Christmas

Cinco De Mayo

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Dia De Los Muertos

Diwali / Deepavali

Doll Festival (Japanese)

Dragon Boat Festival

Durga Puja

Dussera

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Earth Day

Easter

Election Cake (for Election Day) - Catholic Culture Also see the frosting recipe.

Elvis Day

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Father's Day

Fiesta, Filipino Style (pancit guisado recipe) - Grandma's Kitchen

Football Parties

The Fourth Of July

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Ganesh Chaturthi

Gantan

Girl's Day

Groundhog Cookies Recipe (for Groundhog Day) - The Murphy Family Cookbook

Groundhog Day Cupcake - FamilyFun.com

Activities and Crafts for Groundhog Day (mask, puppet) - Enchanted Learning.com

Groundhog's Day (activities, crafts, snacks) - The Perpetual Preschool

Guy Fawkes Day / Bonfire Night

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The Hajj

Halloween

Hanukkah

Hina Matsuri

Hogmanay

Holi

Holy Week

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Independence Day Kleinur (Icelandic National Day: donut-like recipe) - Nik's Saga

Id Al-Adha

Id Al-Fitr

Imbolc

Celebrating Freedom With Oriya Cuisine (India Indpendence Day recipes: chana dali; piaj sag bhaja; luchi) - Monsoon Spice

Islamic Holidays

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Janmashtami

Japanese New Year

Parsi Jashan (Sadeh: chicken farcha, sali boti, lagan nu custard...)- Gourmetindia.com

Jewish Holidays

Juneteenth

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Kodomo No Hi

Kwanzaa

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Des Crêpes (La Chandeleur) - Chocolate & Zucchini

Labor Day

Lammas

Lent

Lincoln's Birthday

Lohri Recipes (at bottom: ganee ki kheer, atta ladoo, coconut chikki, gajak...) - Lohri Festival

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Mabon / Harvest Home

Mardi Gras & Carnival

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

May Day

Memorial Day

Mexican Independence Day With Authentic Mexican Food Recipes (queso fundido; tamales de puerco; birria de borrego; menudo for the morning after) - MexGrocer

Recipe: A Vegetarian Twist On Chiles En Nogada (for Mexican Independence Day) - Marc R. AKA Mental Masala

Michaelmas

Mid-Autumn Festival / Moon Festival

Mothering Sunday

Mother's Day

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National Tree Day (Australia: how to organize, planting tips...) - Planet Ark

Navratri

New Year's Day & Eve

New Year's (Gregorian calendar)

Ajeel: Persian Trail Mix (recipe for Chahârshanbe Sûrî) - Family Spice

The First Celebration For New Year's (Charshanbeh Soori, prelude to Nowrooz: ash-e resht-e recipe) - Gastronomie

Kukuye Sabzi: Iranian Herbed Omelet (traditional No Ruzz/Persian New Year recipe) - Serving The Guest

Nilou Mostoufi (scroll down for Norooz recipe: kuku) - Spiral Muse

Noodle Soup: Ash-e reshteh (traditional Nowruz/Persian New Year recipe) - Najmieh Batmanglij

Norooz (Persian New Year: naan-gerdooee recipe, Norooz candle craft) - Beaconsfield PS

Sofreh Preparation: Growing Sabzeh & Egg Painting (preparing for Norooz) - PersianMirror

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Obon

Oktoberfest

Omisoka

Onam

Ostara / Lady Day

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Pajushan Specials: Jain Holy 8 Days (recipes: methi papad sabzi, mogar ki sabzi , goondh ki raab...) - Bawarchi

Passover

Pentecost

Pongal

Presidents' Day

Purim

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Rakhi / Raksha Bandhan

Rama Navami

Ramadan

Remembrance Day Theme, Crafts & Ideas (paper poppy wreath, cross craft, door hanger, hands wreath) - KinderPlans.com

Rosh Hashanah

J.L. Runeberg's Day (Runeberg's tarts) - Finnguide

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Saint Andrew's Day

Saint Brigid's Day

Saint Joseph's Day

Saint Lucia Day

Saint Michael's Day

Saint Nicholas Day

Saint Patrick's Day

Saints' Days

Samhain

Shogatsu

Sikh Holidays

Sukkot

Summer Solstice / Litha

Super Bowl Sunday

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Talk Like A Pirate Day

Tet

Thanksgiving

Sarina’s Independence Day Coconut Sugar Cakes (Trinidad and Tobago Independence Day) - TriniGourmet.com

Tu B'Shevat

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Valentine's Day

Veteran's Day

Happy Victoria Day (picnic recipes, Victorian recipes, Victorian picnic etiquette...) - Twilight Bridge

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Washington's Birthday

Weddings

Wiccan Holidays

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Yom Kippur

Yule / Winter Solstice