Hi Spatulatta!

Your website is really cool - I've learned a lot from it.  My family is half
Dutch(from Holland) so a lot of that food is popular in our family.  Something we
really like is a bacon pancake.  We don't have a written recipe, but we sort of make
it up as we go along.

What u do:

Fry some bacon in a pan.
In the meantime, make some pancake batter like Bisquick.
Then, pour the batter on a few strips of bacon that are close to each other.  Wait for
the pancake to cook on one side by looking at the bubbles.

When it's done on one side, flip it over and finish cooking!  Yum!

-Christina, age 12, Georgia

Dear Isabella and Olivia,

I am very excited to know that you have put my e-mail on your blog.  Today I'd like
to give you a recipe for a kind of chinese food - hot pot. In Northern China, it is
very cold in winter. So people like eating hot pot.

First, you should make some soup you like.  But you'd better not make borsch or
chowder, because it will make the taste bad.  Maybe you can make some soup with
pork, chicken or seafoods.  You know, chinese like chicken soup.

Second, you can buy many vegetables or meat you like.  The best ingredients for hot pot
are vegetables and seafood.

Next, you just put all the ingredients into the soup.  For example, if you want to eat
some tomatoes, you can put some tomatoes into the soup.  A few minutes later, you can
scoop them up from the pot and eat.  Don't put all the food into the soup at the same
time.  You could finish some food and then put another food into it.  We usually eat
hot pot with many people, our family or friends.  And we eat it for a long time.  Because
to sit beside the hot pot makes us feel warm in winter and we can talk to our friends
for a long time.

I am sorry that my English is poor.  I am afraid you can not understand me clearly, so
I will send you a video about hot pot.  I hope you will like it.
                
Yours,
Shilyo Tse

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Dear Isbella and Olivia,

I was happy to receive your e-mail. I like cooking foods, too. There is
many traditional food in China. And it is very delicious. Do you know
zongzi?  We eat this kind of food on a very special Festival.  It calls
Dragon Boat Festival.  But it is very difficult to make this kind of food.

Another kind of special food calls mooncake.

We also eat it on a festival calls Zhongqiu Festival.

I will keep sending e-mails to you and tell more traditional Chinese food.

See you next time!
Shilyo