Marina,
It's very simple. When someone has a birthday, that person picks some recipes from
Cuisine at Home to make up a birthday menu, posting the list here, in the forum. To help out, some of the more regular people type in or copy and paste the chosen recipes so that everyone on the forum will have them.
At that point, whoever wishes to participate makes as many of the birthday-menu recipes as they would like or are able, They don't have to be MADE on the birthday - just some time before then.
On the actual birthday, all who participated write reviews and comments about the chosen recipes, including likes and dislikes, variations made due to unavailability or dislike of some ingredients, family-member or guest comments, etc.
Since you are the only birthday person on the site, this month, you have the honour of selecting the only birthday meal for us to review this month.
So, check out your
Cuisine at Home magazines (especially, but not necessarily the latest issue) and decide what you would like to be your "birthday dinner." It doesn't all have to come from one issue, and if you don't happen to have the magazine available (as I don't, here in Honduras), check the magazine's
main website to see the table of contents of the current issue and lists of recipes from past issues that are in the annual volumes. From there, you can get some ideas, then get the recipes from other regulars here.
Have fun!
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