Calling all cooks and bakers and party makers! The holidays are approaching and we know you have some favorite dishes and treats that you love to serve up for holiday meals and parties, as well as tips for throwing a great holiday soiree.

We’d like to share some of the area’s best holiday recipes and party ideas with readers. During the holidays, we’ll print some of them in the Rome News-Tribune's Sunday Roman Life section.

Plus, we will put all of them in our Taste of Northwest Georgia recipe database on our Web site. The database is searchable by category and keyword and already includes all of the recipes submitted for the Cooking School special section earlier this fall. We plan to add recipes to the database all year long, and you’ll be able to access them anytime you’re looking for something special to cook up.

Send recipes and party ideas by mail to Holiday Recipes, Rome News-Tribune, PO Box 1633, Rome, GA 30162. You can e-mail your recipes to romanlife@rn-t.com. Please put Holiday Recipes in the subject line.

You can also post your recipes here, but we will need a way to contact you for your full name and city of residence.