12 prep ahead holiday cooking tricks to ease last minute stress (and cleanup!) in the kitchen.
This year, I chopped and prepped many of my holiday dinner ingredients ahead of Thanksgiving. I still had plenty to do in the kitchen the day of, but it was more relaxed — my mom and I peeling apples (and sipping champagne) instead of chopping onion after onion....
Healthy baking substitutes, so that you can eat more holiday cookies, pie, and cake without guilt. (Right?)
I’ve never been particularly shy about using butter, sugar, and eggs in my baked goods, but with the holiday baking season upon us, I figure a few healthy baking substitutes might be useful. No, I’m not talking about using birdseed, carob, or bean paste...
It’s alllll gravy. Three simple solutions for how to fix lumpy, thin, or thick gravy.
It’s hard to imagine Thanksgiving without gravy. Silky and savory, this simple sauce makes many of our favorite Thanksgiving dishes shine. And it can cover up those dishes that don’t exactly sparkle. (Dry stuffing…sigh.) If you’re looking for a stellar, classic recipe...
One easy trick to take simple roasted vegetable recipes from good to holiday-worthy.
Roasting is the easiest way to prepare veggies this time of year (especially if you use our foolproof method for roasting vegetables), but all alone, they can seem a little pedestrian for the holiday table. Which is why I use a secret weapon: easy sauces to dress them...
Well-traveled: 6 easy-to-transport Thanksgiving potluck recipes for when you’re not hosting Thanksgiving (whoo!).
As a young twenty-something, I once tried to transport an entire uncooked apple pie in the back of my car, just so I could achieve that fresh-out-of-the-oven effect for my Friendsgiving crew.  Needless to say, the upholstery in my car was never the same after that...
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