10 terrific money-saving tips for hosting a wonderful holiday dinner on a budget
Hosting Christmas dinner is so much fun — but all that fancy food can definitely add up, putting a strain on your budget. Fortunately we’ve got some great money-saving tips for throwing a memorable, wonderful, fabulous holiday meal on a budget. Plan well...
12 spectacular no-bake holiday cookie ball recipes to make with the kids
Baking Christmas cookies with the kids always sounds like a good idea until you’re elbow deep in cookie batter with too many sticky hands trying to “help” and eat the raw dough. So if you have about as much patience as I do for this type of endeavor,...
Our team shares our favorite family holiday recipes that taste like home: Main dishes, sides, and desserts. Lots of desserts.
We’ve talked so much about how cooking and baking can really connect us with our past, our traditions, our families, and there’s no time we feel that more than right now, over the holiday season. There’s something about rolling our sleeves up in the...
My Dad’s perfect peanut brittle recipe, refined and perfected over 20 years
I know everyone makes fun of recipes that start with long, drawn-out intros about life and love and cooking and family and the smell of cocoa powder and blah blah blah. But in the case of my dad’s perfect peanut brittle recipe, which he’s been kind enough...
The perfect, easy holiday cake recipe I always turn to for hostess, teacher, and neighbor gifts
My favorite kind of cakes are the ones that beg to be eaten morning, noon and night. The kind of cake that gives equal permission to be enjoyed with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine – and Nigella Lawson’s Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake does exactly that. Ultra-moist yet...
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