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What's cooking this weekend? Are you getting a jump on Thanksgiving cooking? Or are you celebrating the season in other ways? We're dreaming of grilled sweet potatoes with rosemary, and of oatmeal cookies with cranberries. Here are a few more good ideas for eating and drinking this weekend. And tell us: what are you cooking?

We have had quite a few great recipes and good ideas for hot holiday drinks the past few weeks at The Kitchn. Here's a look back at over a dozen hot drinks, from Nora's hot apple-ginger toddy from this afternoon to hot chocolate on a stick to pumpkin spice latte (just like Starbucks!).

Here's a tip from our own experience in throwing many dinner parties and holiday meals. If you are able to, set the table the night before! Here's why we like to do it.

We love arancini, those little fried balls of risotto, and these look especially scrumptious!

Q: My Mom and I want to prepare a Thanksgiving brunch for family that will be around in the morning for the holiday, but not at the traditional dinnertime.

Does anyone have any tasty recipe ideas for us?

Sent by Erin

Uh-oh! Have you heard? Libby's, that ubiquitous Nestlé brand of canned pumpkin puree, so essential to Thanksgiving bakers, has announced that due to rainy weather and late harvests, there may be a shortage of canned pumpkin this Thanksgiving!

We already advised you to stock up on nuts, so you better add pumpkin to the list. Or just buy a pie pumpkin and make your own puree; we really prefer the taste.

Have you been seeing a shortage of canned pumpkin in your area?

Remember those hypercolor t-shirts from the 1980's? Well apply that visually novel idea to cookware and that's basically the idea for the Coral cooking pots, a concept which gives would-be Giadas a visual indicator of how hot the pot is, making determining when to add/reduce heat an easier task thanks to incorporation of thermochromic (temperature sensitive, color changing) spots.

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OK, this is it — our giant Thanksgiving roundup, with all our tips, hints, recipes, good ideas, and other Thanksgiving-related help. Our cheerfully audacious title might be slightly overstated, but we still think that you can find clues about cooking just about anything you'll need for your holiday dinner right here!

In the fall, we turn to apple cider over and over again. We mix it with bubbly water and a slice of lemon for a fizzy cocktail, or with cinnamon and cloves as a hot after-dinner drink. Here's one new way to try apple cider: with dramatically sweet and tangy hibiscus flowers in syrup.

Take a look at this sleek kitchen renovation — you won't believe the before photo! It looks just like many, many small kitchens that we've seen lately.

Thanksgiving brings out dinner party anxiety in the best of us, but it's really just a heightened version of the more common dinner parties we all throw throughout the year. So how does one plan a Thanksgiving meal — or any other big meal for lots of people? Here are a few thoughts on planning a well-balanced meal and staying (relatively!) unstressed while preparing it.

Here's one more cake to add to your lineup of Thanksgiving hopefuls!

Q:At the market this weekend, I bought what I was told to be garlic greens (see pictures). I had to have them, they are beautiful!

Are they garlic greens? I've never cooked with these before, any suggestions? Is the bud at the tip edible?

Sent by Mila

I came downstairs the other night after an extra-long day of work to find that my husband had not only very kindly provided dinner, but had appropriated one of my mixing bowls for a higher purpose. Can you see what it is?