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Holiday Baking: Bake-and-Give Pans

We love bringing quick breads and pound cakes to holiday gatherings, but struggle with ways to make them look pretty when we present them to our hosts. The folks at King Arthur Flour are way ahead of ...

Cooking for a Crowd: How To Cook a Stress-Free Feast

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 Tha...

Non-Alcoholic (Yet Special!) Sips for the Holidays

Thanksgiving and the holiday season call for special sips at parties and dinners. But not everyone drinks alcohol, and it's a little sad to think of drinking water or apple juice with your turkey. Nev...

Thanksgiving for Every-vore: One Recipe Two Ways
Guest Post from Ivy Manning of Ivy's Feast

Thanksgiving is a great time for those of us who love to cook. That is, until one of your guests announces he's a vegetarian or vegan. Suddenly the best laid plans have a wrench thrown into them. Shou...

The Adaptable Feast by Ivy Manning
Book Review 2009

This time of year sees perhaps more mixed dining than any other time of year — and by mixed, of course, we mean vegetarian-vegan-gluten-free-with-omnivore dining. Thanksgiving and holiday partie...

Reader Tip: Add Beet to Poached Pears for Color

Look at these spectacular ruby-hued poached pears. Gorgeous! We love poached fruit, and, inspired by David Lebovitz, we've been planning on poaching a couple pounds of pears this weekend. Well, reader...

Setting the Table: Showcasing Special Family Dishes

Bringing out Great-Grandma's serving platter or using the special candle holders a favorite relative gave you years ago sends a clear signal that festive and delicious things are about to happen! And ...

Just as Good! Lighter Mac and Cheese Casserole
Recipe Review

Want to slip at least one light(er) side dish onto your Thanksgiving table? Give this one a try! Every bite is so gooey and perfectly chewy that we doubt anyone will even notice the lack of heavy crea...

Holiday Baking: Stock Up On Nuts Now!

We'll never forget the year that we put off buying nuts for our pecan pie until the weekend before Thanksgiving and then had to go to four stores before finding one lone stale package still on the she...

Snowy Village Cakelet Pan from Williams-Sonoma

Oh boy! It's that time of year! Fun baking pans! Here's the latest Nordic Ware holiday pan for Williams-Sonoma: a little village of cakelets. ...

Curious Candies: Have You Ever Made Nougat?

Imagine a cross between a marshmallow and a meringue, fragrant with honey and studded with tender nuts, and you've got nougat! We love to nibble it on its own and crumble it into desserts, but we've n...

Do You Have a Great Recipe for Spiked Hot Apple Cider?
Good Questions

Q: A friend is throwing an autumn party full of wonderful treats and drinks. My contribution is to be a boozy hot apple cider. However, none of the recipes I can find really tickle my fancy. Any tri...

What Is Your Favorite Bundt Cake Recipe?

Autumn is a time for office potlucks and holiday parties, and we're always looking around for a no-fail dessert. The bundt cake is impressively shaped, feeds a lot of people, and when properly made, i...

Holiday Food: Talk About Your Triumphs

Hello! We've missed you all the last two weeks. There was so much cooking and baking, so many dinner parties and Christmas cookies, and we want to hear all about your triumphs. It's not too late to ta...

Doing Good Food Deeds

Merry Christmas, Kitchn readers! Our hands are sore from jamming cloves into clementines so I'll see how well I can type. Today our writers take a well-deserved day off and I leave you with a nice big...

Last-Minute Menus for Christmas Breakfast

What are you making for breakfast tomorrow? Do you have a big meal, or do you just snack on Christmas candy and clementines while opening presents? We prefer a full breakfast on Christmas morning, and...

Un-Gift Guide 2008

Every year we do a rather ad-hoc Un-Gift Guide here at The Kitchn. It's intended to help you think creatively about gift-giving, and to help you get in the kitchen as you cook up sweet gifts for frien...

Candy for Giving and Party Snacks: The Full Roundup

DIY peppermint patties (quick, easy!), caramels with salt or cinnamon, old-fashioned whipped divinity, herbed almonds, fruit jellies, and slabs of toffee -- here are all of our favorite recipes for Ch...

15 Really Useful Kitchen Items for Your Favorite Cooks
Un-Gift Guide 2008

This is a homemade, handmade Christmas for many of us, and over the last two weeks we've shown you a great deal of homemade treats and sweets. But perhaps you don't have the time to make food gifts, o...

Recipe: Peppermint Ice Cream with Dark Chocolate Flecks

The only frozen thing many of us have on our minds right now (especially in New York) is what's falling out of the sky. But the snow piling up on our windowsill is not stopping us from making ice crea...

Gallery: 12 Fresh, Sweet, and Festive Cranberry Recipes

Cranberries! We can't get enough of them this time of year. Their bright tartness is a mood-lifter all winter too. Here are a dozen recipes that will show off fresh cranberries at Christmas and beyond...

Stocking Stuffer Idea: Mini Bags of Coffee
Un-Gift Guide 2008

While paying for our stash of holiday blend coffee beans the other day, we spotted some sample-sized bags near the register. This sparked an idea: Why not make our own "sample" bags of coffee to give ...

Tip: Use Spreadable Goat Cheese in Place of Cream Cheese

I recently got hip to a great cream-cheese alternative for bagels and such and was thinking it'd be a nice time to pass on the tip given what a brunch-y time of year this is between Christmas and New ...

Reader Survey: Do You Like Eggnog?

One person's cup of creamy, bourbon-spiked goodness is another person's eggy, high-fat nightmare. Where do you stand?!...

Wrap Food Gifts in Paper Bags
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Wrapping gifts in paper bags - sounds rather unromantic, right? Not when you do it like Martha Stewart! Brown paper bags are a low-cost, easy option for making homemade treats and goodies look very pr...

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