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 ...
One person's cup of creamy, bourbon-spiked goodness is another person's eggy, high-fat nightmare. Where do you stand?!...
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...
Here is a very, very last-minute food gift that takes literally five minutes to make, and yet everyone you share it with will love it (and you). Too good to be true? No -- it's just chocolate-dipped p...
We're loving this picture of an "Aspen" bûche de noël, a more modern take on the classic French Christmas cake. Traditional logs are iced in chocolate and often have little meringue mushroo...
Here's a good question from reader Chelsea, who writes: Every year for Christmas, we eat breakfast casserole after opening our presents. It's easy to put together the night before and pop into the o...
What cookies did you leave for Santa back when you were young and a believer? In my childhood home, it was Red and Green Christmas Balls (one red, one green) and a cup of cocoa left on the fireplace ...
We love cranberry sauce. It's one of our favorite parts of Thanksgiving, and we always make sure there are at least two versions on the table. But although we eat cranberry sauce leftovers for as long...
It doesn't get much better than beer bread: mix, bake, slather with butter, smile. Repeat last two steps until satisfied. What's better, all the dry ingredients can be mixed together ahead of time and...
When we think of food to give as gifts, we so often think cookies, candies, sugary nuts, toffee... The list of sweet stuff can go on and on. What about something good and salty? There are these savory...
Finding myself in possession of a house and household this Christmas season, I am trying to decorate for the holidays just a little. But it doesn't come naturally. I love the greenery, the white light...
Just in time for Christmas, a Madonna and Child Potato on eBay. No, this wasn't forwarded to me by an email-forward-happy friend. It came from a relation (I won't give away more than that, but it is...
Furoshiki are Japanese cloths that are used to wrap gifts and other items such as bento boxes. They can be used as book bags, grocery bags or to wrap any small items for transportation. They’re al...
This year, everyone in our family agreed that we are blessed with plenty of things in our lives. While we're not averse to gifts of homemade sweets and savories, we're keeping the stuff to a minimum a...
We've been very inspired by all of the Thanksgiving table photos you've sent in, and fruit-as-place-setting seems to be a theme. Here's what we did this weekend. It didn't even require string or ribbo...
We're not too crafty (as we've stated before) so our food and gift packaging at Christmas stays simple. Here's one clever, inexpensive way, though, to make gift tags and wrapping for all those amazing...
If you don't have time for rolling out dough and cutting it into dainty holiday shapes, these cookie presses might make your life a little easier. And we can imagine they'd work on all kinds of cookie...
Food gifts are one of our favorite ways to give at the holidays. Let's face it: we all have a lot of stuff, and with a recession on, it's wonderful to both give and receive sweet things for eating and...
The weather is getting colder, we've got soups on the brain, and for dessert... deep, dark chocolate. We love chocolate paired with raspberries, but this time of year it seems more wintry and festive ...
As more and more Americans enjoy wine, giving wine as a gift has also grown in popularity. As usual there is the feeling that you need to spend a lot if the wine is to be appreciated. This absolutely ...
This holiday season when your guests gather 'round for a mood-lifting cocktail, consider throwing something really fantastic at them: rim their glasses with edible silver or gold. That'll get their mi...
When we wrote about homemade gingerbread houses this morning, we hadn't yet spotted these. But this is the short-cut version we were talking about—graham crackers propped up with royal icing rat...
We know people who roll out dough and bake sheets of gingerbread to make quaint little cottages. But when we were little, we used cup- or pint-sized milk cartons as the base, with graham crackers stuc...
Sixty-seven years of amazing cookies -- 1941-2008. That's what Gourmet Magazine is featuring on their website right now. They went back through every year of their magazine's history and chose a favor...
Time to start thinking about holiday food gifts! This is our favorite part of December, and reader Rebecca helps us kick it off with this question: I've decided to make granola for friends and famil...
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