apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time


Posts tagged “holidays”

8 Cakes To Go With Your Holiday Pies
Plus a Lovely Little Cake Song

There are not many things we love more than our Thanksgiving pies — other than a slice of fabulous cake. Something about Thanksgiving always feels a little less structured with mountains of p...

8 Cakes To Go With Your Holiday Pies
Plus a Lovely Little Cake Song

There are not many things we love more than our Thanksgiving pies — other than a slice of fabulous cake. Something about Thanksgiving always feels a little less structured with mountains of p...

Recipe Review: Hot Chocolate On A Stick

Hot Chocolate on a Stick. The idea just sounds fabulous doesn't it? We have to warn you, once you make your own hot chocolate, you'll never go back to storebought and your friends and family will a...

How To Make Moist Cornbread (Plus Six Ways To Eat It)

Cornbread is a great way to utilize pantry staples and requires very little effort to make. The only trick to cornbread is that it has to be amazing every time, for as we all know, dry cornbread is t...

What's Your Favorite Special Occasion Dish?

When you're celebrating a holiday or some good news, what is your favorite dish to make? You know, that special thing that you only cook once in a while. Do you use a regular standby, or do you us...

Ramadan Food: When And What To Eat

Ramadan (in Arabic: رمضان, Ramadān) is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. During the whole month, faithful observers of Islam fast from sunrise (Sahour) to sunset (Iftar). During the f...

Top 10 Holiday Uses for Wine Corks

Have you accumulated a supply of wine corks throughout the year? Possibly more rapidly now that holiday season is here? Here are some of our favorite festive – and green – ways to reuse them. ...

Baking Holiday: Celebrating Pi Day with Pie

Nerdy bakers have a particular reason to love March 14th. Tomorrow's date, 3/14, resembles the mathematical constant of pi (3.14159). And what better way to celebrate pi than to make pie? ...

Survey: What's for Christmas Breakfast?

The holidays are here, and we're stretching out into luxurious, very indulgent Christmas cooking. Fried breads and cakey sweets - this is the time of year for them. One of the places we love to indu...

Taking Photos of Food

When we have holiday celebrations at home, we always take tons of photos. What's funny is, it always turns out that our entire family takes more photos of the food than of each other. We've seen fri...

Reader Tip: Use Bakery Sheets for Wrapping Candy

We found this good tip from reader sarahrae in our post about wrapping homemade candy. She says: I cater baked goods and what I have found to be the most economical is food wrappers... the pieces of...

Blogging NPR: Figgy Pudding and Fat Goose

National Public Radio quietly and steadily provides some of the best food coverage around, and yet we often miss the best stories. We did catch Dorie Greenspan the other day in this segment: Now, Y...