Holiday Cooking

6 Tips to Stay Organized This Holiday Season

Mia Redrick | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Holiday Planning, Holiday Preparation, Holiday Cooking, Holiday Decorating, Gift Wrapping, Holiday Organization Tips, Holiday Cards, Organization, Parents News

Staying organized during the holiday season is something that we all need and want, but forget to consider while shopping for presents, cooking, entertaining, wrapping gifts and decorating.

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10 Festive Holiday Cookies

Food52 | Posted 02.18.2012

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Nothing shouts "holiday cheer!" louder than a batch of these buttery, sugary creations -- creations that will cloak your house in that unmistakable perfume of holiday spirit.

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Healthi(er) Gingerbread House

Jeanne Ponessa Fratello | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Kids Healthy Eating, Gingerbread Houses Christmas, Gingerbread Holidays, Holiday Cooking, Gingerbread Healthy Eating, Food News

Are gingerbread houses really meant for eating?

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Green, Healthy Holiday Treats

Elaine Gavalas | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Holidays, Cookies, Paximadia, Recipes, Green, Environment, Natural Health, Holiday Gifts, Holiday Recipes, Holiday Cooking, Holiday Desserts, Holiday Foods, Healthy Living News

Your kitchen is the perfect place to stir up green gifts for the holiday season. I enjoy making deliciously healthful food gifts that can be savored throughout the season. You can make multiple batches of goodies and keep some for you too!

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10 Easy Tips To Stock A Holiday Pantry

Hana Choi & Christine Han | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Holidays, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, Cooking, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Slidepollajax, Holiday Entertaining, Holiday Cooking, Food Pantry, Pantry Confidential, Women News

Somehow, the holidays have once again snuck up on us. For a season marked by indulgence and excess, it's easy to get carried away and feel overwhelmed...

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Must-Have Kitchen Gadgets For This Thanksgiving

Kitchen Daily | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Cooking Thanksgiving, Roasting Turkey How-To, Cooking Gadgets, Cooking-Products, Holiday Cooking, Christmas Cooking, Turkey Roasting, Thanksgiving Cooking, Kitchen Tools, KitchenDaily News

A perfectly roasted turkey is the centerpiece of most Thanksgivings, but the tiniest tools (for example, a piece of twine) can mean the difference bet...

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Amid Holiday Glitter, Food Shines As A Genuine Article Of Faith

Pythia Peay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Sanctuary, Community Gardens, Eve Jackson, Slow Food Movement, Holiday Commercialism, Jungian Archetypes of Food, Eating Disorders, Industrial Agriculture, Holiday Cooking, Organic Food, Sustainable Farming, Factory Farm Animals, Michelle Obama's Community Garden, Holiday Food, Locavore, Religion News

That food can root us in the past while offering hope for the future seems proof of its power to transform. Most of us have experienced the bliss of biting into a dish so divine it thrills alive the soul as well as the body.

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A Spoonful of Chocolate Makes the Holidays Go Down

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Cooking, Mousse, Gingersnaps, Chocolate, Baking, Dessert, Holiday Cooking, Food, Spices, Recipes, New York City, New York, Sugar, Recipes Desserts, Dessert Recipes, Food News

If you asked me off the top of my head what holiday dessert might be best suited to some chocolate-oriented tweaking, I'd answer very quickly: "gingerbread."

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Forget Lamb: Here Are Two Easy, Crowd-Pleasing Recipes for Baked Ham

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baked Ham, Holiday Cooking, Easter Lunch, Style News

Easter: No better time for what my brother-in-law, the family wag, calls "Jesse's kosher ham." It's both easier and cheaper than the standard fare of lamb and mint jelly.

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How to Handle My Eating Disorder in Your Home for the Holidays

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Holidays, Holiday Season, Anorexia, Christmas, Young Women, Holiday Cooking, Eating Disorders, Teenage Girls, Mothers and Daughters, Teenagers, Healthy Living News

For those of us who have struggled with eating disorders, being home for this season -- the combination of food and family -- is an incredibly fraught scenario.

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The Spirit of Invention

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Happiness, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Invention, Holiday Traditions, Holiday Cooking, Malcolm Gladwell, Gender Roles, Family, The Inner Life, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News

Through a collective desire to invent what had not been invented before, I had been given the chance to identify how old assumptions carry the power to limit the present.

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