The holidays stretch from Halloween to New Year's Day. These ideas, tips, recipes, and menus will see you through the entire season.
- Christmas Leftovers
Too many candy canes? This article is here to help, with wonderful, imaginative, delicious recipes that will use up Christmas leftovers in ways that will delight your family and friends.
- Easiest New Year's Party Menu
Shop, chop, and eat! That's all it takes to make this fun and fancy New Year's spread for all your family and friends.
- Fondue for New Year's Eve
What if you don't feel like braving the roads, the crowds, and the noise for New Year's Eve? Stay home - and serve this cozy retro dinner menu.
- New Year's Open House
A New Year's Open House is an old fashioned way to entertain that's easy on the host and hostess. This fluid party is best served by an appetizer and dessert buffet; all you have to do is occasionally replace and replenish the food and make sure the coffee is hot and fresh.
- New Year's Soup Buffet
Not to comment on the economy or anything, but soup is more than a last resort: it is inexpensive, nourishing, and delicious. A soup buffet is the perfect way to entertain.
- Halloween!
Creepy, crawly foods will give you the edge when it comes to this fun and scary holiday. I feel that Halloween kicks off the holiday season; after all, when Halloween is over, it's November!
- Halloween and the First Snowfall
This weekend's worth of menus and recipes highlights fall foods and comfort foods.
- Eyeballs and Spiders and Brains Oh My!
More creepy ideas and fun foods for your Halloween party.
- Cook Turkey From the Frozen State
This is how I cook my Thanksgiving turkey, ever since Dr. O. Peter Snyder, Jr. sent me these instructions. And I've heard from lots of readers who love this method too. Just think - no defrosting the turkey! Just roast it to perfection. It's that easy!
- How NOT To Cook a Turkey
Every year hundreds of thousands of people are sickened by food poisoning. In the U.S., 5000 people die. Improper food handling is the number one cause of these illnesses and fatalities. And the holiday season is prime time for food poisoning. And every year methods circulate about unconventional ways to cook a turkey. These are the unsafe methods that you should not use.
- Thanksgiving, Step by Step
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- Let's Talk Turkey!
This huge complex of ten articles addresses every step of the Thanksgiving meal. From appetizers to desserts, you'll find traditional, easy, and easier recipes and ideas for your harvest celebration.
- My Family's Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner
This is the menu we eat every year at Thanksgiving. It includes cherished family recipes and is, I think, the perfect meal.
- Turkey Breast Recipes
Cooking a turkey breast is an easy way to scale back Thanksgiving for smaller families or groups. And it's easy!
- Thanksgiving Crockpot Recipes
Most of use our crockpot to cook one or two dishes for Thanksgiving. But did you know that you can cook almost an entire Thanksgiving dinner in the crockpot? And it doesn't have to be an alternative Thanksgiving menu!
- The Easiest Traditional Thanksgiving Menu Ever!
This super simple, mostly make-ahead menu is one to serve when you want the traditional foods for your Thanksgiving feast, but are a beginning cook or just don't have the time or energy.
- Alternate Thanksgiving Ideas
Find recipes for Chandler's Thanksgiving meal (you know who I mean), Calvin Trillin's preferred meal, and scaled down treats that are simple and delicious. - Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes
And, the next few days, your refrigerator is stuffed full of leftovers! Find creative, easy, and delicious ways to use that food to feed your family and guests during this busy shopping weekend.
- More Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes
Thanksgiving is probably the biggest 'leftover' holiday of the year. And what leftovers! Tender turkey, lots of mashed potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes, stuffing, gravy ... the possibilities are almost endless. These recipes will see you through the weekend!
- Top Ten Leftover Turkey Recipes
These recipes are fabulous and easy ways to use leftover Thanksgiving turkey.
