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Filed under: Recipes, Fruit, High-fructose corn syrup, Thanksgiving, Christmas When it comes to cranberry sauce, I've always been partial to the canned stuff. I like the shape that the can makes, and I like the simplicity of it - just crank it open and give it a couple of jiggles. However, this year, when I went to pick up the standard can, I ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Books, Raves & ReviewsFor Christmas, I received a super-cool vegan cookbook (thanks, Mom!) that's become my new favorite. I find that some veggie/vegan cookbooks, while gorgeous and filled with fantastic recipes, have an air of pretension about them that irks me as I struggle to, say, wrap my ...

Filed under: Dessert, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Recipes, Candy, Baking, How To, Spices, Sugar, Christmas We're a little behind on our a Cookie-a-Day, but we'll try to catch up before the end of the year. We have to! Starting on January 1, all of us will be forgoing cookies, candy, doughnuts, and cake, as per our New Year's Resolutions, ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Sugar, Holidays, ChristmasFor the next two weeks I'm in Portland, Oregon, hanging out with my parents for the holidays. One of the first things I did when I got here was pull down my mom's old recipe notebook and start flipping through. She's had this collection of recipes since before I was born, although she ...

Filed under: Chocolate, Recipes, Baking, Christmas Believe me, they taste a lot better than they look. I started out this day with a simple plan: make some Ghirardelli White Chocolate and Macadamia Cookies for my Cookie-A-Day post. Three hours and one trip to the store later, I came out with Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. It's a long ...

Filed under: Recipes, Baking, On the Blogs, Holidays, Christmas Is there any other cookie that symbolizes the holiday season, in shape and look, than a cookie shaped like a star? It has that Christmas look, and it's a cookie you'd want to hang on your tree as much as eat it. I scoured the web and found a punch of different star cookie recipes ...

Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Chocolate, Recipes, Fruit, Candy, Baking, How To, Eggs, America, Sugar, Christmas At this point in the grand game we call ''The Race to Finish Holiday Baking,'' we're looking at cookies and confections that are easy, fast, but still have that ''ooooh''-inducing factor. Perhaps the easiest thing I've ever come across in ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, Sugar, Christmas Here's another recipe from that 1984 Woman's Day Holiday Cookie pull out. They are a Dutch bar cookie served around the holidays and are fairly easy to pull together. I think they are my favorite of all the cookies I've baked so far this season as they come out light, crispy and buttery. ...

Filed under: Recipes, Magazines, in sixty seconds The classic food mag gets a makeover. Here's a letter from Editor-in-Chief Barbara Fairchild explaining the new look. The magazine picks the best dishes of the year, including the Indulgence of the Year, the Cuisine of the Year, the Ingredient of the Year, and the Dish of the Year. ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Baking, On the Blogs, Sugar, ChristmasI've been wrapped up in finishing my masters thesis this last week (thankfully it's finally all done) so I haven't done much in the way of holiday baking. So today, instead of offering you a recipe that I've tried and can vouch for, I'm pointing you in the direction of a recipe for ...