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Feb 03 2024
Christmas entertaining doesn’t always require an elaborate menu. Sometimes the foods everyone remembers most are the little things scattered around the table—the cheese and crackers people nibble while talking, a warm pastry fresh from the oven, or a bite-size appetizer that disappears before dinner even begins. These five easy and festive Christmas snacks offer a …
Feb 02 2024
Few homemade treats look as festive as a jar of brilliant ruby-red cranberry jam. With its jewel-like color and naturally Christmassy flavor, this simple fruit spread feels as though it was made for December breakfasts, holiday cheese boards, Christmas baking, and homemade gifts. The beautiful jam pictured on the page is thick and rustic rather …
Feb 02 2024
Christmas dinner may be famous for roasted vegetables, creamy casseroles, buttery potatoes and decadent desserts, but a beautiful seasonal salad can be every bit as memorable. Crisp greens, jewel-bright pomegranate seeds, winter pears, cranberries, toasted nuts and colorful vegetables bring freshness to the table while looking wonderfully festive. These five Christmas salad recipes are designed …
Feb 02 2024
There is something wonderfully festive about a Christmas punch bowl. Whether it is filled with sparkling cranberry punch surrounded by floating orange slices or a warm, fragrant drink scented with cinnamon and cloves, punch has a way of turning an ordinary drinks table into part of the celebration. These 12 Christmas punch recipes offer a …
Jan 24 2024
Christmas baking doesn’t always have to mean rich chocolate, buttery cookies and heavy desserts. Peppermint meringue kisses offer something completely different: crisp, airy little sweets that practically dissolve on your tongue, with a cool burst of peppermint and beautiful swirls of Christmas red and green. They look wonderfully impressive piled onto a white platter, tucked …
Jan 21 2024
Ugly Christmas sweaters have become one of the most playful parts of holiday dressing. The whole point is to forget about understated good taste for an evening and embrace blinking lights, pom-poms, tinsel, oversized reindeer, dangling ornaments and as much Christmas cheer as one sweater can possibly hold. Even better, you don’t have to buy …
Jan 21 2024
There is something especially welcoming about a Christmas wreath made from real evergreen branches. Before anyone sees the tree, the stockings or the presents, a wreath on the front door offers the first little glimpse of Christmas waiting inside. And while professionally made wreaths can be beautiful, creating your own gives you complete freedom over …
Jan 17 2024
For many families, Christmas dinner simply wouldn’t look complete without a magnificent glazed ham in the center of the table. Deeply burnished around the edges, glossy with a sweet-and-savory glaze and sliced into rosy ribbons, it is the sort of centerpiece that announces dinner before anyone has taken the first bite. Fortunately, Christmas ham is …
Jan 10 2024
Decorating Christmas cookies is one of those holiday traditions that can be as simple or as elaborate as you want it to be. A batch of plain stars, trees, gingerbread people and candy canes becomes something completely different once bowls of red, green and snowy-white icing appear on the kitchen table. The colorful cookies pictured …
Jan 07 2024
There is something particularly special about hanging handmade Christmas stockings each December. Unlike decorations chosen to match a temporary color scheme, stockings often become part of a family’s Christmas story—brought out year after year, filled on Christmas Eve and eventually associated with particular people and memories. They don’t have to be complicated, either. The colorful …
