The Best Way to Keep Pancakes and Waffles Warm — Brunch Tips from The Kitchn

Arguably the trickiest part of making big-batch breakfasts of pancakes and waffles is delivering everything to the table at the same time, still warm and just as good as it is right off the griddle. But it’s totally possible, and actually pretty easy to pull off.

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7 Christmas Trifles That Belong on Your Dessert Table — Recipe Roundup

When it comes to holiday desserts, pies, fudge, and cookies are always traditional favorites. There’s another treat, however, that you need to consider making this year. Trifles are a classic English dessert that are usually layered with sponge cake, fruit, and custard, but there’s a lot of room for creativity. Your guests will appreciate this showstopper, and you will be thankful trifle is deceivingly impressive.

Here are seven Christmas-inspired trifle recipes that deserve a spot on your holiday table this year. From a peppermint cheesecake trifle, to a gorgeous cranberry orange trifle, you have a lot of options.

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Budweiser Rings in the Holidays with Limited-Edition Packaging — Food News

Starbucks gets all the glory when it comes to its red holiday cups, but there’s another beverage in town that also deserves a little more seasonal recognition. To ring in the 140th year of selling to the American public during the holiday season, Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser has unveiled brand new, limited edition seasonal packaging — just in time for the start of 2016 Christmas festivities.

Inspired by the tradition of decorating the 12 U.S. Budweiser breweries for the holidays, the lager company has decked out their twist-off beer bottles in a tonal Christmas red, making this a must-have collector’s item for the Budweiser superfan in your life.

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Trick Your Family into Eating These Pickle-Flavored Candy Canes — Grocery News

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Savory candy canes might seem like an oxymoron, or more like something a mad culinary scientist would dream up, but I’m here to tell you they are real. The Seattle-based retailer Archie McPhee, the same folks behind cheeky snack products like bacon-flavored jelly beans and absinthe gumballs, have now given the world pickle candy canes. Yes, you read that correctly.

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I know we all associate December with cookies, cocktails, yule logs and latkes, but what about the smaller, enduring festivities that often go overlooked, namely workplace and other potluck luncheons? Because my “coworkers” are basically a laptop and occasionally these wild things, my current participation level is limited, but I know that usually what happens is that it’s rather easy to bring cookies and cakes but as nobody wants to drag a roast on the subway and then heat it up in the breakroom microwave, main dishes are harder to nail down.

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I am here to help. I found myself wracking my brain a few weeks ago for something to make for my husband’s work potluck — and unfortunately, heh, as someone recognized him early in his tenure there as my husband, I cannot get away with sending him in with a box of Dunkin Donuts, drat — and ended up making two of these galettes. They fit the bill of being something that’s delicious cold or at room temperature, but they are a bit of work. Five minutes after sending him off, I realize the perfect solution was here the whole time.

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21 Essential Apple Recipes for Fall — Recipes from The Kitchn

It just wouldn’t be fall without apples. Once the first crop arrives, we just can’t get enough of them, whether eaten as is, sliced as a snack, baked into warm treats, or even added to savory dishes. Here are 21 of our best apple recipes for the season.

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The 3 Post-Thanksgiving Recipes We’d Make All Year Long — The Post-Thanksgiving Refrigerator

Thanksgiving food in its most classic form — stuffed and piled onto a plate — is all well and good, but it’s hard to deny the glory of leftovers. They just may be the reason we make all those side dishes in the first place. This year, we’re saving any bits of stuffing and turkey per usual, but turning to new ways of reinventing them.

These three recipes take the best parts of the Thanksgiving meal and roll them into something you might never have thought of before — making them crowd-pleasing and craveable enough that we’d really like to make them all year long.

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5 Steps for Cleaning Out Your Post-Thanksgiving Fridge — The Post-Thanksgiving Refrigerator

For those first few days after Thanksgiving, you’re on top of the world. Every time you open the fridge you’ve got turkey, sides, appetizers, cheese, biscuits, and desserts. You don’t have to cook for a week!

Eventually the leftovers dwindle, your family threatens mutiny if one more meal has turkey in it, or the fridge starts to look like a picked-over supermarket before a storm.

Any of those things are signs it’s time to purge! Get in there and get that fridge ready for Christmas or holiday parties — because they’re right around the corner.

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