Ho! Ho! Ho! and Merry Christmas, Serious Eaters! Please enjoy our version of the famous WPIX Yule Log program. For your enjoyment, we give you the Burning Bûche. Everyone here at Serious Eats wishes you and all your extended family the happiest of holidays. We hope all of your holiday wishes come true....
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Of course you're going to want to leave some cookies for Santa tonight. If you don't already have a recipe in mind, here are some of our favorites from the Serious Eats Recipes archives. The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie EverWorld Peace Cookies (fairly appropriate on Christmas Eve, no?)SnickerdoodlesMolasses Cookies (to slow him down and sneak a peek)Rick Katz's Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies...
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Instead of making traditional cutout cookies, try Elise Bauer's recipe for stained glass cookies whose centers are filled with melted hard candies....
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“A merry Christmas, Bob!” said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. “A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss our affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!” A Christmas Carol regularly gets trotted out this time of year (or DVDs of Scrooge McDuck cartoons do, anyway), to mark the holiday with Dickens’ tale of redemption. While Tiny Tim’s treacly “God bless us, every one!” is enough to...
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Christmas is less than a week away, which means it's time for my mother and me to resume our annual debate: Is it too soon for another turkey dinner? I say yes. Thanksgiving was barely a month ago, and my memories of the meal (unlike the half bag of cranberries in my fridge and the shriveled sweet potato in my vegetable drawer) are still fresh. Not to mention the fact that I ate leftover turkey sandwiches for days afterward. For the upcoming holiday feast, I think a roast beef would be perfect, particularly when rubbed with fresh herbs, studded with garlic, and finished with port sauce. Lobsters, in their festive red shells, would also be lovely. Or why not...
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"Imagine a Christmas ham, sealed in plastic and defrosting in the fridge. Imagine the cloudy ham water that leaks out of it and sits in the bottom of the plastic when you unwrap the ham. Imagine it carbonated and sweetened. Imagine putting it into your mouth and manfully fighting the automatic gag reflex." Thanks to The A.V. Club's review of Jones Soda Christmas Pack, I now know what I want to serve at my Christmas dinner!...
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The Hansel and Gretel aesthetic is so outdated. This year why not decorate your holiday table with a modern gingerbread house? No colorful gumdrop roofs or candy cane lanes here—just a garage, a rock garden, palm trees, and an asymmetrical roof. [via notcot.org]...
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In this week's gusticomic,
The Amateur Gourmet forsakes Jewish tradition in favor of pine and swine. How does his first Christmas ham turn out? Oy veh!
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