“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” ~Seneca Happy Thanksgiving from our table to yours.
Former White House Social Secretary and co-author of Treating People Well with Jeremy Bernard.
Gifts from the Heart
If you’re going to spend Thanksgiving with friends or family, and you want to bring along a hostess gift that shows your appreciation without breaking the bank, these chocolate sea salt shortbread cookies are easy and impressive. You can even make the dough ahead of time and store in the freezer. Pop them in the oven, half-dip them in chocolate, and sprinkle with salt. They’re pretty, delicious, and they look like they take a lot more time to make than […]
Mashed Sweet and Spicy Sweet Potatoes by Matt Wendel
It’s Tex-Mex Thursday again, and I’m thrilled to pass along a recipe that puts a cheerful zing into what can be a traditional, but ordinary, Thanksgiving side dish. Matthew Wendel’s sweet and spicy sweet potatoes elevate a Thanksgiving staple to new heights: he uses chipotle chiles tempered with the soothing richness of Greek yogurt. If Matthew’s name is familiar to you, it’s because he worked for President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush at their ranch in Texas and at […]
Apple Cider Doughnuts with Chopped Walnuts
When I was growing up, my grandmother was friendly with another farming family who had orchards full of apples, pears, and stone fruits. It was a rite of fall for my mother and I to go to Schenks’ to buy apples, cider, and Italian plums for plum dumplings. We would walk past their farm stand to the apple cooler; its giant, maple-fronted steel door opened slowly, like a bank vault. Inside, the metallic fragrance of cold apples enveloped us, as […]
Thanksgiving Flowers
Flower arrangements are evolving, becoming more naturalistic, asymmetrical, and unstructured, to be more in tune with our comfortable homes and unfussy lifestyles. There are some gorgeous flowers out there these days, and I want to share a few ideas as the holidays approach. The flowers below, Queen Anne’s lace, rosehips, David Austin Juliet roses, heather, clematis, and copper beech leaves are not things you’d commonly see in one bouquet – yet it works, because the flowers are gathered into loose […]
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