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Menus and Mains

• A Winter Holiday Dinner Menu
• Lynne's Italian-American Family Holiday Menu
• New Year's Day Open House Menu
• A Holiday Vegan Feast
• Chicken Breasts with Garlic Wine from Paula Wolfert
• Nigella Lawson's Seafood Pot
• Roast Goose, Juniper Sauce & Lemon Puree
• Pearl Barley Risotto with Mushrooms and Carrots
• Slow Roasted Pork with Glazed Orange Slices
• Mussels with Saffron and Mustard
• Garlic-stuffed Roast Goose
• Crown Roast of Lamb with Saffron Rice and Apricot-mint sauce
• Supper Tart of Red Onion & Green Grapes
• Lynne's Fast & Crisp Roast Turkey Scented with Apple and Basil
• Fresh Basil-Orange Roast Turkey
• Pomegranate and Spice-Braised Pork
• Herb-Scented Tuscan Pork Roast
• Molasses-Glazed Pork Tenderloin with Seared Sweet and Sour Red Onions and Sage-Date Power Pack
• Roast Pork (Lechón Asado)

Cookie Exchange

• Chocolate Crinkle Cookies from Shirley Corriher
• Chili Spiked Mexican Wedding Cakes
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Grandma's All-Occasion Sugar Cookies from Dorie Greenspan
• Café Volcano Cookies from Dorie Greenspan
• Anise Cookies from Dorie Greenspan
• Lime Nut Buttons
• Lemon Butter Cookies from Dorie Greenspan
• Chocolate Macaroons from Dorie Greenspan
• Korova Cookies from Dorie Greenspan
• Chocolate Coins

Nibbles

• Pancetta Tartines
• Bruschetta of Wild Mushrooms
• Patè de Campagna
• Ham, Gruyère, and Dijon Palmiers
• Savory Fennel Parmesan Biscotti
• Brie Toasts with Chardonnay-Soaked Golden Raisins
• Cluster Haven's Pepper Mill Cheese Ball from Amy Sedaris

Drinks

• Pero Frizzante (sparkling pear cocktail)
• Vesper (James Bond's Martini)
• Mexican Hot Chocolate
• Mocha Voodoo
• Charles Dickens Hot Punch

Homemade Gifts

• Unwrapping the Holidays: D-I-Y Gift Wrap
• Seriously Good Improvisational Chocolates from Sally Schneider
• Vanilla Bean Syrup from Sally Schneider
• Lynne's Brandied Fruit
• Pears Pickled in Merlot
• Bittersweet Chocolate Cassis Truffles
• Folie of Fall Fruits (Brandied Fruits)
• Alt-Malted Milk Balls
• Miss Verba's Pimento Cheese
• Candied Grapefruit
• Cranberry Walnut Conserves

Sides

• Sweet Potato Puree with Hazelnut Soufflé from Russ Parsons
• Herman's Cornbread Stuffing
• Gingered Puree of Winter Roots
• Mustard-Glazed Red Cabbage
• 21st Century Mac and Cheese
• Galette of Sweet Yams
• Melting Greens
• Garlic Cauliflower "Mashed Potatoes"
• Carrot-Ginger Velvet
• Israeli Carrot Salad from Joan Nathan
• Perfect Potato Latkes
• Modena's Spiced Soup of Spinach and Cheese
• Braised Butternut Squash with Mustard Seeds, Chili, Curry Leaves, and Ginger?(Fricassee Giraumon) from Joan Nathan
• Pearl Barley Rissotto with Mushrooms and Carrots from Andrea Immer
• Leek "Noodles" with Crème Fraiche and Hazelnut Oil from Sally Schneider
• Cranberry-Citrus Relish with Pomegranate and Tequila

Sweets

• Chestnut Ricotta Cheesecake
• Double Pear Pudding Cake with Warm Caramel Cognac Sauce
• Chocolate Christmas Spicecake
• Triple Chocolate Flourless Christmas Log
• Apple Citron Turnover
• Rice Pudding Grand-Mere
• Guinness Gingerbread
• Sweet and Savory Quinces in White Wine and Honey
• Red Wine Jelly from Gail Monaghan's Lost Desserts
• Tuscan Apple Cake with A Crackly Meringue
• Lynne's French Chocolate Fudge Cake
• Chocolate Chile Cake
• Lynne's Pie in the Sky Apple Pie
• Richard Stolzman's Linzer Torte
• Dinner-on-the-Grounds Coconut Cake from Shirley Corriher
• Rustic Rosemary-Apple Galette from Sally Schneider
• Dark and Moist Gingerbread