Category Archives: Holiday

brined turkey on left, compound butter rub with orange peels in the middle, and cooked turkey with thermometer on the right

My First Thanksgiving Turkey (And a Dead Cat)

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I successfully cooked my first Thanksgiving turkey this year! Here’s the step-by-step process I used to pull it off, along with the rest of my menu.

A different kind of stuffed turkey at the New York State Museum.

But first a shoutout to Tully, our beloved feline friend who passed away shortly before the holiday.

RIP Tully Nudi

We’d had Tully, named for the Firefly Lane character back before the book became a show, for 13 years. She was 15 when she died. For some reason I’d had it in my head that she would go at 20.

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8 excellent reasons to consider a real tree this year

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Does your family get a real tree every year, or do you have an artificial one you always take out of storage? 

If you typically use a fake tree, but are maybe open to switching up some Christmas traditions this year, here are eight great reasons why you should consider going for real over artificial.

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