Holiday Recipes

A Christmas ham is already cooked when you buy it. Your only real jobs are warming it without drying it out and giving it a glaze that tastes like a holiday. This honey glazed ham does both, and the glaze...

Christmas cookies are not the enemy. The problem is that most of them are butter and sugar with nothing else to hold you, so ten disappear before dinner. These protein sugar cookies are the classic cut-out kind, soft in the...

These maple balsamic Brussels sprouts are the side I put on the table to make everything else easier. Two pounds of halved sprouts roasted hot until the edges char, then tossed in a glaze that takes two minutes on the...

A healthy apple crisp should still taste like dessert. This one does. Six apples, a squeeze of lemon, cinnamon, and a couple of tablespoons of maple syrup, baked under a crunchy oat, almond, and pecan topping held together with real...

The turkey cranberry wrap is the leftover lunch that never gets old. Sliced turkey, a spoon of cranberry sauce, spinach, a little goat cheese, and a Greek yogurt Dijon spread instead of mayo, all rolled into a whole wheat tortilla...

By Friday afternoon, the turkey in the fridge stops being exciting. This leftover turkey soup is what I make with it. One pot, 40 minutes, and it turns a pound of leftover breast into six big bowls of something you...

The biggest Thanksgiving eating mistake I see has nothing to do with pie. It is skipping breakfast to save up calories, then arriving at the table starving. These pumpkin pie overnight oats are the fix: you make them Wednesday night...

A whole turkey is a lot of bird for a table of four to eight, and most of it ends up dry anyway. A roast turkey breast solves both problems. It feeds eight, it fits in a normal roasting pan...

Most stuffing is white bread, butter, and broth, and it tastes great for about four bites. This healthy stuffing starts with whole wheat bread you dry in the oven, adds lean turkey sausage, and gets its sweetness from a diced...

A low sugar cranberry sauce is one of the easiest wins on the whole Thanksgiving table. Cranberries are already tart and full of pectin, so they thicken on their own. All they need is a little orange and just enough...