My wife grew up making peanut butter balls every holiday season. She remembers mixing together the butter, peanut butter, and powdered sugar until it forms a dough that can be rolled into bite-sized balls.

Fair warning: this eggnog recipe contains raw eggs. It also contains lots of booze, which acts as a sterilizer and a preservative for the eggs and cream.

This soup really does stand out in the crowd. It’s exceptional. And, I bet you just might have some leftover Thanksgiving turkey in the fridge.

Feeling under the weather, the last thing I wanted to do was cook this week. What I really wanted was a homey, comforting plate of Swedish meatballs swimming in cozy gravy made by my Swedish aunt. One problem: I don’t have a Swedish aunt.

When I asked readers on social media to name the holiday cookie they absolutely have to have every year, I received dozens of responses. As I expected, there were the classic favorites: spiced gingerbread, frosted sugar cookies, thumbprints, peanut butter blossoms, snickerdood...

Here’s what I recommend instead of reinventing your leftovers: make yourself a cocktail. Then, kick your feet up. Plug in some Christmas lights. Listen to holiday music.

There’s no better time to pull out our treasured smoked salmon than during the holidays. It’s a time when we are cooking for a crowd and we are cooking to impress, to celebrate, and to give loved ones a taste of this Alaska life.

When I was growing up, there was one item that always made an appearance at Wilson holiday gatherings: Carol’s Rolls. While the turkey and the stuffing, the gravy and the sweet potatoes may have been nondescript, varying from year to year and household to household, Carol’...

This is my go-to, fail-proof recipe. The thing that sets it apart is the powdered sugar in the dough in lieu of granulated sugar. Powdered sugar helps the dough become beautifully pliable and the cookies, when baked, to be perfectly tender.

Fudge is a holiday essential. As people gather around the array of cookies and confections, there are those of us who clamor for the fudge. Families often have their secret recipes that they keep hidden, only bringing them out around Christmas.

This smoked salmon bagel is a staple. An Alaska must-have. A well-loved, well-used post. An obligatory Alaska from Scratch rite of passage. I serve it up year round for any meal of the day. When I give the gift of smoked wild Alaska salmon, this is the first thing I tell the r...

Weather: 36 degrees, above freezing… practically a heat wave! What I’m listening to: nothing, I’m mourning Christmas music It’s New Year’s resolution time. Truth be told, I’m not usually a resolution type of person. I can’t really...

Holiday season is bittersweet sometimes. I was just wrapping Christmas presents for my three children on the dining room table and all the while thinking about the school shooting this morning in Connecticut that left 20 children and 6 adults dead. There are just no words. I t...

“Mom, can you make me ratatouille? Just like this?” she says, shoving a phone in my face with a cartoon picture of plated food. “Um. Yeah. I can do that.” “Really?!” She’s beaming now. A welcome smile and infectious enthusiasm during C...

I had a night off from the restaurant, so I asked my wife what she wanted to do for ‘date night.’ “I want to make pizza,” she replied ahead of a long pause. “Mushroom pizza. With goat cheese.” My brain started buzzing with a recipe taking sh...

Tater tot casserole is not a dish I grew up with. I didn’t even know it was a thing. I also didn’t know that in places like Minnesota, it’s called tater tot hot dish.

If you’re looking for a show-stopping appetizer to serve at an upcoming holiday gathering, look no further than this crab artichoke dip.