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My now-husband and I have been together for over seven years and we’ve navigated our way through a number of stressful situations. But holiday planning, namely for Christmas, has never been one of them. Between family distance and work obligations (he’s always traveling), we settled the issue by each going our separate ways: He went to his family’s celebration and I went to mine.

But now that we’re married — we ran to City Hall this past June — we have some more thinking to do about the holiday. Take one close-knit family, add another close-knit family, divide by one newly married couple, and what do you get? The answer, it turns out, is simpler than I imagined.

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Latkes get all the attention this time of year — as they should, latkes are awesome — but another Hanukkah treat has been gaining in popularity stateside in recent years. Put your hands together for the jelly doughnut.

What the two have in common symbolically is also the ingredient that makes both so delicious: oil.

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When it comes to holiday drinking, eggnog is only the beginning. Many cultures and cuisines proudly claim a Christmas punch and this week we’re bringing you The Global Punch Bowl with five festive punches, each with a story of their own.

There was still one week left for Christmas and the fridge was already full of bottles of this mysterious café con leche-like beverage with a funny name (cola de mono literally means “monkey tail”) that my parents offered to any adult visitor (usually very old, very single, and very Catholic ladies) as a way of not getting the hiccups when eating the often dry and impossibly sweet, pan de pascua — an awesome but very dense Chilean fruit cake.

My dad would have devoted a whole Saturday morning to boiling milk with spices, managing to cover the entire kitchen with sugar, coffee, and pisco. I couldn’t drink it, because “tiene trago, mijita” (it contains alcohol, my dear). My mom would say this to me after chugging her glass and before congratulating my dad on his innate talent for cola de mono-making.

But I would not settle for that.

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It’s not like anyone throws a dinner party for the sheer point of putting it on Instagram. The social media part is just a fun bonus! Help your friend get #allthelikes with this sleek-yet-practical kitchen gear.

Take a peek at 15 gifts that’ll make any table look good.

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From Apartment Therapy → Here Are the Top Pinterest Home Trends for 2017

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How To Make Homemade Eggnog

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Already had your fill of rich and creamy eggnog, but still have half a carton lingering in the fridge? Don’t ditch it just yet. When you’re tired of drinking eggnog (yes, I know, it can happen), here are 10 tasty ways to put the leftovers to work.

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When you need to get dinner on the table for your family, but you’ve also got a bunch of other stuff to do (like, say, wrap all those holiday gifts), chicken quesadillas come to the rescue. But not just any quesadillas — these come with a smart, mostly hands-off way to make them happen on busy weeknights.

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Hanukkah is the time of food, family, friends, and lots of fried food! Our apple fritters fit perfectly into the fried category for the traditionalists, but we have a few not-so-fried desserts such as our apple-yogurt cake for those who are taking a lighter, more modern approach this year.

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