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When it comes to food gifts, we highly suggest anything that’s been homemade with love. Unfortunately, this time of year, not everyone has a ton of extra time to make treats for everyone on their list.

Instead, consider gifting one of these fun ingredients. They’re more exciting than a bottle of ketchup and not likely something people think to buy for themselves.

Just tie a pretty ribbon around it or put it in a cute gift bag (anything with a polka dot is a win) and call it a day.

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From Apartment Therapy → Decorating Drama: 10 Really Big Plants You Can Grow Indoors

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These lively gingerbread-spiced chocolate chip cookies are easy to make and even easier to eat. When it comes to texture, this is a classic chocolate chip cookie — crisp on the outside, tender on the inside — but tucked into that dough is something extra special.

The bright taste of ginger packs a fun and surprising wallop. The warm winter spices add a festive note and a pinch of heat, while the chocolate chips offer familiar and delicious comfort and oozy goodness in every bite. These are the cookies to make when you want something new and impressive during the holiday season.

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Leave it up to Dorie Greenspan, the doyenne of cookies, to come up with a new way to get your blondie fix. She starts with a classic dough — full of butter, more brown sugar than white, and a handful of mix-ins — that make this recipe distinctly her own.

The real trick with these blondies, however, is how you bake them. Hold off on your trusty baking pan because a muffin tin is truly the better way for this classic cookie treat.

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December is notoriously busy with holiday activities. Between baking for cookie swaps, shopping for gifts, and attending your kid’s Christmas pageant, it’s hard to find time to cook delicious, satisfying meals. Enter: this creamy one-pan chicken with mushrooms, spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, and linguine.

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Choosing a cookie sheet can be complicated business. Between all the possible variations on offer — aluminum, nonstick, perforated, heavy-duty, with a rim, without a rim — there are enough options for whatever sort of cookie you’re baking. But unless you’re making hundreds of cookies a day in a bakery, all those options aren’t necessary.

Most home cooks only really need one sheet — and it’s not a cookie sheet at all.

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Research out of the University of Maine are challenging the “jolly fat” hypothesis. The researchers found that bigger people, as defined by high body mass index, are less happy as they get older. There was a correlation between the impact of being overweight and resulting limited functionality leading to depression. However, having depressive symptoms did not predict that someone would become obese later in life. The results were the same for both men and women.

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