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Every year, people talk about the hottest new toy for kids. Whether it’s a Cabbage Patch Kid, a Tickle Me Elmo, or Fingerlings, there’s always one It Toy that parents go to great lengths to acquire for their kids. While those toy trends come and go, there’s one toy for the grown-ups that is as covetable this Christmas as it was 20 years ago. (And you don’t have to elbow your way through a crowd to get one!)

Of course, we’re talking about the KitchenAid Stand Mixer. Each holiday season, year after year, loads of lucky home bakers get spoiled with a brand-new KitchenAid Stand Mixer. In case you’re hoping to spoil someone (that someone can be yourself!), we decided to round up all the best sales we could find on the small appliance.

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Of all the methods we’ve come across for fitting in fitness, none are as convenient and easily applied as Bruce Lee’s morning static contraction circuit.

Life in the 21st century is busy. Between work deadlines, traffic, taking the kids to their various activities, keeping the house from falling apart, and, of course, our constant accessibility to the immediate needs of other people (thank you, smartphone for that 8 pm work email), it can feel like life has gotten out of your control.

 

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Dear Marge,

I’m planning my annual Friendsgiving, and I don’t want to repeat my hosting crisis from last year — but I’m not sure what I can do to prevent it.

I love to entertain, even in my small place. I plan my menu really carefully and try to make the table look beautiful. Last year, I invited as many friends as I could fit (12!), and scrounged to make the seating work around my regular table plus a borrowed folding table.

When one of my friends showed up at the door with her brand-new “boyfriend,” (I acknowledge the condescension implicit in the quotation marks but read on!) I sort of stammered hello as I scrambled to figure out how to squeeze another seat at the already-crowded table. Not only that, I didn’t have another whole place setting. So much for my carefully planned tablescape — I used an old chipped dinner plate and gave him a regular water glass for his wine. Also, I had made exactly 12 individual chocolate budinos, and spent half the meal trying to figure out how I would serve them to 13 people.

I think it was rude of my friend to just show up with her new guy. She has long since broken up with him (it turned out to be a three-week fling), but how do I prevent this from happening again? And if it does happen, what do I do? It seriously ruined a night that I was really looking forward to.

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The turkey’s ready to go in the oven, the potatoes are mashed, the stuffing is going well, but … shoot! Where’s the cranberry sauce? Even the best list-makers and party-planners sometimes forget that one ingredient that was going to make or break a dish and have to run out at the last minute. Thankfully, some grocery stores stay open on the big day, ready to save Thanksgiving and let you pretend nothing ever went wrong.

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I love the sweet-savory taste of roasted onions, but who has time to make them? (Okay, maybe I do actually have the time, but sometimes I get lazy — or, more likely, hungry and impatient.)

Fortunately, I have discovered a life-changing pantry ingredient that delivers the same umami deliciousness with a flick of the wrist: granulated toasted onion powder. Created by dry-roasting fresh onions until they reach a rich brown hue, it amps up the flavor of any dish and immediately makes it more complex — less thrown together, more I labored over this. Hear me out on this one.

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Whether you or some of your guests are gluten-free, it’s important to have dishes at the table that meet this dietary need. Luckily, there’s no shortage of options. Naturally gluten-free ingredients like wild rice and cornmeal, along with favorites like potatoes and squash, are already regulars on the Thanksgiving table, so there are plenty of delicious recipes to choose from. Even standards that are usually off limits — like dinner rolls and pie crust — can be made gluten-free with a little ingenuity. Here are 15 recipes to inspire your menu.

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Williams Sonoma is like FAO Schwartz for grown-ups — especially grown-ups like us, who get excited about things like Dutch ovens and artisan sea salt. So you can imagine our excitement when we got our hands on the retailer’s finalized Black Friday deals, of which there are many. The retailer is seriously offering dozens and dozens of sales — including 40 percent off KitchenAid appliances, up to 60 percent off Global knives, 50 percent off Riedel Overture gift sets, and more.

While all the major retailers are having sales for (and around!) Black Friday, these exclusive-to-Williams Sonoma sales offer some of the best prices in town. Here are the five brands and products you should definitely shop for at Williams Sonoma.

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Even when everyone’s contributing, the Thanksgiving host ends up doing the bulk of the work. Between getting the entire house guest-ready, pulling the folding chairs out of storage, and getting the silverware polished and the linens pressed — not to mention the making of labor-intensive foods like turkey and pies and all the prep and cleanup that goes into it — it’s a pain in the butt. That’s why it’s especially kind to bring a little something to thank your host for having everyone over.

Usually people pick up a bottle of wine, a candle, or a small gift that perfectly suits someone. But we’ve got one idea that will trump any of those ideas (and all the other ones, too). That is, the gift of not cooking.

How to give the gift of not cooking? There are two main ways.

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Researchers have developed a drug that may have “potentially life-saving properties” for children who suffer from peanut allergies. The drug won’t cure peanut allergies in children, but rather decrease the chances that accidentally ingesting peanuts will lead to a life-threatening allergic reaction, according to a report from The New York Times.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll eagerly say it again every November: Stuffing is the real star of the Thanksgiving table. (At least in my house!) Whether you’re serving turkey, ham, or something entirely different, your holiday dinner is not complete without a casserole dish piled high with stuffing, baked so it’s crispy on the outside and soft and tender through the center.

The only difficult part is deciding what kind of stuffing to serve. There are a ton of options when it comes to stuffing — from golden-brown classics with lots of fresh herbs, to more modern takes that swap in cornbread or smart supermarket shortcuts. To help you figure out what to put on the table this year, we’ve rounded up 10 of our all-time favorite stuffing recipes below.

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