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Make one of these, and you'll be potluck VIP.
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The best cookbooks to give as gifts this holiday season 2016
If all else fails, they make for beautiful coffee table art.
Restaurants open on Christmas Day
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Restaurants open on Christmas Eve 2016
It's Christmas Eve — get out of the house and treat yourself to pancakes!
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You can slow cook a ham!
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A reindeer-shaped piñata = you won the holidays.
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