Food Network Magazine December 2022

Milk It Pour a tall glass of milk to go with the cookies on page 103: Consuming 1,200 milligrams of calcium a day could help prevent kidney stones, and you’ll get almost half of that from 16 ounces of whole milk! SOURCE: MAYO CLINIC Pretty as a Pomegranate This ruby red beauty can keep you looking your best: Pomegranates are full of vitamin C, which is important for healthy skin. Use pomegranate seeds to dress up the cheese ball on page 51 or throw a handful into a salad. The Spice Is Right Add a little extra cinnamon to the gingerbread cupcakes on page 26—it’s good for your heart! Studies show that the spice can help protect your body from cardiovascular disease, plus it’s a powerful anti-inflammatory. SOURCE: JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL FOODS Let’s Get Together Here’s another reason to…

What is your favorite charity? “The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and the United Network for Organ Sharing equally hold a special place in my heart, and I’ve given to them for more than 20 years. They put donations to good use saving lives.” For information, visit crohnscolitisfoundation.org and unos.org Sunny Anderson The Kitchen pg. 50 Katie Lee Biegel The Kitchen; What Would Katie Eat? (on foodnetwork.com) pg. 92 “I’m on the board of Food Bank for New York City, where we work together with other New Yorkers to help families within the community that are in need.” For information, visit foodbanknyc.org Kardea Brown Delicious Miss Brown pg. 54 “I love Fresh Future Farm. It provides fresh food access to African American residents in North Charleston, SC, hit hard by food apartheid.” For information, visit freshfuturefarm.org Ree Drummond Christmas Cookie Challenge; The Pioneer Woman pg.…

One of our editors, Liz Sgroi, had a great idea a few Decembers ago: She thought we should build gingerbread replicas of our bosses’ houses. It would be the perfect holiday gift for executives who seemed to have everything, so we set out with a small group of staff volunteers to make four bespoke masterpieces. First, we had to secretly gather images of the properties: We dug up old holiday cards to find addresses, then we scoured Google Earth and asked assistants to sneak us photos so we could get the details right—the shutters, the landscaping, the doorknobs. We had shelves full of candies for decorating and all the enthusiasm in the world, but we failed to consider two things: (1) executives tend to live in large homes and (2)…

Prep 20 MIN Total 45 MIN Ingredients 4 Servings 32 Ingredients 2 cans (8 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Original Crescent Rolls (8 Count)2 packages (5.5 oz each) garlic & herbs Boursin® cheese1 tablespoon butter, melted2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves 1 Heat oven to 375°F. Line large cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper. Separate dough into 16 triangles. Use kitchen scissors or knife to cut each triangle in half lengthwise.2 Spoon about 2 teaspoons cheese on shortest side of each triangle. Roll up each, starting at shortest side of triangle and rolling to opposite point. Using photo as a guide, place crescents next to each other in tree-shaped pattern on cookie sheet, starting with trunk and working up to top.3 Bake 20 to 24 minutes or until deep golden brown. Brush with melted butter; sprinkle with parsley.…

Hue New Butterfly pea flower isn’t exactly a liquor-cabinet staple, but it’s the star ingredient in Butterfly Cannon Blue, a new color-changing tequila. Add an acidic mixer like citrus juice and watch it turn from blue to pink! Baking in Color Girl Meets Farm star Molly Yeh recently launched a line of kitchenware at Macy’s—in her signature dreamy colors. “The only thing better than holiday baking is holiday baking with happy, colorful bakeware!” Molly says. The Next Big Decaf Super-charged, caffeine-packed java may be all the rage, but this new arrival is for decaf lovers: FigBrew’s Figgee is a coffee made entirely from roasted figs—and it tastes like a regular cup of joe! Book for Cooks You’ll find all sorts of delicious desserts in these new releases. Sheet Pan Sweets Learn how to whip up galettes, cakes and breads…

A Gingerbread Christmas As a Holiday Baking Championship judge for eight years, Duff Goldman knows a thing or two about gingerbread—so he was a natural to star in the new discovery+ movie A Gingerbread Christmas! He plays Mark Clemmons, a food celebrity who hosts a gingerbread-house competition that Hazel Stanley (actress Tiya Sicar) sets out to win to save her family’s floundering bakery. Stream the movie and whip up some of Duff’s gingerbread cupcakes to go with it! —Kate Franke DUFF GOLDMAN’S GINGERBREAD CUPCAKES ACTIVE: 30 min l TOTAL: 50 min (plus cooling) l MAKES: 24 FOR THE CUPCAKES 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature½ cup granulated sugar2 large eggs1 cup molasses2 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon ground ginger¼ teaspoon ground cloves½ teaspoon ground cinnamon¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg½ teaspoon salt2 teaspoons baking soda1 cup boiling water FOR…