Get ready for the coziest month of the year.
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1. Five-Ingredient Carnitas Soup
Why have boring chicken soup when you could have carnitas soup?
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2. Fried Mac and Cheese Balls
Sometimes, you just need to indulge.
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3. Monkey (Ginger) Bread
Whoever had the idea to combine monkey bread and gingerbread deserves a medal.
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4. Slow Cooker Creamy Wild Rice Soup With Butter Roasted Mushrooms
One of the best ways to take advantage of mushroom season.
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5. Marshmallow Cream Fudge
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You know what's even better than fudge? Marshmallow cream fudge.
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6. Brie Stuffed Crispy Baby Potatoes
This is it, we all just peaked.
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8. Sweet Potato Gnocchi With Rosemary Parmesan Cream Sauce
Gnocchi game: strong.
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9. Italian Stuffed Cabbage
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If you're still scarred by bad childhood cabbage memories, give this recipe a try and you'll see this misunderstood vegetable in a whole new light.
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10. White Chocolate Mocha
It's the season of warm, comforting drinks, and you won't find more comforting than this one.
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11. Overnight Cardamom Stollen Swirl Buns
Cardamom buns are a classic Swedish treat, and we all know how much Swedes rule at winter.
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12. Bacon and Brussels Sprout Salad
The perfect refreshing treat when you need a break from all that melted cheese and hot chocolate.
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13. Cardamom Orange Sugar Cookies
It's sugar cookies season, AKA the best season.
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14. Potato-Parsnip Latkes With Horseradish and Dill
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We all love traditional latkes, but if you want to try something new this Hanukkah, add parsnip to the mix.
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15. Spiced Glazed Nuts and Pretzel Mix
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Not your average nut mix.
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16. Cauliflower Kale Soup With Kale Chips
If kale is still intimidating to you, mixing it with cauliflower could be the perfect way to develop a taste for it.
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17. Cinnamon Spiced Dutch Baby With Cranberry Butter
The new star of your winter brunches.
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18. Roasted Cauliflower, Mushroom and Wild Rice
You can make this dish vegan by replacing the Parmesan with a sprinkle of nutritional yeast.
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19. Healthy-ish Gingerbread Muffins
Coconut oil, whole wheat flour, and maple syrup are the secret ingredients of these muffins.
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20. Seared Radicchio and Roasted Beets
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Make sure to really sear the radicchio to infuse your dish with an amazing smokey flavor.
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21. Spiced Apple Cider With Bourbon
Christmas in a mug.
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22. Deep Dark Gingerbread Waffles
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23. Beet Soup
The best way to bring some color to your winter table.
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24. Winter Salad With Pecans, Pears and Gorgonzola
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Because salad isn't just a summer thing, but if you do it in the winter, you gotta do it right.
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25. Spaghetti With Anchovy Sauce
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If you hate anchovies, don't worry. In this recipe, they add a wonderful depth of flavor to the tomato sauce, but if you didn't know they were there, you wouldn't be able to guess.
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26. Christmas Spiced Parsnip Cake
Another Swedish classic that'll become one of your new Christmas faves.
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27. Cheesy Garlic Bread
Is there anything better than bread, cheese, and garlic? I think not.
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28. Cinnamon Streusel Baked Apples
For when you're too lazy to slice apples and make a pie dough.
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29. Sausage and Mushroom Bread Pudding
Almost too cozy for its own good.
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30. Seared Scallops With Herb Salad
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The best holiday appetizer.
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31. Frosted Malt-Chocolate Cookies
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This is just perfect and I want it now.
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