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Pork Crown Roast with Dried-Fruit-Sourdough Stuffing and Brandy Cream Sauce

Move over, turkey.

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Red Pozole with Chicken (Pozole Rojo Con Pollo)

This Mexican stew featuring chiles and hominy is perfect party food: it feeds a crowd and the toppings passed around the table add to the festive nature of the dish.

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Chocolate Irish Whiskey Cake

This recipe reimagines the classic whiskey-spiked Irish coffee as a decadent mocha layer cake filled with coffee-whiskey whipped cream and topped with white and dark chocolate shavings.

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Spice-Rubbed Roast Beef Tenderloin with Red Wine Sauce

This roast beef tenderloin looks glamorous and tastes amazing, yet it's practically foolproof.

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Knotted Dinner Rolls

Soft, rich, and worlds better than store-bought, these gorgeous, buttery dinner rolls are easier to make than you may think.

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Fresh Ham with Rosemary, Garlic, and Lemon

With just a few seasonings rubbed on a day ahead, a slow-roasted fresh ham (that is, an uncured, unsmoked hind leg of a hog), becomes a juicy, fork-tender, and fragrant holiday centerpiece.

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Cranberry-Almond Shortbread Tart

Inspired by fregolatas (large, crisp Italian cookies flavored with almonds and cornmeal), this sturdy bar-cookie-disguised-as-a-tart features a tangy cranberry filling between two tender layers of almond-cornmeal shortbread.

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Four Cheese and Tomato Lasagne

This classic combination is rich and flavorful, but thanks to thin sheets of homemade pasta, it’s also light and delicate.

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Classic Beef Wellington

If Britain has a holiday culinary showstopper; it's got to be beef Wellington.

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Vanilla Cut-Out Cookies

These classic holiday cookies can be cut into any size and shape, and you can change the flavor of the dough with one of the variations below.

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Butter-and-Herb-Roasted Turkey with Madeira Jus

Butter, garlic, and fresh herbs flavor this juicy roasted turkey.

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Pan-Roasted Brussels Sprout Gratin with Shallots and Rosemary

This rich, creamy side dish is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.

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