https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/holiday-season-recipes/ a culinary genealogy Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:48:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/holiday-season-recipes/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/leftover-thanksgiving-turkey-congee/ https://thewoksoflife.com/leftover-thanksgiving-turkey-congee/#comments Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:45:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=7015 Ok, people! I am pretty certain that you’ve never seen this take on Thanksgiving leftovers before, and I am super excited to let you in on our family tradition. For as long as I’ve known Bill and his family, which is almost 30 years now, Thanksgiving Turkey Congee (or jook) has been and will always ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/leftover-thanksgiving-turkey-congee/feed/ 137 https://thewoksoflife.com/perfect-turkey-gravy-recipe/ https://thewoksoflife.com/perfect-turkey-gravy-recipe/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:02:18 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=19626 Up until now, I’ve never thought about sharing a turkey gravy recipe. At our house, making the gravy for Thanksgiving dinner has always just been the assumed final step of cooking a turkey. You marinate and roast the turkey using our go-to Thanksgiving turkey recipe, and then just use the pan drippings to make gravy…right? ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/perfect-turkey-gravy-recipe/feed/ 19 https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/ https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:51:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=16673 If your mind is turning to holiday gifting, we’ve got a gift guide for every kind of person in your life, whether they be unfailingly practical, a constant traveler, a little artsy, a homebody, or fashion-forward. Check out our other gift guides! You might have seen that we have two other gift guides that are ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/holiday-gift-guide-woksoflife/feed/ 17 https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/ https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:50:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=77086 Host or Hostess gifts can be so much more than a bottle of wine or other alcohol! A gift for the host of your evening (whatever gender they may be) is a lovely opportunity to preemptively thank them for the fun you’ll have and retroactively thank them for the time, thought, and effort that went ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/the-hostess-gifts-holiday-gift-guide/feed/ 2 https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/ https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:50:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=77139 It’s our Kitchen and Garden gift guide, full of the select items we reach for again and again—for that cooking and/or gardening enthusiast in your life. The Kitchen and Garden Gift Guide Around the holidays, we often get questions from family and friends on the “best of” cooking tools. What’s worth it, what’s not, and ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/gift-guide-kitchen-and-garden/feed/ 0 https://thewoksoflife.com/milk-bread-2/ https://thewoksoflife.com/milk-bread-2/#comments Sat, 15 Apr 2023 13:30:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=8013 This Asian milk bread recipe is a triumph. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that for months, we’ve searched, tested, and failed time and time again to nail down a perfect recipe for soft, buttery, fluffy milk bread. Until that is, when we finally did it! This recipe was originally posted January 17, 2015, ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/milk-bread-2/feed/ 1939 https://thewoksoflife.com/30-holiday-recipes/ https://thewoksoflife.com/30-holiday-recipes/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:10:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=23708 The holidays are fast approaching, and we’ve got over 35 holiday recipes, new and old, savory and sweet! This might be obvious given what we do here on the blog, but the food is the main event of any holiday. This is the time of year when all of our nostalgia-laden favorite family recipes get ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/30-holiday-recipes/feed/ 54 https://thewoksoflife.com/jasmine-shortbread-cookies/ https://thewoksoflife.com/jasmine-shortbread-cookies/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2022 05:29:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=69387 These buttery jasmine shortbread cookies are subtly flavored with ground jasmine tea leaves,  making them the perfect complement for a hot cup of tea on a cold winter day.  Note: We partnered with Frontier Co-op to bring you this Jasmine Shortbread Cookie recipe. As always on  The Woks of Life, all opinions are our own. Enjoy! Let ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/jasmine-shortbread-cookies/feed/ 19 https://thewoksoflife.com/go-to-macaroni-cheese/ https://thewoksoflife.com/go-to-macaroni-cheese/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:33:22 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=69023 Finally, we’ve found our family’s perfect Macaroni and Cheese! This mac and cheese is everything I want—it has a creamy cheese sauce, with delicious fall flavors that meld together perfectly: rosemary, nutmeg, garlic, and bay leaf. I know what you’re thinking. It’s the DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING AND NOW YOU POST THIS MAC & CHEESE?! NOW?!! ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/go-to-macaroni-cheese/feed/ 38 https://thewoksoflife.com/thanksgiving-memories/ https://thewoksoflife.com/thanksgiving-memories/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:38:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=11958 With Thanksgiving just a couple weeks away, we’re rounding up ALL of our family’s favorite Thanksgiving recipes on the blog. Every year we try to update this post with new musings and recipes, so even if you are a longtime reader, read on! Thanksgiving: the super bowl of the food world Thanksgiving has become the ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/thanksgiving-memories/feed/ 110