If you’re skipping the sangria (you don’t have to — you can do it on a budget) or don’t want to be bothered with cocktails, but still want to do some sipping with Thanksgiving dinner, plan on having house bottles of white and red wine. Picking two wines and sticking to them throughout the night keeps things nice and easy from both a drinking and buying perspective: Choose the two wines you want to serve, and pick up a few bottles of each. Easy.
Now how many bottles of wine, you ask? Of course the simple answer is, it’s all relative. Or maybe the more accurate answer is, all the wine! But we’re grownups here, so we should at least have some idea of what we need — luckily this handy cheat sheet does just that.
Making a great cup of tea isn’t as difficult as you might think. The graphic above from the folks at Utility Journal shows you exactly how long you should steep each type of tea, and what the temperature of the water you use to make the tea should be.
Steeping times and temperatures are important, but a thermometer with a timer on it is all you need if you don’t even want to think that much about it. Usually you’ll need to bring your water to a boil and then turn off the heat for a little while to get the right temperature, but aside from that, it’s easy. Of course, make sure you start with quality tea as well. If you need help in that department, we have someguides for you. Hit the link below for more tea brewing tips.
Can you ever have too much mashed potatoes? Probably not, but since we aren’t one to assume, here’s a scalable formula that helps you figure out how to make mashed potatoes for a party of one all the way up to a table of 12.
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Get fancy with added garlic, herbs, and cheese at your own discretion. This formula is based on one serving. Multiply the potatoes, milk, and cream by the number of people you want to serve to scale up.
