One of the quickest ways to transition your home and make it cool weather ready is by bringing in heavier fabrics like velvet, faux fur, and leather alongside pops of colors reminiscent of the turning of the leaves, like browns, reds, oranges and yellows. These textures and visual cues of fall bring with them the added bonus of getting your home into a more festive place for the upcoming holiday season, too....
Designer Lisa Mende took cues from the outdoors when designing the multipurpose great room for Wesley Hall. “Find a color in nature and look at its complements,” Mende says. “That’s pretty much what I do.” The designer paired watery blue-greens reminiscent of the ocean with soft seashell-pink tones. Brown leather wing chairs by Wesley Hall feature patterned upholstery on their backs and arms. Pink ombré draperies accentuate the 22-foot-high ceiling....
As they prepared to move from a New York City apartment to a 1930s Georgian home in Greenwich, Connecticut, the duo (parents to three young kids) came to designers Bill Brockschmidt and Courtney Coleman with a bulging folder of magazine clippings in hand and one thought in mind. “They told me, ‘We just want a beautiful home,’” Coleman says, “‘very traditional with no modern edge.’” Some of the impetus came from the house itself, located on a street that includes beautifully maintained homes from the same period as this Georgian, and some teardowns....
1 cup all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon cornmeal 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese ¼ teaspoon salt ⅓ cup shrotening 3 tablespoon cold water
Follow this presentation of some of second-generation tree peony expert Lee Gratwick’s favorite varieties.
2 cup firmly packed fresh basil leaves (about 2-1/2 ounces) 2 tablespoon grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 2 tablespoon olive oil 6 cloves garlic, halved
Master 2-Ingredient Dough Recipe This is a 1:1 ratio recipe, so this can easily multiply to make as many portions you desire. Ingredients 1 cup self-rising flour (Or make your own self-rising flour blend by mixing 1 cup all-purpose or gluten-free flour plus 1½ tsp. baking powder and ½ tsp. salt.) 1 cup Greek yogurt (It can be full-fat or nonfat, but you want a brand that produces a thick, strained yogurt so you don’t have a soggy dough....
Tips Nonstick spray coating (1-second spray), less than 1g fat, 7 calories Tips Butter/margarine (1 teaspoon), 4g fat, 35 calories Tips Oil (1 teaspoon), 5 g fat, 41 calories
“In an 1883 issue of The Magazine of American History, the editors wrote that it was in Virginia manor houses where the ‘great Christmas beverage, eggnog’ was invented—replacing wassail. They reported that it was served in a ‘huge silver vessel’ and ‘was one of the distinctive features of the season, as remains, and deserves all the praise that has been accorded to it as a beverage,’” Forrest says. While that late-1800s mention was likely among the first recorded instances of eggnog appearing on holiday menus, it probably wasn’t the first time eggnog recipes were made....
