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If you run across the term “mixed peel” in your recipe, try not to panic. Yes, it's commonly used in Europe, but hard to find stateside. But there are ways to obtain, make your own or even substitute mixed peel.

Jam-filled cookies are often the stars of holiday cookie platters, but they're too pretty to be relegated to once a year baking. Most start with a chilled shortbread dough that is filled with raspberry, cherry or apricot preserves, although any type of preserve will work.

Cupcakes aren’t just for children’s birthday parties anymore -- they’re becoming a staple for weddings too. Even though they take less time than wedding cakes, they’re tedious. After all, you’re not just decorating one, solid wedding cake -- you’re now decorating dozens, if not hundreds, of cupcakes for a single event.

Tie-dye isn't just a relic of the hippie days. Today's tie-dyed clothes are bright and vibrant, and you can keep them that way by washing and drying correctly. The key to bright, fade-resistant tie-dye is using the right dye in the first place.

Dressing up a child as Orville Wright for a Halloween party or cosplay is a fun way to learn about American aviation history and the first airplane flight. While the Wright brothers dressed in suits, later aviators wore goggles and aviator caps.

Forget heavy Italian pasta dishes. Chicken piccata is a light, quick dish, elegant enough for entertaining, but simple enough for a weeknight meal. Imbued with lemon juice, garlic and capers, chicken piccata has a fresh flavor. You can cook it ahead of time, but you probably don't need to.

Sugar cream pie is so beloved in certain areas of the U.S. that an Indianan state representative attempted to designate it the state's official pie. Generally created from sugar, cream, butter, vanilla and cornstarch, the pie resembles a thick custard in a pie shell.

It's inevitable that meat shrinks when you cook it, but just how much it shrinks depends on a number of factors. If you're trying to figure out exactly how much raw beef you need for a dinner party or have another reason to be concerned with your final yield, it's safer to overestimate.

A smoker lights a cigarette, smokes it down and tosses away the stub. It’s a habit, an automatic sequence, and the smoker may think anything as small as a cigarette end surely cannot make much difference. Cigarette stubs, however, soon mount up: 4.

Pittosporums (Pittosporum spp.), hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 7 through 10, are evergreen shrubs used as accent shrubs, hedges, or for greenery in floral arrangements. They can reach 8 to 12 feet in height and 4 to 8 feet wide.