Just in case you still have, like, eggnog to 'nog or plums to sugar before the second cousins twice removed arrive, consider us Santa's little helpers.

Here are a few instructional holiday posts we love that might have jingled right on by during the holiday hullabaloo.

• Sam Meyer is agog over homemade eggnog, and you can be too

• Peppermint bark 101

• Have yourself a very vintage holiday: Welsh pork cake

• Yule Glögg: holiday tradition in a glass

• How to make ice cream ... with snow!

• Four Loko holiday balls - you're too good of a person to make these

• Brining, smoking, rubbing and spatchcocking your turkey (we swear it's all totally legal)

• The TSA won't swipe your pie - but will they take your cake?

We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Monday. 'Til then, you can find us by the punch bowl.