Holiday Wreath Centerpiece has a Mustard Butter Dip and Hot Mary soup. Judith Dunbar Hines shows how having food on hand is great for when the relatives come and stay during the holiday season. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Holiday Wreath Centerpiece has a Mustard Butter Dip and Hot Mary soup. Judith Dunbar Hines shows how having food on hand is great for when the relatives come and stay during the holiday season. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Holiday Wreath Centerpiece has a Mustard Butter Dip and Hot Mary soup. Judith Dunbar Hines shows how having food on hand is great for when the relatives come and stay during the holiday season. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Holiday Wreath Centerpiece has a Mustard Butter Dip and Hot Mary soup. Judith Dunbar Hines shows how having food on hand is great for when the relatives come and stay during the holiday season. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Judith Dunbar Hines mixes bacon, spinach and tomato into the cooked pasta and eggs and cheese mixture, which fully cooks it. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Judith Dunbar Hines mixes cooked pasta into the eggs and cheese mixture, which fully cooks it. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Judith Dunbar Hines mixes cooked pasta into the eggs and cheese mixture, which fully cooks it. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Close-up of Judith Dunbar Hines' Pasta Carbonara Plus. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Judith Dunbar Hines mixes bacon, spinach and tomato into the cooked pasta and eggs and cheese mixture, which fully cooks it. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Holiday Wreath Centerpiece has a Mustard Butter Dip and Hot Mary soup. Judith Dunbar Hines shows how having food on hand is great for when the relatives come and stay during the holiday season. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Holiday Wreath Centerpiece has a Mustard Butter Dip and Hot Mary soup. Judith Dunbar Hines shows how having food on hand is great for when the relatives come and stay during the holiday season. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Holiday Wreath Centerpiece has a Mustard Butter Dip and Hot Mary soup. Judith Dunbar Hines shows how having food on hand is great for when the relatives come and stay during the holiday season. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Judith Dunbar Hines spoons some fruit compote as she shows how having food on hand is great for when the relatives come and stay during the holiday season. | Al Podgorski~Sun-Times Media
Judith Dunbar Hines has a bin of frozen items that she has in her freezer. These are handy when guests arrive for the holidays and you need to cook up something quick but tasty. | Al Podgorski~Sun-Times Media
Judith Dunbar Hines' tray of holiday go-tos, which includes pasta carbonara. | Al Podgorski~Sun-Times Media
Hot Mary soup should be served warm in mugs with cinnamon sticks. Guests can add vodka if they wish. | Al Podgorski~Sun-Times Media
Amid the flurry that is December, with shopping, decorating, parties and last-minute house guests, the practical day-to-day menu gets little attention. It’s easy to order-in when hunger takes over, but how much pizza and Thai take-out can your family really eat over the next 10 …
