Jump to Recipe How To Make Shortbread Cookies: an ultimate guide with tips, tricks, recipes, and more for making the very best shortbread cookies! With this guide, your shortbread cookies will have a rich buttery flavor and a perfectly crumbly texture. Whether you frost them or not is up to you! How To Make The Best Shortbread Cookies The key to classic chocolate chip cookies and vintage sugar cookies is a soft and chewy texture....
Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.When I first got heavily into the miles and points hobby several years ago, many rewards credit cards had offers that awarded a bucket of miles, points, or free hotel nights after you used the card just one time. You could simply buy a cup of coffee on the card and tens of thousands of miles and points would fall out of the sky and into your account…a billing cycle or so later....
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Jump to Recipe This flavorful Mango Chicken Marinade combines fresh mango, honey, lime, sriracha, and a touch of garlic for a wonderfully tasty baked or grilled chicken dinner! Just combine the ingredients together in a blender and you have an awesome marinade ready in just minutes! Delicious mango chicken is easy to make with this flavorful mango-lime-sriracha marinade! Mango Chicken Marinade Recipe If you have mango fans in the house, you’re sure to all love this easy marinade!...
American Airlines’ Flagship First is one of the most premium ways to fly from coast to coast.In fact, the airline is the only one of the “big three” U.S. carriers — American, Delta and United — to offer a true first-class cabin on its transcontinental flights, as opposed to just business class. (However, the Airbus A321s which American operates on these routes also have a distinct and separate business-class cabin, in addition to economy....
Here’s a list of the most popular sneaker styles that came out in the eighties. 01 of 15 Nike Air Force One Transcending foot coverage since 1982, this once hoops shoe was named after Air Force One, the aircraft that carries the U.S. President. It was the first basketball shoe to house Nike Air, revolutionizing the game for players like Moses Malone and Charles Barkley while rapidly gaining traction around the world, from the hardwood to the blacktop to the core of hip-hop culture....
Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.This is an installment in the My 2012 Points Strategy Series. Posts include: Taking Credit Card Inventory, Future Credit Card Applications, Airline Elite Status, Hotel Elite Status.As I wrote about yesterday, I’m probably going to close/downgrade a couple credit cards in anticipation for several rounds of applications this year. Last year I wasn’t very disciplined with my applications–I would apply for limited time offers and try to do one or two other applications that day....
With palm trees, sand and clear blue waters, Costa Rica is a perfect tropical retreat at any time of the year, so book your flights to a slice of paradise for less than $400.These bargain fares are for flights to the Costa Rican cities of San Jose and Liberia. They apply to trips taking place from November through December, along with some additional availability from January through September 2023.Multiple airlines are offering these reduced fares, so make sure to get your tickets within the next couple of days....
Jump to Recipe You may have never heard of stewed rhubarb, but better late than never because this is one sweet sauce that you have to try! It makes the perfect addition to your favorite baked breakfast goods, an easy topping for desserts, a filling for sweet treats- and so much more! Whip up a batch of this easy stewed rhubarb and you’ll want to put it on everything! Easy Sweet Rhubarb Sauce Stewed rhubarb is essentially a rhubarb compote or chunky sweet rhubarb sauce....
This post has been updated with new information from Hyatt. It was originally published on Dec. 8, 2022.Earlier this week, reports surfaced that Hyatt’s Andaz brand was making changes to one of its most beloved perks: its complimentary minibars stocked with nonalcoholic beverages and local snacks.A guest at Andaz Scottsdale Resort & Bungalows was the first to notice the change and shared in a post on FlyerTalk (first reported by View From the Wing), that the only complimentary item offered in the room was bottled water — a departure from the local snacks, sodas and other goodies usually offered for free....
Jump to Recipe Delicious homemade stove-top or crockpot chili is what’s for dinner with this easy to make, from scratch, Homemade Chili Seasoning Mix! Perfectly suited for beef, turkey, and chicken chili as well as any variety of beans you would like to use in a vegan version of bean chili! This quick and easy homemade chili seasoning mix is perfect for beef, chicken, turkey, or bean chili! Jump to:🥘 Ingredients 💭 Angela’s Tips & Recipe Notes 🧂 Other Seasoning Mixes 📋 Recipe 💬 Comments...
In the winter, many people travel to warm places to escape the cold while others hop on a plane to hit the slopes of a new mountain on a ski trip. How about checking off a bucket list item like catching a glimpse of the northern lights? Winter is the perfect time for this adventure because the nights are longer and the skies are darker.Norway is a great place to see the aurora borealis and there are currently some great deals to Oslo, which has seen some very low fares this past year, with cheap flights between the U....
Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.The trend with hotel credit cards lately has been to increase the sign-up bonuses to about 2 free nights in a top tier property, like with the new Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve Card and Chase Hyatt Credit Card. I’ve gotten in on these cards and several others, so with so many free nights to use I wanted to start planning to use them at some of the hottest, newest hotels out there....
Malta is set to reopen to most U.S. travelers on June 17, following the addition of 38 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico to the country’s “amber” list.“Malta looks forward to welcoming back Americans, one of our strongest inbound markets,” Johann Buttigieg, chief executive officer of the Malta Tourism Authority, said in a statement issued by the country’s superintendent of public health on Wednesday.Get the latest travel news by signing up for TPG’s free daily newsletter....
Christmas break is turning into a bumpy travel period for U.S. airline customers.U.S. airlines canceled more than 500 total flights on Friday, Christmas Eve, as operational issues appeared to be building right ahead of the Christmas holiday.The recent wave of COVID-19 infections sparked by the omicron variant appeared to be driving many of the disruptions, with United’s flight-status page going so far as to attribute some cancellations to “an increase in Covid cases limiting crew availability....
American Express has launched another Delta Air Lines targeted Amex Offer.This offer lets targeted cardholders get 6,000 American Express Membership Rewards points after purchasing a $300 or higher Delta gift card. This offer was first reported by Miles to Memories.For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter.At TPG, we see this offer on cards like The Platinum Card® from American Express and American Express® Gold Card....
The new iPhone 14 family ushers in perhaps the biggest change yet for travelers.And no, I’m not necessarily talking about the upgraded cameras or the better performance, though I’ll touch on those improvements later. Instead, there’s one subtle change that’ll have lasting implications for people who are always on the go: the elimination of the physical SIM card slot.ZACH GRIFF/THE POINTS GUYIf you’re unfamiliar, a SIM (which stands for subscriber identity module) card is a small chip that essentially associates your phone number with your cellular provider’s network....
Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Since entering the world of the mostly-retired and accumulating miles and points, largely through using rewards credit cards, my parents have increased the number of trips they take per year pretty significantly. I don’t keep count of their adventures, but if I had to guess, I would say they travel at least once a quarter, with one or two trips a year being of the week-long variety....
At the beginning of this year, Amtrak opened its brand-new Moynihan Train Hall in New York City, complete with an absolutely spectacular Metropolitan Lounge.(Photo by Zach Honig/The Points Guy)I visited shortly after the lounge opened, and I was gasping (under my mask) at every turn — Amtrak’s previous Penn Station lounge was a borderline disaster; I never expected to want to arrive any earlier than absolutely necessary to catch my train....
Want to see whale sharks, Bengal tigers, lemurs, gorillas and the Big Five on a single three-week trip?You could visit a few zoos, or you could see them all (as well as many more of the world’s most exotic animals) in their natural habitats on a whirlwind, around-the-world journey with famed luxury tour outfitter Abercrombie & Kent.Prefer taking in the world’s cultural treasures or visiting multiple off-the-beaten-path destinations during a single trip?...
