Cookbooks Entertaining Holidays

Cookbooks Entertaining Holidays

Rose's Celebrations by Beranbaum, Rose Levy

Rose Beranbaum, of award-winning Cake Bible fame, offers innovative menus plus family favorites and all-new cake recipes.

Betty Crocker Celebrate! by Betty Crocker Editors

Festive recipes and ideas to make holidays special throughout the year. No matter what month the calendar is on, theres always something to celebrate. Now Betty Crocker Celebrate! makes it easy to whip up party food and family fun all year long

Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Holiday Cookbook by Boxcar, Ruby Ann

Trailer park folks celebrate like no one else, and in this follow-up to Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Cookbook, Ruby Ann details the very special qualities of their holidays, why and how they are celebrated, and provides plenty of mouth-watering recipes (every one of which has been personally tested and tasted by Ruby Ann herself in the kitchen of her double-wide). No matter what their social standin', readers will be able to celebrate the joy of Spam, government cheese, and of course the birth of the King, Elvis Presley, with delectable dishes like Love me Tender Peanut Butter Banana Fried Ice Cream and All Shook Up Fried Chicken. These are the dishes that have been known to make grown men turn off televised wrestling, make large women in double-knit polyester slacks dance all night, and make fussy kids ask for fourths.

Holiday Eggs by Brennan, Georgeanne

The holidays of spring--Easter, Passover, Mother's Day, and even bridal and baby showers--are times to celebrate new beginnings with family and friends. In Holiday Eggs, food and garden writer Georgeanne Brennan combines her areas of expertise to create a breathtaking collection of recipes and decorating ideas honoring the humble egg, symbol of birth and rebirth. More than 30 sweet and savory recipes take a starring role in traditional holiday feasts and impromptu springtime gatherings. Simple egg-dyeing and Easter-basket projects for kids as well as more sophisticated decorations like dyed Ukrainian eggs, eggshell candles, egg napkin rings, and a live flowering Easter basket centerpiece guarantee that your holiday table will look as beautiful as the food you serve. Featuring the photography of Richard Jung, award-winning photographer of Hot Sour Salty Sweet and regular contributor to Travel & Leisure, Metropolitan Home, Sunset, and Gourmet magazines. Includes updated dessert classics such as Raspberry Sabayon and Individual Orange SoufflÃ©s served in hollowed oranges. Georgeanne Brennan, winner of both Julia Child and James Beard cookbook awards, has written over a dozen books on cooking and gardening. A writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and regular contributor to numerous other publications, she divides her time between her Northern California farm and her home in the Provence region of France.

African American Celebrations and Holiday Traditions by Broussard, Antoinette

These beautifully illustrated pages cover the entire year. You'll find suggestions for bountiful Thanksgiving dinners, Kwanzaa feasts, extravagant year-end holiday parties, Ramadan breakfasts, Carnival bashes, Easter meals, and homey birthday parties. And there are plenty of home-decorating tips to help liven up your everyday surroundings to match the occasion. In African-American Holiday Traditions, lifestyle authority Antoinette Broussard brings together her personal style for presenting food, home decor, and entertaining panache with the personal recollections of famous African-American women and men. More than fifty distinguished actresses, writers, public servants, entrepreneurs, and artists contribute memories of family holiday traditions and some of their best holiday recipes. Restaurant owner Norma Jean Darden, former president of The Links, Inc., Patricia Russell-McCloud, actresses Vivica Fox and Irma P. Hall, and song stylist Nancy Wilson relate their favorite holiday stories, and there are recipes and recollections from Alma Arrington Brown, psychologist Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant, Kwanzaa stamp designer Synthia Saint James, Joyce Dinkins, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, Myrlie Evers-Williams, among the many others represented. Here you'll find the past linked to the present, fond memories that will touch you and remind you of how far we have come and how much can be accomplished when we celebrate our lives together.

African-American Holiday Traditions by Broussard, Antoinette

In this book, the author brings together her personal style for presenting food, decorating tips, and entertaining panache with the personal recollections of famous African-American women. She interviewed over fifty women about their family traditions, holiday memories and favorite recipes.

Handmade Christmas Decorating by Country Living, Editors of

This book contains 30 projects to thwart that unjolly trend. Step-by-step instructions and photographs lead through delightful activities ranging from making sugared apples to sewing patchwork teddy bears to building snowmen to setting up card displays.

Celebrations by Famularo, Joe

Deluxe collection of 33 menus with 100's of recipes for festive occasions throughout the year. Offers lots of great entertainment ideas, too.

Jewish Holiday Feasts by Ferrary, Jean

39 easy, delectable dishes combine traditional tastes with fresh, healthy, seasonal ingredients. Lovely, warm color illus. 72 pgs. Hard

Herbs for the Holidays by Gilbertie, Sal

Decorate your home for the holidays! More than 30 step-by-step projects give a warm and festive feeling to your home during the holidays. Make fragrant herbs into wreaths, centerpieces, tree decorations, garlands and more.

Festive Occasions Cookbook by Goldstein, Joyce

Now you can give memorable parties more easily than you ever imagined: an open-air harvest, a romantic dinner for two, a Mediterranean Easter, a heritage Christmas dinner, and more.

Gourmets Holidays & Celebratio by Gourmet Mag

GOURMET MAG

Special Occasions by Hadamuscin, John

Over 200 recipes with 28 menus celebrating down-home cooking in both traditional and inventive ways for special occasions all year long.

Quick and Easy Holiday Treats with Style by Hand, Edie; Real, Darlene; Lustrea, Debra

A collection of cookbooks offering style and taste on a budget. These innovative cookbooks are devoted to celebrating wonderful food and a contemporary sense of style on a budget. Provided are recipes for delicious and easy holiday treats, entrees, and salads and breads that take fewer than 20 minutes to prepare and present with flair. Appropriate for both novice and experienced cooks, all of these recipes use ingredients commonly found on supermarket shelves. Each recipe is accompanied by nutritional information and diabetic food exchanges. The fun presentation ideas suggested use basic supplies found in supermarkets and mass merchandise stores, enabling cooks to create meal presentations worthy of Martha Stewart on a family budget.

Tricks & Treats by Harding, Deborah

From traditional trick or treating, school events and community parades for kids, to masquerade parties for adults, Halloween has become a highlight of the fall season for every generation. Tricks and Treats is brimming with great ideas for costumes, pumpkin carving, decorations, parties and tempting foods: Set the scene with Hanging Ghosts, Creepy Crawlies and Black Cat Decorations. Carve grimacing jack-o-lanterns and turn garden squash into catty windowsill delights. Fun-to-wear costumes for kids like Siegfried the Sorcerer and the Fairy Princess. Plus scary, but safe, special effects makeup for faces and hairdos. Fun food for all ages like Mini-Pumpkin sandwiches and Ghost cookies. Throw a frightfully good party with festive place mats and centerpiece ghosts, handmade trick-or-treat bags and inexpensive toys. Step-by-step instructions are provided for every project, along with a separate chapter on crafting basics: there's information on transferring patterns, simple sewing, machine applique and embroidery, working with Styrofoam and using a glue gun.

Halloween Parties : How to Throw Spook-tacular Soirees by Hellander, Lori

A boring Halloween party? The horror! Millions of Americans live to be scared silly, and for them October 31 marks the beginning of the holiday season: a reason to dress and act outrageously. This hip, photograph-filled paperback, packed with recipes and crafts, makes entertaining on Allhallows' Eve terrifyingly easy. From a frightful dinner for four to a full-out, monster-mashing Haunted Mansion, Lori Hellander concocts six parties guaranteed to make guests scream in delight. The Hocus Pocus Potion Party highlights eerie elegance, while Tricks and Treats taps into Halloween nostalgia. Like a skilled carver attacking a pumpkin, Hellander chops up each themed party into manageable chunks: invitations; shopping and scheduling; decor and costumes; food and drink; games for all ages. But aspiring fete-ishists need not have tons of time or an armory of glue guns to get the parties going: there are plenty of quick and simple-to-execute ideas, plus useful tips for impromptu entertaining.

Holidays Cookbook by Hoffman, Virginia

Menus, recipes, and wine selections for holiday entertaining.

Holiday Hearts by Johns, Pamela Sheldon and Barry, Jennifer

Occasions abound on which we show our love for family and friends--Valentine's Day, of course, but also anniversaries, birthdays, Mother's Day, and Father's Day, all days meant for pampering. What better way to please the object of your affection than with the classic symbol of love, a heart? This volume teems with food and craft ideas all devoted to the heart. Hearts can be savory--Parmesan Braided Hearts. They can definitely be sweet--Pink Coconut Hearts with Rose Blossoms. They can be decorative--Rose Heart Candle Wreathes. They can even be practical--Lavender Heart sachets. This year, honor that someone special with a unique, homemade treasure.

100 Graces by Kelly

KELLY

Halloween Treats by Maggipinto, Donata

These days, Halloween is the most popular holiday next to Christmas. At its heart are family and friends having fun together--which is what this book is all about. In this cornucopia of creative Halloween ideas, simple crafts, tasty treats, and ghoulish good times abound. From delicious one cauldron dinners such as creamy pumpkin soup to luscious devil's food cake and black cat cookies, here are recipes ideal for entertaining adults and children alike, both in the kitchen and at the table. And then there are the crafts. Kid-friendly projects such as trick-or-treat bags, spooky lanterns, and tissue ghosts, and easy ideas for beautiful centerpieces, place mats, and name cards keep everyone from the tots on up busy and happy. Filled with clever projects and delicious snacks, and illustrated throughout with colorful photographs, Halloween Treats will keep the whole family (and friends of all ages) entertained. Happy Halloween! Donatela Maggipinto is the entertaining director at Williams-Sonoma and a regular on NBC's Today Show. She recently completed a series of cooking programs for the Television Food Network. She lives in Marin County, California. Richard Jung is a San Francisco-based food and travel photographer whose previous books include Balsamico.

Frugal Luxuries by the by McBride, Tracey

Inspired by the bounty and special gifts each new season brings, McBride shares easy yet meaningful ways to grace the home, celebrate everyday miracles and enrich seasonal festivitiesâ€”at little to low cost for every income level. This gracious guide illuminates the golden threads of luxury, pleasure, beauty and wisdom that are revealed through the change of the seasons. McBride offers all new ways to elegantly embellish your holidays without exhausting your energy or budget. She explains how to decorate your home in an artful yet inexpensive manner, includes recipes for bountiful feasts for every occasion (plus what to do with the leftovers) and suggests how to tackle seasonal chores. And her advice on stocking a Gift Pantry all year long means gifts are always at hand. Through heartwarming anecdotes and personal observations, this book reminds readers how easy it is to fill a home with flowers and the heart with laughter. Celebrate holidays with wonderâ€”and learn to appreciate the frugal luxuries offered in each season.

Holiday Feasts by Pappas, Lou Seibert

These menus offer a bountiful array of both traditional and contemporary approaches to Thanksgiving and Christmas cooking. Perfect for first-time hosts as well as for experienced cooks who want to add to their repertoire.

Thanksgiving Book (Penner) by Penner, Lucille

Brimming with beautiful prints and woodcuts, this is an exhaustively researched and delightfully written collection of history, facts, and folklore. Recipes range from traditional favorites to unusual, easy-to-make dishes like Popcorn Cake Mennonite and West African Yam Soup.

Valentine Treats by Perry, Sara

Nothing says I love you like gifts made from the heart and anyone struck with Cupid's arrow will find plenty of inspiration in this book. So say it like you mean it with nostalgic Antique Valentines and a Sweetheart Candy Box. If that's not enough to sway the fickle, then let me hear the sweet Pitter Patter of your Pancakes and dive into your Chocolate Cookie Truffles. Even the littlest cherubs will join in the fun with simple nosegays, no fuss Peanut Butter with Love Sandwiches and Pixi Postcards. Cupid's arrow will hit the bulls eye this holiday with the enchanting ideas in Valentine Treats.

Celebrations: So Fat, Low Fat, No Fat by Rohde, Betty

Betty Rohde has changed mealtime on tables across the country. From her versions of American favorites to her easy-to-cook variations on Mexican and Italian dishes, to a collection of mouthwatering desserts, she has proved that low-fat eating can be high in taste and appeal. Now she brings her celebrated so fat, low fat, no fat perspective to special treats for holidays and other gala occasions. In her newest collection, Rohde provides ideas for Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts; summertime picnics; dinner parties when only the best will do; and get-together s in honor of birthdays, anniversaries, and other significant events. She also offers suggestions and advice on all the elements that contribute to feelings of good cheer and shares stories and tidbits of wisdom that reflect her appreciation of the good things in life.

Al Roker's Hassle Free Holiday Cookbook by Roker, Al

Holidays are a time to relish the company of family and friends, not to spend hours sweating alone in the kitchen. Al Roker's Hassle Free Cookbook is the ultimate guide to keeping holidays and gatherings stress-free, simple, and fun, while still creating delicious food that the whole family will love. Here are traditional American favorites for every occasion, from no-cook appetizers to simple side dishes to manageable main courses, and of course, plenty of grilling and outdoor food. All the classics are here--Thanksgiving turkey with gravy, stuffing, and all the trimmings; splendid Christmas entrees like Stuffed Pork Crown Roast, and scrumptious and quick gift breads and cookies; satisfying Super Bowl Sunday chilis, sandwiches, and snacks; a romantic Valentine's Day menu of Filet Mignon with Pan Jus followed by Eggless Dark Chocolate Mousse with Raspberries. and Halloween treats for kids and adults alike. Enjoy a Fourth of July picnic ov Oven-Fried Chicken with a Pecan-Cornmeal Crust accompanied by appetizing salads, or try a St. Patrick's Day menu of Irish Stew, Soda Bread, and Whiskey Bread Pudding. Al provides notes on each recipe, along with a wealth of tips and hints on topics like how to stock a holiday pantry, creative ideas for leftovers, cooking with kids, and everything you'll need to make each holiday easy, enjoyable, and flavorful.

Fast & Festive Meals For The Jewish Holidays by Sorosky, Marl

Marlene Sorosky offers COMPLETE menus, rituals & party-planning ideas for every holiday. Nearly 150 recipes. Color photos. 223 pgs. Hard (List 27.00)

Season's Greetings by Sorosky, Marl

Revised! Sorosky. Wonderful traditional menus for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's & great ideas for centerpieces, decorations & delicious gifts. New color photos. 132 pgs. Paper ET-959P List 19.95 Intro Price 15.96

M Stewart Holidays by Stewart, Mart

STEWART

How to Make Holiday Roasts and Birds by The Editors of Cook's Illustrated

One of a unique collection of seventeen beautifully hardbound, single-topic cookbooks from the publisher of Cook's Illustrated, the magazine with a reputation for fanatical kitchen testing of recipes, ingredients, equipment and culinary techniques. In each slim volume, months of testing are pared down into simple advice on which methods work best to cook the foods everyone loves most. In this volume: Learn the secrets of preparing perfect holiday roasts; including prime rib, turkey, duck, or goose.

Holiday Favorites by Williams-Sonoma

All of your favorite recipes from the award-winning, forty-three volume Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library can now be found in four new comprehensive collectorâ€™s editions. These collectorâ€™s editions feature gorgeous, full-color images of every recipe as a finished dish, and step-by-step photographs that illuminate more challenging tasks. Written by international cooking authorities, these timeless recipe collections provide everything the home cook needs to prepare delicious, inspiring meals for friends and family.

Light and Easy Holiday Cooking by Woodruff, Sandra, M.S., R.D.

As each major holiday approaches, those watching waistlines view the coming celebration with dread as another occasion to blow their diets, But delicious traditional meals need not ruin healthy habits. Now anyone can create flavorful holiday meals that perfectly reflect the holiday spirit but are lower in fat, salt, and sugar. Included are recipes for tempting hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and beverages, complete holiday menus for twelve traditional holidays and celebrations, and guilt-free desserts and sweet treats. Each menu is accompanied by plan-ahead strategies to help the reader avoid a last-minute rush.

Great Taste Lowfat Holiday Ckg by

TIME LIFE

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