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Tis the Season to be Baking: Christmas Reflections and Bread Recipes

Dominic Garramone

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Another great book from Fr. Dominic 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Once again Father Dominic has provided insights into how to incorporate spirituality with everyday life. This book teaches how to satisfy both physical and spiritual hungers simultaneously.

Good Stuff 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I find Fr. Dom is really great at bread recipes. Enjoy baking and his reflections are always worthwhile.

Editorial Review:

Father Dominic Garramone, acclaimed author and host of Breaking Bread with Father Dominic, weaves together holiday reflections and recipes in 'Tis the Season to be Baking. In this new collection, Father Dominic relates nearly two-dozen holiday baking traditions to scripture and shows that holiday preparations can seem less like drudgery if we can see the purpose behind them. Did you know that the French meal fougasse represents the genealogy of Jesus or that two very different Christmas breads the traditional German stollen and the more recent Saint Bede tradition of "Bambino Bread" represent the Christ Child in swaddling clothes? 'Tis the Season to be Baking imparts such wisdom as it takes bakers, holiday traditionalists, and Father Dominic fans beyond bread yet again.

Gooseberry Patch Celebrate the Seasons

Leisure Arts

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Not as creative as the Christmas series 3 out of 5 stars.
19 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I was very excited about this book when I first heard about it. I love the Christmas series and have several other cookbooks from them and love them dearly! This book just didnt live up to the other books I have though.
Most of the recipes in this book seem to be repetitions of recipes from their other books. There are a few things that are different and new but if you have any of their other books you probably have a recipe for 90% of the items offered.
Also the crafting ideas just arent as inspiring as their Christmas crafts. I have enjoyed decorating my home for the holidays with the help of Gooseberry but this just didnt have the same origionality as the other books.
Maybe they just spread themselves too thin trying to cover one whole year in one book. But I think if you have any of their other books than you can pass on this one.

Editorial Review:

The fine folks at Gooseberry Patch® are back again with a book full of great projects for the whole year. Celebrate the Seasons follows in the successful tradition of the Gooseberry Patch® Christmas books. You'll find craft projects, decorating ideas, and recipes keyed to the major holidays for the entire year, from Easter and the Fourth of July right through to the next winter and Valentine's Day. No matter what the season or celebration, this is the one book that gives Gooseberry Patch® fans ideas and instructions to make them brighter and more memorable.

Scandinavian Holiday Recipes

Michelle Nagle Spencer

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Reflections, Traditions and Recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
20 of 21 people found this review helpful.

Scandinavian Holiday Recipes, in the popular recipe-card file size Stocking Stuffer format, is chock-full of the best recipes and notes about Scandinavian food and culture. Compiled by Michelle Nagle Spencer, this cookbook contains recipes and reflections on the traditions, sites, and events associated with the holidays observed by Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Americans. Included are wonderful recipes as well as information on Scandinavian culture. Featured sections include "Scandinavian Holidays," such as Lent, Easter and St. Urho's Day and "Sites Worth Seeing and Visiting." Information on Ethnic History and Scandinavian Festivals Across America are also included. Illustrations throughout the book and on the cover are by Diana Heusinkveld. The cover depicts a colorful border design which frames the calligraphic title.

Scandinavian Holiday Recipes contains menus for all the various holidays. Plan a St. Lucia's Day Breakfast of Egg Coffee, Glögg, St. Lucia's Saffron Bread, Cardamom Horns and Almond Tarts! For Midsummer's Day Lunch serve up Beer Punch, Cold Buttermilk Soup, Carrot Salad, Hamburger a' la Lindström, Herring Salad, Hardtack, White Potato Bread and Cloudberries with Whipped Cream for dessert! Also included are a recipe for a Norwegian Wedding Cake and beverage recipes for Scandinavian beers!

Scandinavian Holiday Recipes is excellent for personal collections and as a gift for those interested in Scandinavian cooking and culture.

Editorial Review:

Scandinavians and Finns celebrate the holidays in style. This spiral-bound index-card size book is your quick and easy guide to Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Finnish traditional recipes.

Book of Feasts & Seasons

Joanna Bogle

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Catholic culture with an English slant 4 out of 5 stars.
17 of 17 people found this review helpful.

This is a great addition to your cookbook library if, like me, you are greedy for ideas on integrating the Catholic liturgical year into your family life and traditions. It will be of particular interest to those with British heritage, as it explains many customs and provides recipes peculiar to Irish, Scottish, Welsh, but especially English traditions.

Editorial Review:

When it was first published in 1986 A Book of Feasts and Seasons was the first popular attempt to recapture the lost traditions surrounding our major feasts and festivals. Since then it has gone through many printings, and has become a well loved source book all over the world. For every occasion of the Christian Year - from the traditional celebration of Michaelmas and Martinmas to making an Advent Wreath, from wassailing to the full story of St Wenceslaus - A Book of Feasts and Seasons remains an essential part of the family library. In today's fast moving world it gets harder and harder for people to keep in touch with their Christian history and customs. This book allows families, schools and church groups to do just that, and to have fun while doing it. Joanna Bogle is a well-known Catholic journalist and broadcaster. She often appears on the television station EWTN.

Pillsbury Holiday Baking: Treats filled with cheer for a magical time of year

Pillsbury Editors

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Editorial Review:

Perk Up Your Holidays with These Great Recipes!

October through December is the time to break out the mixing bowls, baking sheets and oven mitts and start whipping up festive treats and desserts. From playful Halloween "critters" and themed cookies for the Kwanzaa party to special Christmas breads and luscious New Year's treats, Pillsbury makes it easier than ever to create delicious baked goods and liven up celebrations with your family and friends.

Organized by holiday, Pillsbury Holiday Baking features 150 tasty recipes for both sweet and savory baked goods, including lots of "Extra Easy" recipes that take 30 minutes or less. Illustrated with 50 inspiring color photos and sprinkled with helpful kitchen tips and gift ideas, it delivers all you need to bake up a season's worth of crowd-pleasing holiday treats.

Open the book and find:

16 Halloween recipes, including a Frankenstein Cake and Bugs in a Blanket

29 Thanksgiving recipes, including Mystery Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Cheesecake and Cornmeal Sage Scones

43 Christmas recipes, including Christmas Ornament Cookies,a Tree-Shaped Brownie Torte and a Spinach Dip Crescent Wreath

22 Hanukkah recipes, including Hanukkah Rugelach andCherry-Almond Torte

20 Kwanzaa recipes, including Black Forest Tart andFresh Pear-Date Bread

20 New Year's recipes, including Rich and Easy Tiramisu Dessertand Crescent-Crab Purses

Magic of Christmas: Melt-In-Your-Mouth Recipes, Memories of Winter Fun & Handmade Gifts That Bring Holiday Cheer! (Gooseberry Patch)

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Editorial Review:

The magic of Christmas is all around! We've included yummy treats like sweet & sticky s'more bars, Grandma's peanut butter fudge and baked apple donuts. You'll also find savory dishes like warm red-skinned potato salad, cheddar-basil biscuits and honey-glazed turkey breast...tried & true favorites. Our Magic of Christmas Cookbook includes easy ideas for making magical ice ornaments, a red mitten valance, a gingerbread wreath and much more.

The Christmas Candy Book

Lou Seibert

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

For candy lovers everywhere... 4 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.

This book is not only gorgeous, the recipes are easy and taste out of this world. I made turtles first thing, and was astonished at how easy it was. Course, then I had to eat the 48 turtles I just made, which wasn't too difficult! The instructions are simple to follow, and the results are spectacular. I recommend it to anyone who loves candy or loves making special gifts. Top notch!!

Editorial Review:

Confection perfection is easy to achieve with the step-by-step help of dessert expert Lou Seibert Pappas. Why should Santa settle for another cookie, when he could nibble on Chocolate Mallo Fudge or Orange Liqueur Chocolate Truffles? Decked with Frankie Frankeny’s winsome photography and more than 40 recipes, The Christmas Candy Book is the stuff holiday dreams are made of. It includes Yuletide classics like buttery English Toffee and nutty Panforte di Siena as well as inventive dainties like Honey-Lavender Drops and adorable Marzipan Piglets. Stylish tips for serving, wrapping, and storing candies will inspire colorful tabletops and delightful gifts. Bursting with holiday cheer, The Christmas Candy Book is a sweet success from cover to cover.

Cook's Illustrated 2001 Annual (Cooks Illustrated Annuals)

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Want to be a better cook? 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful.

Cook's Illustrated is a no-nonsense, incredibly detailed, well-written, well-researched, and fussy-about-quality-food magazine written for American home cooks and foodies, not gourmet cooks (although the food you'll end up cooking might qualify as gourmet) or food faddists. The annuals include all of the magazines for that year bound into hardcovers and handily indexed. Quick Tips showcase reader tips for everything under the sun and in the kitchen. Recipes may include everything from making a better pot roast to Indian food. Equipment reviews rank essential (and some not so essential) kitchen tools.

Each recipe features a description of the process the author went through to get the master recipe, usually including any interesting food science tidbits along the way (for instance, how heat, in the instance of cooked food, may affect the protein molecules, etc.), which makes for some fascinating reading; it's not unheard of for me to read that part of the recipe out loud to admiring dinner guests at their request.

"My" chicken and dumplings have been pronounced "the best ever", "my" pork roasts have been called "to die for", and "my" roast turkey is looked forward to by anyone who has ever come to my table during the holidays.

I have collected each annual, eagerly looking forward to each one even if I've received the magazine on subscription, and each one makes me a better cook -- if you want to become known as a fabulous home cook, these annuals will put you ahead of the pack!

The Hadassah Jewish Holiday Cookbook: Traditional Recipes from Contemporary Kosher Kitchens

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Editorial Review:

Whether it’s a holiday, or Shabbat dinner, “What’s on the menu?” is on everybody’s mind. Ranging from the classic Ashkenazic Chicken Fricassee to the definitive Sephardic Chicken Marrakesh, The Hadassah Jewish Holiday Cookbook includes the best of the best traditional recipes from the celebrated cooks of Hadassah, the Jewish women’s volunteer organization. In a culinary celebration of tradition, history, dedication, and faith, the more than 250 holiday recipes from great cooks in America and Israel present traditional favorites as well as modern twists on classic dishes. Readers will find nostalgic must-haves—from chicken soup to borscht and kreplach to kishka—along with favorite dishes updated for modern palates. This feast for the eyes and tastebuds is accompanied by the splendid writing of award-winning Jewish authors who offer their historical insights, sage advice, personal reminiscences, and engaging commentaries. Contributor include Susan R. Friedland, Edda Servi Machlin, Joan Nathan, Steven Raichlen, Claudia Roden, and Rabbi Robert Sternberg. History, passion, and tradition—and love—are the essential ingredients to what may become the definitive guide to Jewish holiday cooking.

The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook: Featuring More Than 1,200 Kitchen-Tested Recipes

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Many years in the making, this comprehensive cookbook delivers more than 1,200 foolproof recipes for classic American family fare in a clear, accessible style. Beautiful step-by-step photos illuminate every conceivable technique from chopping shallots and skinning salmon to cutting up a chicken and tying a roast. In fact, just about anything you want (or need) to do in the kitchen will be explained in these pages in the test kitchen’s approachable, no-nonsense voice. In addition, the recipes will keep you busy (and your friends and family happy) for years to come since we’ve included hundreds of easy weeknight dishes (like Skillet Lasagna and One-Pot Chicken and Rice), company and holiday-worthy dinners (like Beef Burgundy, Roast Leg of Lamb, and Fresh Fruit Trifle), dozens of menus, shopping tips, equipment ratings and more.

A cooking tutorial between two covers, The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook is the one and only basic cookbook you'll need, covering every course, from appetizers to desserts, and including chapters on breakfast, sandwiches, sauces and condiments, and beverages. Friendly test kitchen tips accompany nearly every recipe and point out either where you might go wrong or a special technique or ingredient that makes the recipe successful. Helpful charts (like a primer on steaming vegetables or cooking grains) and Cooking 101 pages (covering topics like brining, cheese, and crudité) make this a reference unlike any other. Bound to get America back into the kitchen again, this is a family cookbook for generations to come.