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Gooseberry Patch Christmas: Book 6 (Gooseberry Patch)

Leisure Arts

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good Recipes....Would be better with fewer Crafts.... 4 out of 5 stars.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I'm a big fan of the Gooseberry Patch Cookbook series. Particularly the large spiral bound versions, but the'Christmas' series produced by Leisure Arts is a little hit or miss for me- Mostly because I prefer recipes instead of crafts, and Christmas has over 80+ pages of crafts and about 40+ pages of recipes.

There are some great recipes in this one. Seafood Lasagne, Eggnog Cookies, and Christmas Tree pull-apart rolls. The presentation is cute, and the stories and ancedotes nice and heart-warming

If there were fewer crafts, and more recipes, I'm sure I'd like this series more. 4 stars, because the crafts dominate the book a little too much.

Editorial Review:

Where do you go for old-fashioned, country-style Christmas fun?To Gooseberry Patch-®, of course! New Country Friends-® art and heartwarming decorating tips, fail-proof craft instructions, and irresistible holiday recipes make this the perfect guide for creating a memorable Christmas. Decorating ideas such as making a story blanket or family memory wreath get everyone involved. Includes easy-to-follow instructions for charming gifts such as handcrafted snow globes, aromatherapy candles, and beaded watchbands. Plus oodles of tasty treats for entertaining at home or giving as gifts. Also includes helpful tips and favorite recipes from devoted Gooseberry Patch-® readers.

Autumn in the Country Cookbook (Gooseberry Patch)

Gooseberry Patch

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Autumn in the Country Gooseberry Patch Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Another great cookbook from Gooseberry Patch. I have many of their cookbooks and love them all.

Very nice 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

This is a grand cook book! Yummy recipes, charming drawings, nicely bound. I'll use this quite a lot!

Editorial Review:

Inspired by harvest hayrides, pumpkin picking and small-town festivals, Gooseberry Patch's cookbook, Autumn in the Country, celebrates the very best fall has to offer. It's filled with more than 250 delicious recipes and over 225 tips and ideas.

The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas

Jeff Smith

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A great Christmas cookbook -- Not just your standard meals 4 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This book takes you through the history and traditions of Christmas, with full meals illustrated. My favorites - The crown roast of pork, with sausage stuffing. Favorite side dishes include brussels sprouts with balsamic vinegar and baked onions. A great read, and a must-have for the holidays.

The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This is the first recipe book I ever sat down and read from cover to cover. It has become one of my Christmas traditions, and one I share with friends and family by giving it as a gift.

Jeff Smith shares a lot of his personal feelings about the significance of Christmas, and his writing is obviously based on historical research. In a charming progression, he takes us through the events of the first Christmas and designates a feast including a special dish for each of the characters involved, from the Christ child Himself, to the angels, to even the beasts.

Editorial Review:

In his latest book, Jeff Smith provides dishes and tradition for every aspect of the holiday season. To celebrate the feast itself, he offers his family recipe for roast goose, then a pot roast and latkes for Hannukah, a roast lamb the shepherds might have eaten, mince pie, gingerbread men, mulled wine, and more. He also devotes a section to the traditions, from mistletoe to stockings to carols. Color photos throughout.

Leslie Mackie's Macrina Bakery and Cafe Cookbook: Favorite Breads, Pastries, Sweets and Savories

Leslie Mackie

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

SIMPLE and DELICIOUS 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I bought the first copy as a gift. I have not purchased a new cookbook for myself in years, as I have dozens and dozens. I did not think there was anything new under the sun for me in the world of cookbooks - WRONG!
I have enjoyed the Macrina bakery since it opened, and Leslie's cookbook faithfully includes all the best of her breads, sweets, and savories.
The recipes are soooooooooo straightforward, simple, yet are unique combinations of everyday ingredients. So, I purchased two more - yep, one for me and one more gift.

Editorial Review:

Macrina’s irresistible creations, from rustic potato bread to pear and cracked pepper bread to crisp, crackly baguettes, have made Seattle a culinary destination for fans of scrumptious baked goods. Author Leslie Mackie, revered by chefs and artisan bakers throughout the country, brings her talent and passion to this beautiful cookbook. The recipes here run the gamut from simple morning muffins to impressive European pastries and show-stopping desserts. Now customers, cookbook buyers, and food lovers everywhere can experience the delicious offerings of Macrina in their own kitchens.

The How to Host a Cookie Exchange Handbook

Robin Olson

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Everything you need to know to get the party started!

The How to Host a Cookie Exchange Handbook is a great organizer "work-book"
for first timers and seasoned Cookie Exchange Hostesses! All the instructions are
written in an easy to use format.

Some highlights:

• The "who, what, when, where and why". Explanations in full detail of how the
  party should flow and the best way to do the actual cookie exchanging.
• Dozens of ideas for decorations, parting gifts, party foods and menu ideas,
  grocery shopping lists, games to play and "Don't Forget!"  lists.
• Baking tips
• Work-book Section: Located in the back of the book. Lined pages to write
  your list of invitees with RSVP area, menu planning, foods to purchase at the store.

Take the Cookie Exchange Handbook shopping with you!
This is a book to use. It should be all "marked up" by the time your party is over.

You'll receive comprehensive instructions, tips and ideas for all subjects relating
to organizing and planning for the party, so that you're not just staring at lined
blank pages, thinking "Now what?" Follow these guidelines and you'll breeze
through the Cookie Exchange party planning process like a pro. The goal is to
enjoy your own party like a guest!

Essentially Lilly: A Guide to Colorful Holidays

Lilly Pulitzer, Jay Mulvaney

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Editorial Review:

Lilly Pulitzer has perfected the art of living well -- through her clothes and also by the way she entertains. Her informal elegance and vibrancy exemplify an attitude of "affluence at ease" -- an attitude she shows us how to incorporate into our daily lives. A Guide to Colorful Holidays follows Lilly as she engages her unique Palm Beach style while celebrating good times -- with yummy-good food shared with family and friends -- on a host of festive holidays or, really, on any day of the year. Divided by seasons, the book spills over with Lilly's favorite memories, distinctive recipes, and creative hints for a year's worth of happy celebration.

SPRING brings a festive Mardi Gras party, an Easter brunch, and a Latin-inspired Mother's Day lunch.

SUMMER calls for a Fourth of July beach picnic, the perfect kid's birthday bash, and the ultimate Labor Day weekend house party.

FALL means Halloween, Thanksgiving, and, as a special treat, a birthday supper for Lilly!

WINTER has festivities on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, plus a romantic Valentine's Day supper dance.

Lilly's is a truly american success story. When she eloped at twenty and moved to Palm Beach, the young Mrs. Pulitzer was noted for the original way she did things -- like having dinner parties in her kitchen, while everyone else entertained formally in their dining rooms.

"What did we care?" Lilly says. "I didn't want to miss out on the fun just because I was cooking." So everyone cha-cha'd into the kitchen and Lilly created a new Palm Beach style that celebrates casual good times, wonderfully prepared food, and laughing with close friends: the recipe for a perfect party.

But as everyone knows, Lilly did more than just have fun. She started a business. Squeezing oranges to make fresh juice in a small shop off tony Worth Avenue caused such a mess that Lilly asked her dressmaker to run up a simple shift in bright colors so that the stains wouldn't show. Her friends liked the shift, asked where they could find it, and voilà! A fashion legend was born.

Now, Lilly wants to share some of her secrets for making holiday entertaining as festive and fun as it can be. Filled with lavish illustrations and lush photographs and featuring an enticing batch of menus, recipes, decorating, and entertaining tips, A Guide to Colorful Holidays is sure to make your festivities sparkle with the color and joie de vivre that Lilly is famous for.

Season's Greetings: Cooking and Entertaining for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's

Marlene Sorosky

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Terrific recipes for holiday and party entertaining. 5 out of 5 stars.
18 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I immediately went out and purchased this book after attending a party in which the hostess presented a beautiful and tasty appetizer buffet using eight different recipes from Season's Greetings. The recipes are all eye appealing, delicious and in most cases easy to make. Recipes also include make-ahead tips. I highly recommend it for the beginner as well as the seasoned hostess.

Editorial Review:

A best-selling classic with well over one hundred thousand copies sold, Season's Greetings is now beautifully redesigned, including new color photographs throughout. Marlene Sorosky has built a tremendous following over the years as more and more people discover they can rely upon her exceptional menus and recipes -- especially for all-important and often nerve-racking Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's celebrations. Season's Greetings offers wonderful traditional menus for the holidays, and even includes great ideas for snacks, centerpieces, decorations, and delicious gifts -- from pickles and mustards to jams, fruitcakes, pies, and liqueurs. Perfect for novice hosts wondering how to feed hordes of hungry relatives, as well as anyone looking forward to a homespun holiday season, this revised and updated edition of Season's Greetings is every cook's source for unbeatable feast, fete, and Yuletide fun.

Elizabeth David's Christmas

Jill Norman, Elizabeth David

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Throughout her pioneering career, food writer Elizabeth David often talked about wanting to compile a Christmas book. She collected recipes, articles, and notes and even went so far as to write an introduction for the book. And now it has become a reality. Beautifully written and illustrated, Elizabeth David's Christmas contains around 150 recipes and is designed to take the strain out of providing festive food. From mincepies, stuffings, and turkey, to simple first courses, party dishes, and a range of desserts, all the classics are here for the making.

Celebrate!

Sheila Lukins

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Time to celebrate! With one purpose only-to bring family and friends together-Sheila Lukins presents Celebrate!, a full-color extravaganza of a book with 46 festive menus, 350 foolproof, with-a-twist recipes in the Silver Palate style, 200 color photographs, and throughout, the passion that's made her one of America's most creative cooks and best-loved food writers.

Here are menus to re-energize traditional holidays-for Thanksgiving serve Maple Ginger Turkey with a piquant Cornbread Chorizo Stuffing. Menus that will turn impromptu gatherings into yearly events--a hearty selection of bowl foods for Super Bowl Sunday, a red-white-and-blue menu for a Memorial Day barbecue, an easy weekday Cozy Dinner for Two. And menus that will inspire whole new reasons to throw a party--The Big Raise (featuring a Blushing Lobster Cocktail), When Spring Has Sprung, The First Summer Tomatoes, a Celebrate Morocco Dinner with Moorish Carrot Soup, Lamb Tagine, Orange Flower Sorbet. Celebrate! is a blueprint for joy, making any time the right time to celebrate and showing just how to pull it off.

Williams-Sonoma Entertaining: Christmas Entertaining (Williams-Sonoma Entertaining)

Georgeanne Brennan

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Christmas Entertaining

Christmas is a time for entertaining, and for the host that means hours spent planning, shopping, cooking, and decorating the house. With a good guidebook in hand, the work of holiday entertaining can be one of the joys of the season. In Williams-Sonoma Christmas Entertaining, you'll discover everything you need to know to welcome guests into your home with style and ease.

Organized around six festive holiday occasions, this book provides complete menus and decorating ideas, all designed to fit the way people like to entertain and spend time together today: a cozy Fireside Cocktail Party; an Italian Christmas Eve supper; a chic Christmas Eve in the City; a lavish, traditional New England Christmas; a sparkling Snow Country Breakfast; and a casual New Year's Day Open House.

There are some fifty easy-to-master recipes for everything from make-ahead finger food to appetizers, main courses, and desserts. The beautiful color photography and step-by-step tyle and drink ideas make it easy to create elegant centerpieces, signature beverages, and delightful welcoming touches that transform the table and the house. helpful reference sections provide guidelines on tableware, setting up a buffet, selecting wine, and more.

You can follow the detailed work plans included in each chapter to create a complete party, or mix and match recipes and ideas to assemble your menus. Either way, you'll find everything you need for hosting memorable holiday get-togethers with style and confidence.