200 Christmas Recipes: Hamlyn All Color

January 5th, 2011 |

Author: John

200 Christmas Recipes: Hamlyn All Color

The essential companion for a mouthwatering Christmas, Hamlyn AllColor Cookbook: 200 Christmas Recipes contains delicious ideas for festive mealtimes, both traditional and alternative.

Why not impress friends and family with roast goose with spiced apples and figs, roasted parsnips with thyme butter, or perhaps some ginger and hazelnut ice cream? The book also contains recipes for classic cakes and cookies, edible gifts and even leftover turkey – allowing you to banish those endless turkey sandwiches!

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Christmas With Victoria : Decorations, Gifts, and Recipes for the Holidays

Devotees of romantic Victoriana are generally devoted as well to Victoria magazine, turning to it regularly for decorating, entertaining, and style ideas. Christmas with Victoria collects the year’s best, centered on the holiday theme.

Gorgeous photographs proclaim, in the words of editor-in-chief Peggy Kennedy, “the many moods of Christmas: nostalgic, pastoral, elegant, or … pretty.” In trademark Victoria style, the expected touches all make their appearance; the ornaments, trimmings, displays, and table settings all feature such elements as yards of pastel ribbons, lots of lacy flourishes, arrays of antique crockery and vintage flatware, the patina of the weathered farmhouse, the gleam of silver candlesticks.

An extensive food section (comprising about half the book) supplies tempting recipes for an afternoon open house, a full-fledged winter feast, and a multitude of baked-goods gifts. There’s really not much substance to the project component–a few ornaments and stockings, some sachets and garlands, and the like–but everything, as Peggy Kennedy declares, is very pretty. –Amy Handy

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Family Circle Big Book of Christmas: Great Holiday Recipes, Gifts & Decorating