Busy People S Fun Fast Festive Christmas Cookbook

This Christmas cookbook and planning guide features simple-yet-festive recipes, decorating tips, gift ideas, and more! Dawn Hall knows how hard it is to prepare all the Christmas goodies and entertain guests on a budget while juggling an already busy schedule. In this holiday edition of her popular Busy People’s series, Dawn adapts her seven-ingredients or less, thirty-minutes or less formula for the Christmas season. Jam-packed with creative, low-fat recipes, this comprehensive cookbook is handily organized into menus complete with grocery lists, each listed according to various holiday meals. A special section provides creative recipes for leftovers including Turkey a la King over stuffing. You’ll also find recipe plans for cookie swaps, edible and affordable teacher’s gifts, an elegant Christmas eve buffet, and so much more. Make merry with delicious recipes such as: Yuletide Pork Roast with Lemon Pepper and Rosemary, Cranberry Salsa, Busy Holiday Bruschetta, Festive Frittata, Broccoli and Tomato Trifle, Snowball Cheese Balls, Cranberry-Walnut Mini Scones

This cookbook features a full range of simple, delicious recipes for home cooks who are crunched for time—and cash! In The Busy People’s fast and Frugal Cookbook, Dawn Hall shows you how to prepare home cooked meals that are as healthy and satisfying as they are easy on your budget. Each dish includes a quick-reference grocery list and easy-to-read nutritional information. Dawn designed every recipe to require only seven ingredients or fewer, and to be prepared in thirty minutes or less. The recipes also lend themselves to easy substitutions, so you can improvise with whatever is available in your kitchen. Enjoy quick, inexpensive dishes such as: Hawaiian Sweet Potato Soup Candied Vegetables Chipped Beef on Toast Eggs with Sauerkraut Maple-Glazed Ham Steaks

Make an entire meal in minutes with more than one hundred fast, fool-proof menus that are healthy, satisfying, and delicious. There’s no better way to end a busy day than with a super-simple, low-fat, heart-smart meal that only takes thirty minutes to make. Each meal in this can’t-miss cookbook presents step-by-step instructions for the entire menu. With all the elements perfectly timed, gone are the days of letting the main course get cold while the vegetables finish cooking. In addition, each menu features a list of handy pantry items, a list of cooking pans and bowls, and a grocery list arranged by supermarket department. Also included is a nutritional analysis of each recipe.

Betty Crocker updates a beloved classic, with more than 200 recipes and 125 photos that showcase the best of the Christmas season. From new cookies and cocktails to fresh ideas for main dishes, appetizers and gifts from the kitchen, this is the one-stop book for every cook Christmas brings out the cook in everyone, whether you are making appetizers and drinks for casual entertaining, a show-stopper meal for family, food gifts for friends, or special cakes and desserts that only come out once a year. In this delightful seasonal cookbook, Betty Crocker combines comforting tradition with new ideas—from simple Sugar Cookies and Roast Turkey with Thyme to Roasted Brined Duck with Chipotle Glaze and Holiday Aloo Gobi. In addition, there are helpful make-ahead tips and special features to add to your holiday cheer. Learn how to set up a home bar and make an Elf-Tini, how to host a fondue party, fun ways to wrap and give cookies, how to create new Christmas traditions, and more. This enticing compendium will be a go-to cookbook year after year, proving that while Christmas is busy, it can also be delicious fun.

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Recipes, gifts, and crafts for the merriest family Christmas ever It's easy to get caught up in the planning and shopping that so often surround the busy holiday season and forget what's at the true heart of the holiday: family and friends.

Gatherings is festive inspiration. Part cookbook, part party planner, part crafty idea book, this is the complete guide to making Christmas special for all ages. Beautifully illustrated with color photography, this handsome volume helps busy families recapture the simple pleasures of the season. Donata Maggipinto, an expert in the art of entertaining, reinvents familiar traditions and adds her own fabulous touches to everything from sweet and savory holiday dishes to festive table decorations, ingenious gifts, and so much more. Her easy party plans each include complete menus, ideas for decorations, and heartfelt tips for making the most of time spent with family and friends. A White Christmas Eve Dinner features a holiday meal with all the fixings on a table set with a miniature village in faux snow. The Old-Fashioned Christmas Breakfast brings the family together over Gingerbread Shakes. And the Gift Wrapping Get-Together is a delicious way to sneak in time with girlfriends while crossing a holiday chore off the list. Packed with satisfying crafts that are fun to make and give, this handbook to the holiday season also includes family-friendly activities perfect for winter afternoons. The modern-day guide to timeless good cheer, Christmas Family Gatherings helps make the holidays the way they were meant to be: magical.

Snowflakes are swirling, carolers are singing and shoppers are crowding into shops...Christmas is coming! If you're like us, you'd love to recreate the holiday magic you remember from homes growing up, but don't have all day to spend in the kitchen. I'll be Home for Christmas Cookbook is filled with simple-to-make recipes for every festive occasion. For Christmas morning breakfast, serve Christmas Sausage Soufflé and Overnight Sticky Buns. After sledding or cutting down the tree, warm everyone up with mugs of Yellow Pea Soup. An open-house buffet with Ambrosia Cheese Dip and Grandma's Cocktail Nibbles is perfect for merrymaking with friends. Busy-day dinners are a snap with Granny's Baked Macaroni & Cheese or Mom's One-Pot Chicken Supper. Make the big day special with Nonna's Christmas Eve Spaghetti, Mama's Baked Brown Sugar Ham or Tangy Glazed Chicken. Ginger-Orange Cranberries and Corn & Broccoli Casserole round out a festive menu. What we all remember most about holidays with family is the desserts, right? Try favorites like Cranberry Cream Pie and Apple Spice Cake...yum! Cookies are a must, so we've rounded up Sugar Doodle Drops and Chocolate Gingerbread Men. They're so much fun to make and eat! You'll also find sweet memories of holidays gone by, plus clever tips for sharing Christmas with your kids, grandkids and those young at heart!