Holiday Entertaining

Looking for something new to serve up during the holidays? Look no further! Holiday Entertaining Essentials: Party Recipes is a delicious selection of tasty party favorites that’ll make your celebrations even merrier. From Champagne Scallops to Plum Pudding Pie, these festive dishes will really get things rocking around the Christmas tree. Merry Christmas and enjoy!

Looking for something new to serve up during the holidays? Look no further! Holiday Entertaining Essentials: Festive Cocktails is a delicious selection of tasty drinks that’ll make your celebrations even merrier. From Gingerbread Hot Toddies to Holly Berry Cocktails, these festive concoctions will really get things rocking around the Christmas tree. Merry Christmas and enjoy!

Celebrations call for meals that impress, and with thousands of meticulously tested recipes to our name, the experts at Cook's Illustrated are no strangers to pulling off a great holiday feast. In this timeless collection, we have gathered 75 spectacular, foolproof recipes from over 20 years of testing to help you confidently pull off a holiday meal to remember. Chapters devoted to each course (Starters, Centerpieces, Shareable Sides, and Sweet Endings) make planning easy, whether you're ­feasting with extended family, hosting a small-scale celebration, or simply bringing along a standout dish. Reimaging the Thanksgiving table? Find that new go-to side, such as Roasted Cauliflower Gratin or Wild Rice Pilaf with Pecans and Cranberries. Baking Christmas cookies or other treats for gift-giving? You'll find the perfect cookie recipes (butter and gingerbread) as well as a foolproof method for producing luscious Chocolate Truffles. Hosting an intimate New Year's Eve dinner? Our showstopper recipes, whether a Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake, Italian-style Porchetta, or Boneless Rib Roast with Yorkshire Pudding, guarantee success. Invite Cook's Illustrated to your holiday table this year and watch new traditions take root.

ON SALE NOW FOR A LIMITED TIME THROUGH December 31, 2020! Impress guests and still be able to indulge yourself with the CarbSmart Low-Carb & Gluten-Free Holiday Entertaining cookbook! If you’ve spent too many holidays slaving over sugar-laden desserts that you couldn’t even eat just to impress your guests, listen up: there’s no need to make food you can’t consume any longer when you’ve got CarbSmart Low-Carb & Gluten-Free Holiday Entertaining on your side. Learn how to create gorgeous dishes that will wow even the pickiest crowd that you can eat as well! After all, there’s nothing worse than being forced to nibble on a boring celery stick from the vegetable tray because there’s nothing else you can eat. Now you too can indulge in delicious appetizers, cocktails and desserts–that just happen to be low-carb and gluten-free. Now you can have your holiday and eat it too—and throw a party your guests will be talking about for years to come—all at the same time. CarbSmart Low-Carb & Gluten-Free Holiday Entertaining makes treating your guests to a delicious and healthy gathering easier than ever. From breakfasts and brunches to luncheons, dinners and cocktail parties, there are recipes and entertaining tips for every type of holiday occasion, from Thanksgiving to Valentine’s Day. What You’ll Get CarbSmart Low-Carb & Gluten Free Holiday Entertaining provides you with 90 mouth-watering recipes, hundreds of cooking and party tips and ideas, an extensive overview of ingredient usage and substitutions, a handy guide with information on where to purchase specialty ingredients you may not be able to find in stores, a table of sweetener equivalents, a vocabulary glossary for beginners and more. The book is ideal for both seasoned and novice cooks, so no matter your culinary experience, you’ll find an easy-to-use collection of recipes and tips that just about anyone can follow. Types of Recipes Included: • Breakfast • Appetizers / Hors d’Oeuvres • Breads & Crackers • Main Dishes • Soups/Stews • Salads • Side Dishes • Cocktails / Drinks / Beverages • Desserts A Sampling of Included Recipes • Wild Blueberry Belgian Waffles • Crab Frittata • Shrimp Dill Dip • Bleu Cheese Bacon Bites • Bacon-Wrapped Fig Jalapeno Peppers • Swiss Pecan Crisps • Roasted Herb-Brined Turkey and Gravy • Flank Steak Pinwheels • Garlic-Stuffed Rib Roast with Coffee Rub • Slow Cooker Lamb Stew • Creamy Butternut Squash and Roasted Garlic Soup • Lemon Beet Salad • Vegetable Latkes • Eggplant Involtini with Pesto Filling • Parsnip, Roasted Garlic and Three Cheese Gratin • Toasty Chai-ppucino • Low-Carb Hot Cocoa • Pearberry Sparklers • Pecan Latte Gateau • Chocolate Raspberry Mouse • and much, much more! Get a Leg Up This Holiday Season Start your holiday season off right. Order CarbSmart Low-Carb & Gluten-Free Holiday Entertaining and you’ll have all the tools you need to host successful holiday gatherings with recipes so delicious you’ll barely believe they’re healthy! Praise for CarbSmart Low-Carb & Gluten-Free Holiday Entertaining “I love the recipes in this book! Whether you are the casual, backyard, card table and folding chairs type of entertainer or the tablecloth, fine china, and champagne type of person, you’ll find a plethora of original recipes to fit your needs. This cookbook is proof positive that one doesn’t have to partake in the holiday junkfest to indulge in decadent, festive real food dishes. Misty and Tracey have pulled together a fine collection of recipes that anybody will enjoy. The biggest surprise is that one is getting much more than just a cookbook. From a discussion of good fats/bad fats, to a comprehensive sweetener conversion chart, to nutritional advice about types of food, to maintaining a well-stocked kitchen, this book is saturated with useful information.” —Tiffany Rangel, www.Deliciously-Thin.com “I made the mistake of reviewing this book without eating breakfast. Just the table of contents is making me ravenous! Bleu Cheese Bacon Bites? Cauliflower, Sausage and Gruyère Soup? Mixed Baby Greens with Strawberry Champagne Vinaigrette? Sautéed Chicken with Olives, Capers, and Roasted Lemons? Are you kidding me?! Incredible! Tracey and Misty have come up with a dazzling variety of recipes just in time for the holiday party season. If you want to serve your guests dishes that will cement your reputation as a brilliant hostess while staying on track nutritionally, you need this book. You need it badly. CarbSmart Low-Carb & Gluten-Free Holiday Entertaining offers considerably more than scrumptious, imaginative recipes. It’s a clear and comprehensive guide to low carbohydrate, Paleo, and primal eating, offering useful information about fats, proteins, dairy, and more. It’s also the perfect primer if you’re new to this way of eating. I guarantee wherever you are in your dietary lifestyle, you will find this book a big help. But the food! Dear heaven, the food! Excuse me, gotta go eat now.” —Dana Carpender, Author, Fat Fast Cookbook and 500 Low-Carb Recipes “With almost 100 recipes, CarbSmart Low-Carb & Gluten-Free Holiday Entertaining by Tracey Rollison & Misty Humphrey, is a kitchen essential for when you need to entertain guests and you want to serve delicious dishes that are low carb and gluten free. The recipes are easy to prepare without relying the usual processed foods. Original and tantalizing recipes like Pepperoni Chip Dippers and Swiss Pecan Crisps jumped right off the page. These are both creative gluten free alternatives to crackers. This book is perfect for people who have struggled with balancing the desire to provide guests with scrumptious dishes and yet maintain the healthy goal of celebrating the holidays without added sugar or gluten.” — Dianne Rishikof, MS, RDN, LDN, DianneRishikof.com “Not only is this great cookbook bursting with page after page of mouthwateringly scrumptious low carb and gluten free recipes, it also contains a host of super useful information about the low carb lifestyle and enlightening first hand accounts of how the authors turned their lives around by changing their diet. This collection of delicious recipes will really open your eyes to a whole world of ideas for entertaining without the carbs and will leave your guests begging you for your kitchen secrets. So all that is left for me to say is... roll on winter!” —Ade Rowswell, My Big Fat Low Carb Life on Facebook

Looking for something new to serve up during the holidays? Look no further! Holiday Entertaining Essentials: Dips and Appetizers is a delicious selection of tasty party favorites that’ll make your celebrations even merrier. From Layered Shrimp and Pesto Dip to Vegetable Empanadas, these festive dishes will really get things rocking around the Christmas tree. Merry Christmas and enjoy!

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Shortlisted for the 2019 Taste Canada Awards Get set for holiday season success, with more than 100 savoury and sweet recipes from celebrity baker and chef Anna Olson. When does the festive season begin for you? For Anna, it's with the first pumpkin pie of the year. Pumpkin pie isn't something she bakes on any old evening, so it signifies something very special when she does: the start of the holidays! In Anna's house, the holidays are a time for coming together with family and friends, celebrating traditions, and making some new ones, too. In this festive cookbook, Anna shares the recipes she most loves to make during the holiday season--for occasions like a festive brunch, entertaining a crowd, a cozy supper, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, an elegant New Year's evening--and sensational sweets such as holiday cookies, celebratory centerpiece cakes, festive pies and tarts, fancy bars and slices, and much more! With every recipe is a spoonful of practical and supportive advice, including menu planning, make-ahead preparation, and hundreds of other hints and tips. Set for the Holidays will help add sparkle and take away stress from your holidays, so you can navigate the season with confidence!