Christmas Cooking For Dummies [Paperback]

Dede Wilson CCP (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 29, 2001

Look no further for tips and recipes for whipping up a dazzling array of delicious holiday meals — without stress!

Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year -- and Americans traditionally love to celebrate the season with food, food, and more food. This easy guide shows cooks of every generation how to plan and prepare scrumptious seasonal treats. It includes:

• 100 delicious recipes for hassle-free holiday meals, including Warm White Bean Dip, Four-Cheese
• Spinach Lasagne, and Chocolate Truffle Tart
• Tips, checklists, and charts, plus step-by-step guides and shopping lists for special holiday meals, including a Christmas Tree-Trimming Party
• A special section on Christmas decorating and food gifts from the kitchen
• 16 pages of color photos featuring holiday meal recipes and kitchen-made gifts and decorations

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From the Back Cover

Includes over 100 foolproof recipes plus meal-planning guides

Give yourself a Christmas gift — stress-free holiday cooking!

Cooking for Christmas doesn't have to ruin your holiday spirit. With this book you'll prepare great meals for holiday parties, family feasts, even shopping-night dinners — plus make irresistible food gifts and festive food decorations. You'll find food shoping tips, cooking shortcuts, and delicious recipes for Baked Fresh Ham with Herbs, Roast Prime Rib, Classic Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Truffle Tart, and more!

Discover how to:

• Fit cooking into your Christmas to-do-list
• Stock Your Christmas pantry
• Adjust menus for different-size groups
• Cook simple dishes or go "all out"
• Include the kids in holiday preparations

About the Author

Dede Wilson, CCP, contributes to Bon Appétit and Pastry and Design magazine and to NBC's Todayshow. She is also the Food and Entertaining expert for CanDoWoman.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 358 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (September 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764554077
• ISBN-13: 978-0764554070
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,765,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dede Wilson is a popular food writer and television personality with her own public television show, Seasonings with Dede Wilson, in wide distribution throughout the U.S. and Canada. An additional show, The Holiday Table, began airing in Fall 2006 and will run through 2009; the 90-minute Holiday Pledge Special that she produced for PBS in 2005 was re-broadcast throughout the holiday season in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Wilson has been a spokesperson for KitchenAid, making frequent live and televised appearances around the country for KitchenAid products. She is also a prolific cookbook author and a contributing editor for Bon Appetit magazine. Wilson has appeared on all the major TV networks, and has been invited frequently to appear on shows including Today, The View, and Live with Regis and Kelly. She has also appeared on QVC to sell her cookbooks, has been featured on Bon Appetit podcasts, and makes personal appearances at Bon Appetit events around the country. Currently she hosts a monthly Bon Appetit segment on the CBS's Early Show.

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FOR EVERYONE'S FIRST CHRISTMAS FEAST!, November 2, 2001

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Sandra D. Peters "Seagull Books" (Prince Edward Island, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christmas Cooking For Dummies (Paperback)

If this is the first Christmas you have actually had to prepare the festive feast, this book is for you. It even tells you what to do with that odd-shaped turkey, like which side is up and which side is down, how to truss the critter up and where the stuffing goes. My son-in-law, who loves to cook but is lacking a lot in patience and aptitude, shocked the heck out of our entire family the first year he married my daughter, by coming to the dining room table with chain saw in hand and commenced to carve the Christmas turkey! Considering my children were raised in a rather conservative, refined environment, this event certainly left many mouths hanging open at the dining room table! How I wish this book had been published about ten years ago. (He is still cooking and basting, by the way, but has traded the chain saw for less ominous utensils.)

Like all the "Dummy" books, this one will bring a chuckle or two but at the same time save the reader from making some drastic mistakes when preparing the Christmas feast. For all novices to the Christmas kitchen, this book is for you and worth a five-star rating.