Essential Mormon Celebrations: Secret Combinations for Holidays, Homecomings, Potluck Dinners, and More [Spiral-bound]

Julie Badger Jensen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2005

The Essential Mormon Cookbook was a runaway bestseller! Now you can find more secret combinations for your favorite foods in a new collection of home-style recipes. Essential Mormon Celebrations contains recipes for traditional holiday meals with sections like "The Night Before Christmas", "Easter Dinner", and "New Year's Brunch".

This volume also includes recipes and ideas for the nontraditional parties and celebrations that are so much a part of our culture: tailgate picnics, wedding and baby showers, homecomings, Pioneer Day commemorations, family reunions, and much, much more.

More than 200 recipes are divided by seasons and events in this second volume of irresistible Mormon comfort food.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Jensen follows up her beloved Essential Mormon Cookbook with this handy, spiral-bound hardcover. Like the first book, it's organized by the four seasons, but this sequel is preoccupied less with day-to-day cooking than with special events. There are recipes for holidays both major (Christmas, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving) and minor (Mother's Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day), as well as scattered occasions throughout the year: bridal and baby showers, a missionary homecoming, a graduation and a tailgating party, among other events. A few of the first book's recipes are repurposed here: orange rolls, glazed carrots and peas ("a family favorite," Jensen explains), and wassail all put in a sophomore appearance. But most of the recipes are new, including some international fare: there's a pan-Asian menu for New Year's Eve, a Tex-Mex feast for Cinco de Mayo, and an Irish dinner for Saint Patrick's Day. Despite the international forays, Jensen clearly favors stick-to-your-ribs American comfort food that is easy to prepare and made with ingredients a family may already have on hand. You don't have to be Mormon to appreciate this helpful book, though there are nods to Latter-day Saints culinary traditions, including suggestions for food for Pioneer Day (when Mormons remember their pioneer ancestors each July 24), and a menu for "conference dinner," a make-ahead meal for those two weekends a year that Mormons all over the world watch General Conference by satellite. And of course, Jell-O-a cultural staple for many American Mormons-features prominently in several recipes.
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About the Author

Julie Badger Jensen has had a lifetime passion for cooking and entertaining. She began a recipe box at age 8 with the entry of "Lovable Lime Jell-O." When she was a young teenager, her first published recipe appeared in the Deseret News column. She graduated from the University of Utah and has been the food editor of Utah Home and Lifestyles and Meridian Magazine.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 136 pages
• Publisher: Deseret Book Co (November 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590384784
• ISBN-13: 978-1590384787
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #632,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good Addition to anyones Recipe collection, February 13, 2008

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Richard F. Randolph "rfrmac" (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Mormon Celebrations: Secret Combinations for Holidays, Homecomings, Potluck Dinners, and More (Spiral-bound)

The only thing I would like to say about this book is that the recipes are good well tested recipes. I appreciate the time and energy that went into the making of this cookbook. It is well laid out and easy to follow and use. Thank You for putting this and your other book together.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Swear By Julie B. Jensen, October 30, 2010

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tysongela - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Mormon Celebrations: Secret Combinations for Holidays, Homecomings, Potluck Dinners, and More (Spiral-bound)

Both Essential Mormon Cookbook and Essential Mormon Celebrations have given me my reputation as a good cook.

Anything you make from either cookbook will taste like you imagine it should. And it really does.

As a connoisseur of "feed-the-family" cookbooks, I can't speak highly enough of either of these books.